9. Digg
Digg is a popular social news website that features the best of articles, photos, videos and other original contents currently trending online.
The contents (stories, articles and others) on the platform are called digg.
Digg allows its registered members to vote for these contents so as to promote them.
It was founded in November 2004 as an experiment to aggregate the most interesting and trending news and stories. These are offered to some specific target audience on the internet.
Now the platform has become very popular and that’s because some great feature got to be incorporated into it. Such features include a curated homepage, awesome interface, friends’ lists, and the ability to digg any story. Users can also find, read, and share the most interesting and talked about stories on the internet.
Access www.digg.com
10. Ning
Ning is a very popular online social media networking platform. It is arguably the largest online community building platform.
Ning allows individual users and organizations to create their own social networks. Interestingly, this takes just a few minutes.
The platform was launched in October 2005 and currently has over 120 million social websites running on it.
Ning is a premium platform with different packages to meet the needs and budget of users. However, users can take 14 days free trial, after which they can upgrade to paid accounts.
Access www.ning.com
11. Yelp
The name Yelp is a contraction of “Yellow Pages”.
It is a social networking platform that publishes crowd-sourced reviews about brands and businesses.
The businesses reviewed on Yelp by users include shops and grocery stores, restaurants, Entertainment and other services.
If you are a business owner, Yelp can help you to easily connect with your potential customers and rapidly grow your business.
Yes, because the platform has over 70 million users. In addition to that, it is commonly used as a local research website by many people.
Access www.yelp.com
12. Tagged
Tagged is a widely-used, popular social networking website. It is a new people-meeting app that allows users to initiate conversations with people in their local city and those from other parts of the world.
The app, which currently has to 50 million downloads on Google Play alone, allows users to chill and play games with millions of other users around the world.
In addition to the above, Tagged allows registered users to share virtual gifts and tags . It also suggests people with similar interests and helps them to easily connect.
Tagged was founded in 2004 and has its users scattered in different countries of the world.
Access www.tagged.com
13. Squidoo
HubPages is the company that acquired Squidoo in August 2014. Until then, Squidoo was article-writing and revenue-generating platform. The written articles were called “lenses”.
The site grew rapidly in popularity. So much so that by 2010, registered users had created as much as 1.5 million lenses covering different subjects of interest.
Squidoo started in October 2005 and became very popular partly because of its search features and social networking capabilities.
Access www.squidoo.com
14. Scribd
Scribd is a Web 2.0 based ebook and audiobook subscription service. It is a document-sharing site that allows users to post documents in various formats. The posted documents are embeded into a web page using the iPaper format.
The platform, which was founded in 2007, hosts over 60 million documents on its open publishing platform. Scribd also publishes research papers and other academic contents.
Access www.scribd.com