• List, rate and write reviews about the books you are reading or have read in the past.
• Browse what other iReaders are reading and what they are saying about books you’re interested in.
• Find iReaders with similar reading interests as you and learn which books they recommend.
• Have fun with books! And who wouldn’t want that?
• With iRead Anywhere, you can take your bookshelf with you anywhere! for example, myspace page, blog, homepage

Only 8 months old, iRead is already one of the largest book community on facebook with over one million registered users and over 20 million books added.

Are those guys reinventing the wheel here?… well, hopefully not. So, what’s different about Protagonize? Well, it allows a bit more flexibility all-around than the old implementations did. The ability to read and browse stories, branches (the individual posts that make up an addventure) and chapters is open to everyone, with or without an account. Protagonize members can post a story, branch or chapter wherever they want (registration is free, of course), as well as comment on author profiles or story fragments, and keep track of their own posts.

Members also have access to a bookshelf-style interface that allows them to flag favourite authors and stories, or add markers to track specific story branches or chapters, so as to not lose their place when reading a story. They believe that these are probably the handiest features of the bunch, as members can track their favourite authors, see what those authors have posted recently, easily navigate to new content, and the site will provide the user with suggested reading the entire time.

Readers can rate stories, which translate into author ratings based on average rating for all of an author’s stories. Each author has their own personal profile page that’s visible to everyone. The profile page aggregates each author’s content and allows readers to see similar authors, related stories, etc. Relationships between user-created content is maintained mostly via a combination of story categories and tags, though we may expand on that in the future.

To top everything off, the homepage serves as a giant content aggregator for the entire site, listing off both hot and top rated stories, providing random snippets of content extracted from story sections throughout the site, as well as recent activity, newly posted comments, top story tags presented in a cloud format, and other relevant information. Both stories and authors have their own aggregator pages as well, which act as a more focused breakdown of the higher-level topics you’ll find on the homepage.

A variety of RSS feeds are also available, such as hot stories, top rated stories, recent activity, and feeds for each author and story posted. hope this will allow the site to attract a broader community of authors looking to create collaborative, interactive fiction.

ActiveCiti lets you organise these things effortlessly and within minutes. It also, removes the hassle of notifying all your invitees if your event changes or gets cancelled, because it does it automatically for you. Event though the website is called ActiveCiti, it is not specific to any city and you can use it from anywhere in the world to plan your events. ActiveCiti is entirely free to use.

My Neighbourhoods is the online community with a difference. Just like other online communities, it allows you to chat to and get to know different people, view their profiles, share ideas and thoughts, but unlike most online communities, these friendships don’t need to remain virtual. You’ll be talking to your immediate neighbours, to people who live in your street, or in your area.

The objective of the founders is to improve life in local areas and provide a means for people to help each other with the big and small things in life.

BuddyFetch is a search engine that allows people to search for fellow IM, social networking, and Internet dating users. BuddyFetch searches multiple providers :

43 Things, AIM, BEBO, BlackPlanet, Blurty, BookOfMatches, Digg, Espin, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Google Talk, Greatest Journal, HI5, Hot or Not, ICQ Messenger, IMVU, Jabber Messenger, Jaiku, LavaPlace, LiveJournal, Meetup, MocoSpace, MSN Messenger, Myspace, NetLog, OkCupid, Paltalk, PlentyofFish, Skype, Stickam, StumbleUpon, Tagged, Tribe, Twitter, VOX, WAYN, Webdate, Xanga, YahooIM, YouTube, Zwinky.

BuddyFetch was created because there was no central directory that allowed searches for IM/Social Networking/Dating users across multiple providers, In conjunction with the fact that some directories would only allow you to search for screen names of IM users that were presently online. BuddyFetch also had vision to improve the quality of searches from the directories.

This startup is looking for an investor.

Studymee offers new and surprising features daily. Meet your friends and get to know people from around the world. Present your multi-faceted self, with the security of a 3-leveled privacy feature. Celebrate yourself and your community as one big party.

Studymee is your accees to worldwide studies – and your personal pocket study. Learn from and with others; give your knowledge and profit from collective inspiration. Compare your performance with the skills of others and be informed about need-to-knows, about other universities and cities worldwide.

Studymee connects you directly with the economy. The traineeship supports you with your diploma thesis, is the bridge to a relevant job and serves as a guide through your studies – find the right company or let others contact you directly through your business profile.

Studymee, probably the first worldwide WEB 2.0 portal, reaches a new level of social community networking for closed target groups. Content, functionality and benefits provide a total new platform of international communication; a worldwide exchange of knowledge on a simple, safe and accessible basis – for far-reaching experiences in both student and business life. Studymee is located in Berlin and entirely privately financed by its five successful founders.

In addition to all these great options, SocialSplash.com gives back to the user, unlike all other social networking websites, you earn the so called “Splash Points” which you can convert into gifts. I have never come across such a great concept offered by a community website like that. Whatever you do on the website, like uploading photos, creating a blog or a group, or even use the forums, you get Splash Points, and the more you collect, the better, because if you get a good number of points you can get a gift from the Splash Store.

Each registered SocialSplash member can earn Splash Points by actively using our website. Each day you can earn points by doing simple things like uploading new photos, blogging, communicating with others, and more. Splash Points can then be exchanged for cool free gifts.

Mark: 7/10

Why would I use this?
We built Toluu because we knew that in our small group of geeky friends each of us had a couple feeds the others in the group would enjoy, we just didn’t know which ones! We didn’t want to be the guy who recommended a feed someone else already had, or worse, assume that someone already had that feed and never mention it. Toluu makes it less awkward to find out what your friends read and enjoy.

Is Toluu a feed reader?
No. We think there are dozens of fantastic feed readers out there right now and we know there are more to come. We like using our feed reader of choice and we bet you like your feed reader too. We see Toluu as a thin service that sits above your feed reader. A new way to ‘feed’ your feed reader (sorry for the pun). We do have a feed page, but it is truncated and is intended to serve as a taste of the feed, a quick way to determine if you are actually interested.

The initial public release of bandFIND.com comes packed with more than just social networking features. “The reason social networking is largely looked at by the professional community as nothing more than an advertising medium is simply because up until now it has served no real purpose. The social networking model has simply been an avenue to catch up with old friends, share media, and find dates,” says Chris Purifoy, the founder of bandFIND.com. “I believe that the model is fairly young. The possibilities for social networking to expand into the world of professional ‘utility’ are astronomical. At bandFIND, we consider ourselves a ‘social utility’, offering a line of impressive services for musicians, bands, and professionals built around and within the community that a social network provides. The social platform is just the tip of the iceberg.”