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Internet Forums

Chat
E-Journals
E-Mail
Mailing Lists
Newsgroups


The links established for the rapid transfer of technical data are more and more being used for interpersonal communication.

John Ziman

We are not trapped in individual solipsistic hells (or need not be), but invited to engage in a truly human dialogue, one which combines collectivity with individual responsibility.

Hilary Putnam

For forums about the internet, see Internet Forums, Periodicals, and Programmes

AboutConference.com

Academici Knowledge Networks

ActionForum.com

AllConferences.Net

Ask Experts Questions for Free! (Ask Me Help Desk, Venice, California)

Assembly - Home Page (Nerd World Media)

ASTI Penpals Returns

The Attorneys Forum (Brian Wilson et al.)

BAAGZ (Exalead Social Network Service)

The BBS Corner

The BBS Corner Telnet BBS Guide

BBS: A Documentary about Bulletin Board Systems (Jason Scott)

The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites (Nicole B. Ellison et al., Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(4), Jul 2007)

Beyond Email! Wikis, Blogs and Social Networking Software
(Brian Kelly, UKOLN)

Bizwiki | The UK Business Wiki

Blogs and Social Media Forum (UK)

BoardReader - Message Board Search Engine

Bootstrap Institute (Douglas Engelbart et al.)

CaringBridge: Free online service connecting family and friends (Eagan, Minnesota)

CellClients (Toronto)

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium (Larry Sanger et al.)

-- Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians

Club Penguin (Kelowna, BC)

CNN Interactive Community Index

CogNexus Institute (dir. Jeffrey Conklin)

The Connection Forums (WBUR, Boston NPR)

The Contact Consortium: Contact, Culture and Community in Virtual World CyberSpace

Conversate (Nick Nassar et al., Participatory Politics Foundation)

CraigsList (Craig Newmark et al., San Francisco)

Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidlines on Online Social -- and Educational -- Networking (National School Boards Association, Alexandria, Virginia, 18 Jul 2007) PDF

Cybercafe Guide (Cyberia)

The CyberCafé Ring

Cybercafes.com - Internet Cyber Cafes Guide

Cyber InterCaptive Cybercafe Database Search Engine

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media (blog by Matthew Hurst, Microsoft)

Del.icio.us (New York)

Discussion Forums at WWWomen

Discussion Search (Lycos Discussions Web Search)

The Dotcomrade: The Many Faces of Online Friendship (Brian Boyd, The New Atlantis 14:124-6, Fall 2006)

East Bay Technologies (Pleasanton, California)

Electric Minds (Howard Rheingold)

Elgg Open Source Social Software (Ben Werdmuller & David Tosh, Oxford)

Eons.com | 50 plus everything... (Jeff Taylor et al.)

eSnips.com (Sunnyvale, California)

eXpress It! (James Ryan et al., Mobileplay, Los Angeles)

Facebook! (Mark Zuckerberg et al., Brookline, Massachusetts)

Facebook Compendium

FaceReviews.com - Facebook Application Reviews, etc. (ed. Rodney Rumford)

Finding Information Forums (Internet Sleuth)

First workshop on Wikipedia research (Jakob Voss, WikiSym 2006, Odense, Aug 2006)

Forum One

ForumHosts Informational Pages on Interactive Web Conferencing

Frappr Maps - Group Maps for Online Communities

Free-Conversant (Macrobyte Resources, Mystic, Connecticut)

FriendFeed Social Networking Service (Paul Buchheit et al.)

Friends:Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services (Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University Library)

Gather (Boston)

Geniusfind Chats and Forums

Global Voices Online (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School)

GNRT: Group Communication Tools (TERENA)

Google Groups

Groupspace.org | The Home Site for Deme, A Platform for Online Deliberation (PIECE, the Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement, Stanford University)

The Guide to Select BBSs on Internet (SBI)

Habbo Hotel (Sulake Canada)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Official Earth Edition
(Douglas Adams et al., h2g2, BBC Online)

How Americans use instant messaging (Eulynn Shiu & Amanda Lenhart, Pew Internet, 1 Sep 2004) PDF

How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko (Dirk Riehle, WikiSym 2006, Aug 2006)

HTML Tips for Message Boards

HyperNews

Identical Twins Network

IET Discover: Collaborative intelligence in science, engineering and technology (Institute of Engineering and Technology, UK)

Imbee Social Networking and Blogging for Kids
(Jeanette Symons, San Francisco)

Imeem! (Palo Alto, California)

Information Technology Forum and Social Networking
(Tony Morosini et al., Techocracy.Net)

The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym)

Internet Café Guide

Internet Web Text: Connecting with People (John December)

The Interplanetary Post Office (Doug Dafoe)

JForum - Java Forum Software

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (Indiana University)

Klostu.com (Pidgin Technologies, Tel Aviv)

Legal Issues for Social Networking Sites and Users (Kevin Fayle, FindLaw)

Links2Go: E-Mail and Newsgroups

List of social networking websites (Wikipedia)

LISTSERV and USENET Finding Aids (Peru State College Library)

Listserv, Mailing Lists and Usenet Newsgroups

Listservs and E-Journals

Listservs and Usenet Newsgroups (Bothell Library, UWA)

Lycos Discussions Web Search (Carnegie Mellon University)

MaasInfo.MetroIN.html

Mailbase (University of Newcastle, England)

Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog (Peter Cashmore)

MediaWiki (Mediawiki Foundation)

Meetup: Organizing Local Interest Groups (Scott Heiferman et al.)

MetaFilter | Community Weblog

The Moderator's HomePage: Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion (Mauri Collins & Zane L. Berge)

Mondialogo Intercultural Dialogue and Exchange (UNESCO/DaimlerChrysler)

MSNBC Bulletin Boards

MSN Groups (MicroSoft Network)

MSN Web Communities -- Main Page

LifeJournal Journal Software (Chronicles Software, Sarasota, Florida)

MySpace.com (Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe et al., Santa Monica, California)

MySpace Isn't Your Space (Donald Carrington Davis, ExpressO Preprint Series, 16 Jan 2007)

Neopets! Virtual Pet Site

NetLingo.com - The Internet Dictionary

NetSquared (TechSoup)

Ning - Create your own Social Websites! (Palo Alto, California)

NS2: Niche Social Network Sites (Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University Library)

Online Lingo: A Computer and Internet Dictionary

Only Clouds Exist (mod. John Conway)

Open Forum (Heiner Benking)

Open Space Technology (Michael Herman)

Orkut Online Community (Google)

Ourmedia (J. D. Lasica & Marc Canter et al.)

PaleoBoard

PalTalk Free Text, Voice, & Video Chat (New York)

The People's Forum - New User's Guide

PHDforum.eu Index

ProBoards.com

Pronetos | Professor's Network (Chris Blanchard et al., Albion, Idaho)

Psybernet - Psychology of Cyberspace (Walter Logeman)

Quick Topic: Free Web Forum and Collaborative Document Review Groupware

Qwika Wiki Search Engine

Research Paper. COM - Discussion

Science Connection Singles Network

Sciforums.com

SD Webworks - SD Gateway (Sustainable Development Gateway)

Search Internet - Usenet/Listservs/FAQs (Internet Sleuth)

Second Life 3D Online Digital World (Linden Lab, San Francisco)

-- Official Linden Blog

-- Second Life Wiki

-- SLOD (Second Life Open Directory)

SeedWiki (Kenneth Tyler et al., 8THFold, Berkley)

Social Media or The Impact of Us (webcast by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Oxford Internet Institute, 19 Feb 2007)

Social Networking Resources and Tools
(Educational CyberPlayGround)

Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview (Amanda Lenhart & Mary Madden, Pew Internet, 7 Jan 2007) PDF

StoryCorps (Sound Portraits Productions)

The Student Center Discussion Group Forums

Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites (Margaret E. I. Kipp, Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, 26 Apr 2007) PDF

Talk Digger (Frederick Giasson)

Talking to Strangers on MySpace: Teens' Use of Internet Social Networking Sites (Tamyra A. Pierce, Journal of Media Psychology, 7 Nov 2006)

Telnet WWWBoard (Matt Wright)

The Thing BBS

ThreadTracker

Toontown Online (Disney)

True North Forums

Tweenland.com | Safe Virtual Community for Tweens
(Anthony Zinnanti, Valencia, California)

Trust in Web-based Social Networks: A Project in Social AI
(Jennifer Golbeck et al., University of Maryland)

Unlock: The Information Exchange

VidiLife | Free video hosting (Brad Greenspan et al.)

Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism (Christine Rosen, The New Atlantis 17:15-31, Summer 2007)

The Voice of the UK (UK-Voice Portal)

Vox - Your world online (San Francisco)

Webmonkey Guides: Email, Chat, and News

Whyville (Mark Dinan, Pasadena)

WikiBibliography (Gerry McKiernan, SandBox)

UCSC Wiki Lab (Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz)

WikiMindMap

Wikispaces - Wikis for Everyone (Dominick Bellizzi et al., Tangient, San Francisco)

Wiki Wiki Web (Ward Cunningham, Portland, Oregon)

WonderCafe (United Church of Canada)

World Cafe Productions

World Fossil Forum (Peterborough, England)

WSFinder (Paul, Tribe Networks, San Francisco)

The World Wide Web of War (Craig A. Smith, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 15 Mar 2006) PDF

The WWW Bulletin Board

The WWW Virtual Library: Conferences

Yahoo! Groups

Yahoo! Internet Cafes

Yale Library Scholarly Communication Workshop

Yep.com (WebSideStory)

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself (Chad Hurley & Steve Chen et al., San Mateo, California)

See also Forum Search and Noise

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Chat

AOL Instant Messenger

BBC - ChatGuide

Beatrice's Web Guide -- Today on the Net

#Beginner: Beginner IRC and Chat Channel (Jason Comeau)

The #Beginner IRC HomePage

The Booktalk Web Site

#Channel_One and #irc_friends on AnotherNet

ChatArea.com - Free Forums

ChatDanger (Childnet International)

Chat Definitions (Computer Hope)

Chat Links

Chat Room Index (Sol)

Chat Room Links (Gary's Link Page)

Chatter-bots (BotSpot)

-- Chatter Bots Search

Chatter's Jargon Dictionary (Steven C. Grossman)

Club Chat

CNN Plus: Chat

CTFire's One Stop mIRC Shop

Dalnet #Newbies IRC Help Channel

Educational Chat Rooms (Tammy Payton)

Educational On-line Encounters: Home Page (Canberra College)

EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - IRC and MUDs

Efnet IRC Channel #Newuser

Excite People & Chat Channel

Global Communications Network (FW)

GoCafe

GoodChatting.com (Julie Martin)

Google Talk

Huminity Social Networking & Chat Software (FW)

ICQ Internet Online Communication Network

Internet for Educators - EduMOOs and Chat (Catherine G. Thwing)

Internet Relay Chat (Inter-Links)

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) FAQ

Internet Relay Chat - Channels on the Web!

Internet Relay Chat Guide

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Help (Joseph Lo et al.)

Internet Relay Chat (LivingInternet)

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Tutorials and Help Files

Introduction to Internet Relay Chat (Werple)

IPL Ready Reference Collection: IRC & Chat

IPL Ready Reference Collection: MUDs and MOOs

IPL Ready Reference Collection: Talk

IRC Intro-Link (SiamWEB)

IRC Page (Cliff Wagner, The Edge)

The IRC Primer (Nicolas Pioch)

IRC Related Resources on the Internet (Paul Graham)

Jabber - Open Source XML-Based Interoperable Instant Messaging and Presence Platform

KidChatters

KidsCom KidsChat

Life on the Internet: IRC and Web Chat (Berit Erickson)

-- PBS Online Guide

Links2Go: Chat and Bulletin Boards

Live Chat: The Hot IRC Chat Site

Meebo Instant Messaging (San Jose, California)

mIRC : Homepage of the IRC Chat client mIRC (Tjerk Vonck)

MOOs, Information and Links (Jeanne McWhorter, Diversity University)

The Mud Connector

Multi-User Dimensions (LivingInternet)

NetClock (YPN)

Net Town

Newbie-U's Chat Dorm: Home of IRC 101

#NewbPlus Web Page

#Newchat

Nexopia (Edmonton)

Odigo Inc., Instant Messaging & Presence Solutions

Official #Newbie HomePage

OmniChat! - Interactive Chat System

Online Chat (John Schmidt, Suite 101)

PalTalk | The #1 Multimedia Community on the Net!

ParaChat Home Page

PeopleLink Instant Online Communication

PlanetAll - Stay in Touch!

Project VIF (Aktion HIP)

Researchpaper.com - Chat Room

Resource Central - Chat

Securing Instant Messaging (Tom Olzak, Infosec Writers, 23 Jan 2006) PDF

shortText.com - Post information. Share it.
(Kawaljit Bedi, New Delhi)

The Simon Laven Page (Chatterbots)

SmarterChild Instant Messaging ChatBot (ActiveBuddy)

Talk City

Talkway

There.com (Tom Melchor et al.)

Tracy Marks' Internet Chat and Conferencing Resources

Trillian - Communicate with Flexibility and Style

VisitMe.com

The Webarrow Chat Directory (Greg Barrow)

WebChat Broadcasting System

WebChat Navigator (Robert Eldredge)

What is IRC? (ICI)

Who Lives Here? Apartment the Earth

Word2Word Translating Chat (Bigben)

World Wide Webchat - The Largest Webchat Index on the Web

YabberNET (YTV)

Yahoo! Chat

Yahoo! - Internet:Chat

Yahoo! - World Wide Web:Chat

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