Online Communities

AsianXO.com
Provides free news, profiles, e-mail, homepage, chat, and forums.
http://www.asianxo.com

Buzznet
Users can create communities and share blogs and photographs.
http://www.buzznet.com/

Communities.com
Provides chat rooms, communities, forums, instant messaging, detailed photo profiles, photo galleries, and photo ratings. Search members by age, sex, location, and interests.
http://www.communities.com

The Cult
A worldwide organization of mostly high school and college students - a unique collection of ideas and services.
http://netcult.org

Dacity.com
Provides members a free message board on many subjects, free chat services, free homepages and free online games.
http://www.dacity.com

Flamingcube
Offer image gallery hosting, webmail, albums, polls, and forums.
http://www.flamingcube.com/

Flork
Worldwide community of interesting people. Find new friends easily by 'florking around.'
http://www.flork.com

Foundmyself
An online art community with numerous features, including personal art galleries, forums, contests, the ability to sell art commission free and more. The site is based on the honor system, and is 100% free.
http://www.foundmyself.com

Habbo
Online community for teens and roleplaying. [Shockwave required]
http://www.habbohotel.com/

Kancof: Greatness Among Nations
From philosophy to world news to politics to religion to sports to fitness to weapons.
http://www.kancof.com

The Lost Diner
Focused on the abandoned, forgotten, mysterious, and unexplained. Has forums, chat rooms, and message board. Share stories, photos, maps, conversation, links, and ideas.
http://www.lostdestinations.com/lostdiner.htm

Meefo.com
Meefo is a place where anyone is accepted. Features news, reviews, gallery, chat and random banter.
http://meefo.com

MyNeti.com: Next Online Community
Personals, forums, chat, and shopping. Has message boards listed by subject.
http://www.myneti.com

NowTalking
Read and write diaries, send mail to other members, and exchange messages in guestbooks.
http://www.nowtalking.com

OpenGaia
Browse through profiles, personals, shared interests, experiences and ideas, polls, creations, job search. Participate, share, meet people.
http://www.opengaia.com

The Pork
Members can access chat rooms, discussion boards, personals, and instant messaging.
http://www.the-pork.com

Rogues Tavern Online Community
Online community of international rogues, scoundrels and rascals. Offering chat, message board, graffiti and a scrapbook.
http://www.roguestavern.com

Sciforums
Forum discussions cover world events, science, religion, philosophy, and technology.
http://www.sciforums.com/

Spammers Paradise
General discussion. Has forum, store, calendar, and member directory.
http://www.spammers-paradise.com

The Spoke
Microsoft's digital lifestyle club for students from around the world, with message boards, hubs, blogs and 10 MB of upload space for members.
http://www.thespoke.net/

Talk City
Participate in discussions about relationships, hobbies, business, technology, health and other topics. Socialize with friends, or start your own chat group.
http://www.talkcity.com/

Wanderlist
User-contributed, user-evaluated lists of notes including lots of links.
http://www.wanderlist.com

Whyville
A virtual 3-D world for curious minds where you can own land, build your own house, play simulation games, win prizes, chat, and help the community grow.
http://www.whyville.net/

WireClub
Personal and group blogs tied in with many other social networking features. Geared to meeting people through shared interests. Free site.
http://www.wireclub.com

YABA
Chat room based social networking community.
http://yaba.com/

YouThink.com
Ask questions, and discuss jokes, movies and trivia.
http://www.youthink.com

BusinessWeek: Internet Communities
Surfers are losing interest on website content and want now to settle in online communities. <small>(May 5, 1997)</small>
http://www.businessweek.com/1997/18/b35251.htm

Everything In Moderation
Features links to articles on management strategies. [RSS]
http://www.everythinginmoderation.org/index.xml