Open Web Social Icon Guide

Open Web gathers info from 180+ social sites and consolidates it into one supercharged profile. See a
candidate’s entire social media footprint, and get a comprehensive view of their passions and interests.
dice.com/openweb

About.me - Platform to create a central user profile Facebook - Social networking site, connects people
that links to all of your social networks. with friends and others. 1+ billion users.

Bebo - Social networking site that is similar

Flickr - Photo management and sharing application.
to Facebook. SN

Foursquare - Geo-targeting tool that recommends

Bitbucket - Hosting site for software developers
places and deals based on where people visit.
to share code and collaborate. 3 million users. T
See where candidates check-in to connect. SN

Blip.fm - Internet radio with music streaming FriendFeed - Site that consolidates updates from
and sharing. social networks in one spot.

GitHub - Hosting site for software developers to

Blogger - Site to create and host blogs. share code and collaborate. Largest code host in
world. 3 million users. T

BusinessWeek.com - Business news with profiles Google Profiles - Site to create a personal profile
of successful business people. to help control your public image.

CrunchBase - Database of technology companies, Google+ - Social networking site. 500 million users.
people and investors. T Second largest network behind Facebook. SN

Gravatar - Creates an image to represent you across

Delicious - Tool to save, organize and remember the web. Appears when you comment and post.
links you find interesting on the web. Provides personal contact info for candidates.

Dice - The most comprehensive view of tech talent. Identica - Social networking and micro-blogging
Millions of unified profiles that leverage data from service. Can also install software, customize groups
1.5 million resumes and 50 social sites. T and download plugins. SN

Digg - User-generated news website where Instagram - Facebook-owned mobile tool to share
people vote content up or down. photos and video. Now create/upload 15-second
videos to share; Competes with Vine/Twitter. SN

Disqus - Service that helps facilitate comments Last.fm - Internet radio service that recommends
and discussions on your website. new music based on what you listen to.

Dribbble - A place to show and tell, promote, discover, LiveJournal - Site to create and host blogs.
and explore design. Has a social component with friends lists.

T = Tech Oriented SN = Social Networking

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Meetup - Site that helps groups of people plan Squarespace - Site to create websites, pages,
online and offline meetings/meetups. SN galleries and blogs.

Mixx - DJ software for making mixes. Open source Stack Overflow - Q&A site for software developers.
project. Programmers contribute code. Contains library of detailed programming info. T

StumbleUpon - Site that finds and recommends

MySpace - Not used much anymore for social
networking. Mostly music and entertainment. SN
Ning - Platform to create, customize and launch
your own social network. Used to have free platform;
Pay only now.
content based on what you view and rate. Thumbs
up or thumbs down content. SN
Technorati - Search engine specifically for blogs.
Finds content based on tags and keywords.
Provides popularity indexes and great for SEO.

Orkut - Google-owned social networking and TripIt - Site to organize trip details and
discussion site. SN share travel plans.

Pinterest - Content sharing service where users “pin”
images and videos to pinboards. #3 most popular
behind Facebook and Twitter. SN
Plancast - Site to find events and things to do
near you. Helps people connect and share events.
Tumblr - Yahoo owned blogging platform and social
networking site. Recently purchased to compete with
Facebook and Google. SN
Twitter - 140-characters social networking and
micro-blogging service. #2 in users, behind
Facebook. SN

Plaxo - Site to manage and sync multiple Typepad - Service for hosting and publishing blogs
address books and contact information. and photo albums.

Plurk - Social networking and micro-blogging service Viadeo - Professional social network (like LinkedIn)
with comments grouped in threads. Accepts images with a major presence in Europe, India, China,
and videos. SN and South America. SN

Quora - Q&A site edited by users. Topics are Vimeo - Non-commercial site to upload, share,
aggregated. Large Silicon Valley user base. SN and view videos (like YouTube). SN

Reddit - Unique bookmarking site; Social news

WordPress - Site to create and host websites
website and forum where stories are curated and
and blogs. An Open Source project.
promoted by its users.

Seesmic - Suite of tools to help users simultaneously Xing - Social network for business and careers
manage accounts for multiple social networks. with a major presence in Germany. SN

YouTube - A popular site to upload, share,

and view videos. Operated by Google. #2 for SEO,
next to Google. SN

T = Tech Oriented SN = Social Networking

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amazon.com gaming.stackexchange.com scifi.stackexchange.com
android.stackexchange.com geekli.st/home scribd.com
angel.co gis.stackexchange.com securitystackexchange.com
apple.stackexchange.com github.com seesmic.com
area51.stackexchange.com gitorious.org sensiolabs.com
askubuntu.com google.com seomoz.org
bebo.com gravatar.com serverfault.com
bicycles.stackexchange.com gumroad.com skype.com
bitbucket.org healthgrades.com slideshare.net
blip.fm identi.ca sourceforge.net
blogspot.com imdb.com squarespace.com
bullhornreach.com instagram.com stackapps.com
businessweek.com joind.in stackexchange.com
careers.stackoverflow.com jsclasses.org stackoverflow.com
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connect.data.com klout.com stumbleupon.com
cooking.stackexchange.com lanyrd.com sunzu.com
crunchbase.com last.fm superuser.com
cstheory.stackexchange.com launchpad.net tavern.com
dba.stackexchange.com livejournal.com technorati.com
delicious.com mathematica.stackexchange.com tex.stackexchange.com
deviantart.com mathstackexchange.com travel.stackexchange.com
digg.com medicare.gov tripit.com
diigo.com meetup.com tumblr.com
disqus.com meta.stackoverflow.com twitter.com
diy.stackexchange.com mixxx.org typepad.com
doximity.com myspace.com unix.stackexchange.com
dribbble.com ning.com uxstackexchange.com
drupal.org nofenergy.co/uk viadeo.com
drupal.stackexchange.com noia.ca vimeo.com
dzone.com odesk.com visualcv.com
econsultancy.com oilpro.com webapps.stackexchange.com
elance.com orkut.com webmasters.stackexchange.com
electronics.stackexchange.com photo.stackexchange.com wordpress.com
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english.stackexchange.com physics.stackexchange.com xing.com
facebook.com pinterest.com yahoo.com
flickr.com plancast.com yelp.com
forrst.com plaxo.com youtube.com
foursquare.com plurk.com zend.com
freelancer.com programmers.stackexchange.com zerply.com
friendfeed.com quora.com
reddit.com