Social networking websites have acquired a great influence on people’s lives. These websites help people interact with family members and friends who are residing in far off places, and even with their next door buddies. Online socializing is fun and notably inexpensive. People are only charged for their usual internet connection, which is nothing in comparison to the expanses of phone calls, postal mails, and airplane tickets. Orkut.com and Facebook.com were thought to be the leaders of internet social networking, unless Twitter.com entered the race and alarmingly, began attaining a lot of attention from social networking freaks.

Twitter.com is a social interaction portal that allows people to join it free of cost, and interact with their friends and family online. People stay connected to their circle by answering a simple and easy question, “What Are You Doing?” This question can get so many diversified answers that one will be astonished to witness the variety. Users get to know about whatever their buddies are doing when the status is updated. This is a uniquely different idea behind this simple yet interesting website.

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StumbleUpon is definitely one of the best recognized platforms to discover great websites online, judged on the basis of collaborative opinions. It amalgamates personal preferences with pages of high quality, to confer the satisfied results for the international populace.  It’s more refined than a search engine, as it serves the facilities of personalized browser, people driven technology and dynamic approach.

StumbleUpon is all about fascinating images, enticing videos, tempting site links and innumerable other ways to discover the top notch site material of different websites, related to travel, music, photography, humor and science.

Design

Since, the sole aim of the site is to include as many sites, related to different domains, it uses subtle color scheme. The template, with white background and touches of dark blue confers a very serious impression for the website. Detailing of every site is done in a professional manner. The organization is simplified with the usage of simple content, so that no ambiguity prevails for the users.

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Medicalnewstoday.com is an initiative of MediLexicon International Ltd with its headquarters at UK and Mexico. It is one of the largest and independent medical news health sites on the web space. This is one domain, which has new and interesting matter, every passing day. With more than 80 articles being uploaded every day since November 2003, the site offers every bit of health news to its viewers in the most comprehensive manner.

Design

Medicalnewstoday.com adopts the shades of white and dark blue as the trademark of its presence, conferring it a very modest and simplified outlook. Every news item is supported with some images. The headlines have been provided with the needed impactful presence, so that the readers get naturally interested in it. Since, there are so many categories of news and other vital information, the site makes sure that there is no ambiguity in between the pages.

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Delicious - The website URL calls for some thought that goes behind the naming of the website. There is also the tagline that sounds interesting. This is the tastiest book marking website, as they say. The website looks good with blue and white as its basic design colors. You can have a look at the popular websites for each category and these are called the bookmarks.

Technical Overview

The website is simple to load and gets downloaded very fast with a broadband connection. The links work all too well and open up to pages with large amount of information and websites that you can find readily.
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As a start up networking website, Wikio seems to be doing well. This looks like another social networking website with the updates, the videos, the signups, the search field and so on. The first version of Wikio looked much like Digg and an inspired one. Then they moved to mme tracking and also the collection of news. In the latest redesigned version of Wikio there are a lot of features. There is the section on Shopping and that works well. The items are again divided into various categories and you can link to related news. The looks for the video section is similar to that of Diggs and there is one difference only in the Techmeme style. The videos are good.
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Twitter – The name suggests the functionality of this website well. It is a social networking website with that extra edge to it that is fast growing due to its excessive popularity. It is a free micro blogging website. The little birdie on the website is cute and the site design is simple with a login form to the right and a signup statement which is very suggestive. You are asked what you are doing and that’s the concern of the innumerable friends and family you get to meet on Twitter.com

Functionality

You can make your tweets, that is whatever you want to say to your friends, public or private. The users can make comments. The short updates are posted in the form of “tweets” and they can also upload the videos through features called Twideo.

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