Diaspora: Although in its Alpha this platform lets you share whatever you want with whomever you want and you can even host your own server!

From their site:

Diaspora makes sharing clean and easy – and this goes for privacy too. Inherently private, Diaspora doesn’t make you wade through pages of settings and options just to keep your profile secure.

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These resources are taken from Deltina Hay’s critically acclaimed book, The Social Media Survival Guide, already in its second edition. Social Media Power readers can get a discounted copy of the book from the publisher. Learn more about Deltina and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to her video tutorial series on YouTube.

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Unfortunately, the YouTube custom player is no longer available to new users.

There are still ways to create a YouTube video gallery for your website or blog, however.

The latest entry in the Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video walks you through how to create a YouTube gallery using playlists:

Surchur: a dashboard for real time searches on what´s hot now!

From their site:

You want to know what topics are hot right now? Our Real Time Board is your answer. We monitor Google Trends, Twitter Trends, Yahoo Buzz, Bing xRank, CNN, Technorati and more to bring you the most complete view of the real time web. Plus we score all of the topics to show you just how hot they are.

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These resources are taken from Deltina Hay’s critically acclaimed book, The Social Media Survival Guide, already in its second edition. Social Media Power readers can get a discounted copy of the book from the publisher. Learn more about Deltina and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to her video tutorial series on YouTube.

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Netvibes Ecosystem: A directory of widgets for probably every occasion!

From their site:

Ecosystem is the largest widget directory.
Find widgets for the best services and news, create yours, share them with your friends and add them to your personal start page to manage your digital life.

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These resources are taken from Deltina Hay’s critically acclaimed book, The Social Media Survival Guide, already in its second edition. Social Media Power readers can get a discounted copy of the book from the publisher. Learn more about Deltina and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to her video tutorial series on YouTube.

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