AsianXO.com - Provides free news, profiles, e-mail, homepage, chat, and forums.

Buzznet - Users can create communities and share blogs and photographs.

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.

The Cult - A worldwide organization of mostly high school and college students - a unique collection of ideas and services.

Dacity.com - Provides members a free message board on many subjects, free chat services, free homepages and free online games.

Flamingcube - Offer image gallery hosting, webmail, albums, polls, and forums.

Flork - Worldwide community of interesting people. Find new friends easily by 'florking around.'

Foundmyself - An online art community with numerous features, including personal art galleries, forums, contests, the ability to sell art commission.

Habbo - Online community for teens and roleplaying. [Shockwave required]

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.

NewHeavenNewEarth - Purpose is to build a global network to pool talents, experience, and resources to unravel life's mysteries. Includes a blog, community, and special reports.

The Pork - Members can access chat rooms, discussion boards, personals, and instant messaging.

Sciforums - Forum discussions cover world events, science, religion, philosophy, and technology.

Spammers Paradise - General discussion. Has forum, store, calendar, and member directory.

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.

Talk City - Participate in discussions about relationships, hobbies, business, technology, health and other topics. Socialize with friends, or start your own chat group.

Wanderlist - User-contributed, user-evaluated lists of notes including lots of links.

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.

WireClub - Personal and group blogs tied in with many other social networking features. Geared to meeting people through shared interests. Free site.

YABA - Chat room based social networking community.

YouThink.com - Ask questions, and discuss jokes, movies and trivia.

BusinessWeek: Internet Communities - Surfers are losing interest on website content and want now to settle in online communities. (May 5, 1997)

Everything In Moderation - Features links to articles on management strategies. [RSS]