www.change.org

             Change.org is an online activism platform for social change that raises awareness about important causes and connects people to opportunities for powerful action. It work with more than 1000 of the largest organizations in the world, have a team of hundreds of journalists and organizers that span the globe, and empower millions of people each month to make a difference.

             Change.org is organized around more than a dozen leading cause-based communities, ranging from gay rights to women’s rights to animal welfare. Within each community anyone can start an online petition, sign petitions related to their interests, and magnify their impact by sharing each petition with friends. Put online activism to work, create social change through an online petition today.

Link: http://www.change.org/

www.yelp.com

          Yelp is an online urban city guide that helps people find cool places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play, based on the informed opinions of a vibrant and active community of locals in the know. Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great — and not so great — in your world.

Link: http://www.yelp.com/

www.desihits.com

         Desi Hits! is an entertainment/lifestyle hub for anyone curious about Desi culture. Desi Hits! aim to provide Desi lifestyle/culture and music in a format that cannot be found anywhere else. Desi Hits! aims to make South Asian culture more widely dispersed and understood as well as offering a platform for South Asian artists to promote themselves globally. Desi Hits! draws on the multicultural backgrounds of its target audience, namely the “Desi”, who can often be described as bilingual, trendy, cosmopolitan and as likely to jive to Madonna as they are to Bollywood. It focus heavily on bi-cultural remixes as they uniquely represent the next generation (and beyond) South Asian experience.

         It’s an exciting time for the South Asian community, particularly as the cross pollination of cultural heritage is spilling into the mainstream. Icons such as Aishwarya Rai and pop idols such as M.I.A. point to a new hybrid pop vernacular that represents South Asians everywhere. The impact on global pop can be seen by the fact that artists such as Britney Spears, Madonna, Jay-Z and Timbaland have put a South Asian spin to their music and are working with Desi producers and artists.

         The Desi Hits! offering, however, is not exclusively South Asian. Desi Hits! covers mainstream as well as bicultural news, music, interviews and lifestyle content with a global perspective since the next generation Desi wants it all and is currently forced to go to multiple vendors to get it. To that end, Desi Hits! will just as soon cover Usher and P Diddy as it would up and coming South Asian artists like Jay Sean and Rishi Rich or even Bollywood.

Link: http://www.desihits.com/

www.wall.fm

            Wall.fm is a free tool for creating custom social networks with easy setup and complete feature set.

           Your project may have your own unique needs but if you need advanced community features that are dead easy to use, then wall.fm is the right place to you.

With Wall.fm you can start:

• Social network
• Photo/Video sharing site
• Dating site
• Education project
• Customer community
• Fan club
• Family site
• ... and virtually anything else.

Link: http://www.wall.fm/

www.oyindia.in

       OyIndia.in is an India-centric human-powered search engine cum forum site.

       OyIndia is built on the fundamental principle of web i.e., hypertexts. It strive to help you find what you are looking for by linking to relevant documents on the world wide web. OyIndia also has a social feature built into it by the way of comments and Oyindia Forums. You can ask questions/ Share your knowledge with fellow surfers who are looking for the same information.

Link: http://www.oyindia.in/

www.irfca.org

            IRFCA is a primarily an electronic discussion group connecting many railfans particularly interested in railways in India, and with links to other railfan groups around the world. Currently, it takes the form of a web-based forum, although in the past it operated as a mailing list. Additionally IRFCA also refers to this web site (irfca.org).

            Topics on IRFCA cover just about anything and everything having to do with trains in India! Many members are interested in current passenger services, routes, timetables, etc. Others are more interested in technical details of railway operations, motive power, rolling stock, etc. Yet others are interested in historical aspects of trains in India and the subcontinent. They also get travelogues and descriptions of railfanning trips made by members. Occasionally they also discuss railways in neighbouring countries or elsewhere in the world. Discussions are in the English language.

            Members of IRFCA are also engaged in documenting railways in India photographically and otherwise the links there to the photo gallery, members' web pages, documents on IR, etc.

           Some members are also engaged in preservation and heritage awareness-building activities, and other activities related to IR, although those are not officially within the scope of the IRFCA mailing list.

Link: http://www.irfca.org/

www.causes.com

         Causes is the world’s largest platform for activism and philanthropy. It empower individuals to create grassroots communities called “causes” that take action on behalf of a specific issue or nonprofit organization. Since its founding in 2007, Causes has brought together:

 - 140 million Causes users

 - $30 million raise for 25,000 nonprofits

 - 500,000 user-created Causes

         Every cause is a community for action, bringing people together and providing them with tools for fundraising, advocacy work, and awareness-raising. Cause members are incentivized to take action by recruiting their friends to join, donating or fundraising, educating themselves through videos and photos, discussing important issues, and more.

Link: http://www.causes.com/

www.ivillage.com

                iVillage is the largest content-driven community for women online reaching 30 + million unique visitors per month (comScore). With over four million plus conversations annually and thousands of specific brands talked about weekly, iVillage is at the center of her digital routine.

                Everyday women come to iVillage to connect, share advice, find life tools and engage in conversations that matter most to them in areas of Pregnancy & Parenting, Health, Food, Entertainment, Home & Garden and Beauty & Style.

Additional businesses and brand extensions within iVillage include iVillage UK, NBC Digital Health Network, Astrology.com and GardenWeb.

                iVillage Inc., is based in New York City, and is part of the NBC Universal Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks Group.

Link: http://www.ivillage.com/

www.smashingmagazine.com

             Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Its aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. It try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information it present. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.

           Perhaps the most remarkable yet overlooked aspect of the design community is its friendly, enthusiastic spirit. Every day, literally thousands of talented, hard-working folks out there gain new insight from their work, come up with brilliant ideas and then share their experience with fellow designers.

           Nourished by the gratitude of its benefactors and powered by the reach of social networking, this community has produced a wide variety of high-quality articles, resources and tools, available to everybody. Every single contribution supports the entire community, and the community supports these contributors with traffic and word-of-mouth advertising: the networking effect at its best.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/