flash-based social networking sites

I'm a fan of Faketown!
http://www.faketown.com

very cute-- draw your own creations and then sell them to other
people...or build a house and furnish it. Tons of cool functionality
around music and video too though i haven't explored it all.

maya

On 10/5/06, Jennifer Bove <jlbove at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Does anyone know of any social networking sites / community centric
> sites that are built in flash?
> Good or bad, please send me urls.
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> Thanks!
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> Jennifer
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Here's another one-- not sure how i feel about it but kids love it:
http://www.urbaniacs.com

The emphasis is on creating wacky avatars and playing games. There are
some great ideas in there, like a list of "Recently Sighted" people.
Again, not all of it is Flash.

Hope that helps,
maya

On 10/6/06, Ashim <ashim.s at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Some of the flash-based communities which lets you create avatars are
> WeeWorld <http://www.weeworld.com/>,
> Cyworld<http://us.cyworld.com/main/index.php>,
> Habbo Hotel <http://www.habbohotel.co.uk/>, Gaia
> Online<http://www.gaiaonline.com/>.
> One of my personal favorites is a relatively new service called
> combots<http://www.combots.com>
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> These might not use all-flash interface (unlike wallop) but the main
> features like chat and communications are built in flash.
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http://www.tagworld.com

Tagworld is not entirely flash based, but they are doing some interesting
things with adding flash "widgets" on http://www.tagworldwidgets.com

Also, there's a company called Userplane http://www.userplane.com that was
recently purchased by AOL. Userplane is not a social networking site, but
they do provide some really cool flash-based ad-ons to sites like Chat
Rooms, Web-based IM, desktop and Web presence detection, and A/V recording.
They are (possibly "were", I'm not that current) used by Myspace, JDate,
Friendster, and a bunch of other sites for Web-based IM.

- Josh