Alternatives to Google, Facebook, Windows Live,Yahoo…
Time for an updated post about some great alternatives to the big players on the internet. I like them. You might not even be looking for any, but if you do or if you’re just looking for something new, you might find something interesting here.
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Ixquick – (available in many languages)
DuckDuckGo
Gmx (free, quite a lot of space and other cool features)
Fastmail.fm (quite good email service, imap, not pop in the free version)
Icerocket (ok web email)
Mail.com (powered by the same service as GMX)
Caring4animals.com (for those of us who care about animals)
Chat/IM
Jabber info (for the computer or smartphone – use Adium for the computer or IM+ on your phone)
Touch (for your smartphone)
Photo Album
Community
Care2 (free donations, petitions, e-cards…)
Goodreads (book community)
Blog/Tumblelog
WordPress.org, WordPress.com (available in English and many other languages)
Dreamwidth (blog community like Livejournal – just as fan fiction friendly)
Tumblr
Soup (if you have Tumblr or any of a number of other webb services you can set up an automatic import)