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Check out these 8 cool networking sites

Here are 8 cool tech-related social networking sites you can check out if you’re looking for communities dedicated to everything from web technology and development to gaming.

They all bring something interesting to the table and are all excellent resources for both major geeks and total noobs. Please comment below if you have additions:)

These are generally geek sites, but they are also great for newcomers and for people interested in expanding their horizons on the web.

  1. Slashdot – Highly popular social networking site focused on tech, web and gaming.
  2. Advogato - Free and open source software community for developers.
  3. Dzone – Great social networking and news site for developers of every stripe and color.
  4. CSS Globe – Community news site dedicated to CSS and web development.
  5. Pixel Groovy - Community based tutorial site for Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, 3D Applications, Web Development, Operating Systems and more.
  6. Design Float – Social networking community dedicated to web design.
  7. DevelopersNiche – Social community dedicated to web development.
  8. Gaia – Great online community dedicated to all aspects of gaming and more.
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While One Link May Help, Another May Be Broken

Here are the top 14 highest ranking do-follow social bookmarking sites as of right now.

None of these sites are below a PR7, and all of them allow “follow” links. For those who don’t know, there are two kinds of links, “follow” and “no-follow.”

“Follow” links mean that the site you link from adds juice to the site you’re linking to.

For example, if I link to a blog from Propeller, hopefully Propeller will pass some link power to my blog.

“No-follow” is what sites do who don’t want to pass on any of their link power to other sites. An example would be if I added a link to my Stumbleupon profile – it would still link to my site, but I wouldn’t get any power from that link.

Without further ado, here are the top 14 do-follow bookmarking sites (which I consider PR7 and above) I’ve found; please add a comment below if you think I forgot one.

  1. (PR9) Slashdot
  2. (PR8) Digg
  3. (PR8) Propeller
  4. (PR7) Furl
  5. (PR7) Backflip
  6. (PR7) Hugg
  7. (PR7) Mixx
  8. (PR7) Ma.gnolia
  9. (PR7) Connotea
  10. (PR7) Mystuff
  11. (PR7) Reddit
  12. (PR7) Dzone
  13. (PR7) Folkd
  14. (PR7) Multiply