Early adopter? Here are some of my favorite social networking apps

These are some of my favorite Web 2.0 sites, ones that I use and am a member of:

1. TheThingsIWant.com - keep track of things you want to buy, or get as gifts.
2. dodgeball - let your whole circle of friends know where you are, with just an sms
3. bloglines.com - my only regret about RSS feeds is that they are a recent phenomenon. Using software RSS readers is ok if you only have one PC - but I read my blogs at work, then in the living room, then in the home office - so syncronicity is nice. With bloglines, it knows what I've read, and what I haven't, so I am not wasting time scrolling through old posts. It's definitely nice to have control over what I read.
4. del.icio.us - keep track, tag, and share your favorite sites
5. flickr.com - now owned by Yahoo!, an excellent photo tagging and sharing site.
6. Social Voicemail - this !-happy website lets you set up an account where you call one number, leave one message, and all of your friends get it. Cheaper, faster, and easier than text messages, online bulletins, or calling everyone. Early Adopter Signup is limited to 50,000 users, and if you make it, it's free to sign up, and you get free service for life.

Sites I don't participate in:

• MySpace - I'm no longer a horny 19-year old who forgot how to use a phone
• Facebook - no longer in school

What got this post started was the news that socialvoicemail.com went live today, and is offering free accounts to the first 50,000 people. The rest of it isn't active, and could be a massive e-mail-collecting fraud, but I'll reserve judgment for later.
Also of note: IHateDRM, a website dedicated to one of my favorite pet peeves - Digital Rights Management, which takes away our right to enjoy our entertainment wherever we want it. Here's an example: most people buy a CD for $15. If you want it in MP3, and don't know how to rip, it's 99c per track. Then, if you want a ringtone, it's $1.99 for low-quality 30-second snippet of that same song. If the CD is DRM-protected, the DMCA makes it illegal to break that protection - even though fair use laws state that you can take a CD that you bought, and copy it for your own personal use. Another example is that DVDs which you buy in the US will not play in the rest of the world due to region coding (US is region 1, UK is region 2, etc.). So, if you travel overseas, don't bring your DVDs - unless you bring along your own DVD player. Ironically, in most other countries, multi-region DVD players are more prevalent than region-locked players - who in their right mind would buy a unit that only plays back that country's DVDs? I'll tell you who - the US. Good luck finding multi-region players at your local Worst Buy, Fried Circuit City, CompBadForUSA, etc. So switch to divx players, burn your own movies, get educated, and vote for politicians who aren't fooled by the lies the industry tells them.