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Agora Studios - - Involved in planning, building and growing online communities. Hosts facilities such as message boards, member profiles and customized features.

Avid Gamers - - Hosts free communities for game-related topics.

CIX Online - - For fee suite of integrated internet services. Provides mail, calendars, address books, document storage, and conferencing. The mail section has virus and spam protection.

Community Architect - - Create your own online community or join one complete with free web hosting, free email, instant messenger and other website building tools.

Community Connect Inc. - - Provides free personal pages, email, forums, news, chat, instant messaging, games, promotions and online events. [Uses Flash.

CommunityPeople.net - - Hosting services for online community facilities such as member profiles, events, instant messaging, online chat, message forums, email discussion groups and online polls.

CommunityZero - - Provides any group of people with the ability to establish a private and interactive online community.

Cytopia - - Offers a link manager, task manager, blog manager, personal home page space, message boards, and webmail. [Requires Flash.

Delphi Forums - - Current incarnation of Delphi, which began in 1983. Home to thousands of member-managed communities, covering an enormously wide range of interests.

eKith.com. - - Offer webmail, groups, chat, directory services, contacts, and favorites.

Electric Minds - - Long-lived electronic community.

Memory Sites - - Share photos, stay connected, and organize events. Provides forums, change notifications, newsletters, calendars, and polls.

MSN Groups - - Free interest-group site hosting from Microsoft Network. Offers many features; customizable by the group website owner.

Mycomport - - Web community portal creation and tools.

SKIZZLE! by RootFolder Communications - - Online community offering personal storage and workgroup collaboration. Features Clubs, message boards, databases, file sharing and other personal and community productivity tools. Also features a search engine and free membership.

Syndicomm Online - - 'Syndicates' communities with message boards, chat rooms via both telnet and World Wide Web connections. Join one of the active communities, or create your own.

WhatHelps? - - Provides topical hosting services for your community homepage, community building tools (like chat, board and discussion lists) and member tools (like member websites, webmail and instant messaging).