UGC- User Generated Content

User Generated Content is a term particulary applicable to news gathering, where the end user send in news resorces.

A typical example is Citizen Journalism where a passer by is the fist to wittness a large news event and records the footage on there mobile phone and can instantly upload it onto, social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter.

Different types of user generated content:
Discussion boards
Blogs
Wikis
Social networking sites
News Sites
Trip planners
Memories
Mobile Photos & Videos
Customer review sites
Experience or photo sharing sites
Audio
Video games

Notable websites based on user generated content:
Associated Content
Atom.com
Brickfish
CreateDebate
Dailymotion
Digg
Fark
eBay
Epinions
Facebook
Flickr
Friends Reunited
GiantBomb
Justin.tv
Helium.com
Metacafe
MySpace
Newgrounds
Orkut
OpenStreetMap
Picasa
Photobucket
PhoneZoo
Revver
Second Life
Shutterstock
Skyrock
Scribd
TripAdvisor
TypePad
Urban Dictionary
Veoh
Widgetbox
Wigix
WikiMapia
Wikinvest
Wikipedia
Wix.com
WordPress
Yelp
YouTube