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FIFO Life is a lifestyle app for fly-in-fly-out workers in Australia that lets you keep track of your roster and share it with family and friends.
Flickr is an online content hosting platform and social network, owned by SmugMug Inc
Foursquare City Guide was a free, location-based social media app that helped you find restaurants and bars in your area.
Foursquare Swarm is a free, location-based social media app that helps you keep a record of the restaurants and bars you have visited.
Friv is a website that links you to a selection of third-party browser games.
Gab is a social media service, that lets you post text, images, videos and polls as well as generate images and interact with artificial intelligence (AI) bots.
Gas was a social media service for young people that let you interact with your friends by semi-anonymously answering poll questions.
Gettr is a social media and microblogging service available globally through a website and dedicated apps.
GitHub is a website designed primarily for developers to create, store and share computer code.
Google is an internet search engine that uses a proprietary algorithm to rank and order search results in terms of their relevance to the user and their dependability as data sources.
A Google Account is an online account required to personalise results and sometimes access Google’s services and apps.
Google Assistant is the AI-powered and entirely cloud-based voice assistant used by many smart technologies, including Google Nest smart speakers and Android smartphones.
Google Chat is a direct messaging, group chat and voice and video calling app owned by Google
Google Gemini is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, which allows people to interact in a conversational way and generate content.
Google Meet is a voice and video calling app that is also accessible via a web browser.
GoToWebinar is a webinar and online video conferencing service created by LogMeIn.
Grand Theft Auto V (GTAV) is an online action-adventure game made by Rockstar Games. It is one of sixteen titles in the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) franchise.
Grindr is a dating and meeting online app predominantly used by gay and bisexual men, and the trans community. It uses your device’s GPS to locate other users nearby.
Grok is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by xAI, a company owned by Elon Musk, that is integrated into the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) and available through apps and a standalone website.
Halo is a science-fiction first shooter video game series that has expanded to include comic books, novels, animated features, soundtrack albums and more.
happn is a location-based social media app which is mostly used as a dating service
HER is an online dating service primarily used by female, non-binary and transgender people in the LGBTIQ+ community, who identify as lesbian, bi+ or queer.
Hinge is a dating app designed for people interested in longer term relationships.
Hoop is a social networking app used for making new friends and is a free add-on to Snapchat.
Hornet is a social media network aimed at the LGBTIQ+ community.
HTC Vive is an app that lets you control virtual reality (VR) headsets through a smartphone.
Hugging Face is an open-source online platform where users can create and share new online products and content by using the Hugging Face library of artificial intelligence (AI) models, repositories, datasets and toolkits.
ICQ-Chat was one of the first online instant messaging platforms in the world.
Imgur is an online content hosting site where you can view and share content such as images, GIFs, memes, videos and reviews.
Jack’d is a dating and meeting online app used by gay, bi, trans and queer people, which has a diverse community of users.
Jdate is a dating website and app for single Jewish people.
KakaoTalk (commonly referred to as KaTalk) is a free messaging, video calling, and online services app owned by Kakao Corp.
Kids Chat is a free online chatroom that you can join as an anonymous guest or sign up to.
Kik is a social messaging app that allows you to send and receive content to people and groups you know, as well as people and groups you don’t know.
Kippo a real-time virtual world that allows you to connect with existing friends and meet new people.
League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) by Riot Games, inspired by the Warcraft III modification, Defense of the Ancients (Dota).