Online computer services for individual consumers and companies accessible via a global network, namely: providing information and facilitating the collection of information on multiple industries including healthcare, finance, travel, real estate, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, arts and entertainment, professional services, and consumer products; enabling businesses to create, obtain, track, monitor, organize, manage, and store information obtained from customers, affiliates, users, members, experts, enthusiasts, clients, and participants and from communities of the same to acquire knowledge, get feedback on products, manufacture analytics, generate new sales information and leads, generate marketing information and create a database that can be used to assist in product research and development and service management and to increase the usability, relevance, and effectiveness of businesses and their online applications; and to create, foster, facilitate, manage, and empower online communities via directories, email, notification, alerts, recommendations, instant messaging, voice, bulletin boards, discussion boards, chat rooms, opinion polls, and databases.