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Icon Buffet is a new take on social networking and brings together design, sharing, trading and socialising with an array of neat little interface mechanisms.

Alongside offering premium icons and graphics at a cost, Icon Buffet holds a whole host of free graphics that can be traded and shared within the growing community.

Registering for a free account grants you 10 tokens a month, these can be used to “buy” icon sets - which are all priced individually. Rather than just buying these sets from the site you need to request them from other community members.

By receiving delivery of these free sets you earn yourself “stamps” which can, in turn, be used for sending your sets to other members.

By achieving various things within the community you can earn yourself badges - receive 10 deliveries, make 25 friends, that kind of thing.

There’s a vast number of sets to collect and a thriving community that’s continuing to grow. You can, if you can’t wait, upgrade as a VIP member for around $50 a year. This upgrade will net you 30 tokens a month rather than the free 10.

Well worth a look - even if you’re just interested to see a unique approach to social networking and some novel uses of JavaScript interface libraries.