31 agosto 2010

// // Lascia un commento

The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010

The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010
ARTICLE DATE:  08.16.10

=0)||(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("WebTV")>=0)){ document.write(" www.ibm.com/systems/express/campaigns/storage/reducecomplexity.html?cmp=agus_..." target="_blank" />

Here are our picks for the hottest Web sites and Web trends of the year, plus some old favorites to enjoy.

Watching our annual list of Top 100 Web Sites evolve over the years has been a fairly fascinating process. In a way, the Top 100—particularly the Undiscovered portion—can be viewed as a microcosm of the Web at large. The sites that tend to make the list are indicative of larger trends that have dominated the Web for the previous 12 months.

One of the biggest trends of the past few years has been the rise of the mobile app. Thanks to devices like the iPhone and iPad, many users are doing a large portion of their Web browsing on something other than their PC. For that reason, the trend toward Web-based app development has waned. Instead of building cloud-based apps for browsers, many developers have moved toward mobile app development.

Those sites that do still target PC users must offer their content in a mobile form to compete. While there are no mobile-only sites here, a good chunk of those on the list are also available as mobile apps or in some other phone-friendly version.

As the landscape becomes ever more crowded, the need for site aggregation and content filters becomes ever more apparent. Perhaps, somewhat ironically, we found ourselves in the position of weeding through dozens of sites that promise to filter the increasing noise. Some of the better news, search, and travel aggregating/filtering sites made it through.

Speaking of filtering, we've got a few strict guidelines that we use as we pour through hundreds of suggestions from readers, staff, and friends. As mentioned above, none of the sites in the Top 100 are mobile only. The sites also can't be download-based—that means no browser plug-ins and no desktop apps. The sites also have to be free—they can have a premium counterpart, sure, but the free version has to be worth recommending on its own merits.

The distinction between Classics and Undiscovered is a bit trickier. The one hard and fast rule is that if the site has been on the Top 100 before, it's out of contention for the Undiscovered list. The other guidelines are a combination of time, traffic, and exposure. Just because a site is on the Undiscovered list doesn't mean that no one has ever used it—we just assume that the majority of our readers will be unfamiliar. It's a way of distinguishing the list from other Top 100s, which are often populated only by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo products.

Many of those products do end up on the Classics list—but again, for the sake of variety and discovery, we try to limit them even there. It would be easy to put, say, 25 Google sites on the lists, but that's not really helpful, is it?

So read, explore, enjoy, and discuss. And while you're at it, start recommending sites in our comments area for 2011. It's never too early to start the hunt.


Classics: Apps


Bing
If you've only Googled, it's time you spent a day with Bing. You might find this Microsoft search engine has a lot going for it, including perhaps the best video search around.
Check out PCMag.com's Microsoft Bing review.

Box.net
You want to share documents? Free or paid, individual or business, Box (which used to go by Box.net) is the site to check out for using the cloud (read: the Internet) to store your stuff, secure your stuff, and share stuff with others. It has collaborative tools, file syncing, works with Google Docs, and you can access it on a smartphone.


Dimdim
If you want to have an online collaborative meeting, and you don't want to install software or deal with Java apps, check out Web-based Dimdim. It might actually make a work meeting fun. Almost.
Check out PCMag.com's Dimdim review.


Drop.io
If you need to send someone a huge file or files (that amount to less than 100MB), drop it or them on Drop.io. You'll get an URL to send out for easy downloading by others. You can password protect the file, and make sure it disappears in a day, a week, or a year. Upgrade and you can take even more control of your drops.


Flickr
Yahoo's picture storage and sharing site remains a favorite due to its ease of use and easy uploading via multiple methods. The recent updates to the interface, such as adding photos to a map, make it even more useful.
Check out PCMag.com's Flickr review.


Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Do you still rely on desktop-based apps (read: Microsoft Office) for all of your word processing and spreadsheet needs? It's time to embrace the cloud. Google Docs and Spreadsheets brings a full-featured office suite experience to your browser, with the sort of dynamic experience we've all come to expect from Google. Best of all, Docs and Spreadsheets allow for multi-user collaboration, and since your docs exist online, you can access them anywhere with a browser.
Check out PCMag.com's Google Docs review.


Meebo
If you need quick access to instant messages from any browser, or you want full featured messaging as good as you'd get with desktop-based multi-protocol client software, then you go to Meebo. It's that simple.
Check out PCMag.com's Meebo review.


Mint.com
If you need help managing your finances, give Mint.com a try. This Intuit-owned site lets you keep track of your bank accounts, credit cards, loans, investments, and more, all in the same place. And best of all, the site is free to use, so it won't cost you, well, a mint.
Check out PCMag.com's Mint.com review.


Picnik
A site so good, Google went and bought it, Picnik is an online image editing, sharing, and storage site. It also integrates shopping, like letting you buy prints of your edited pics on merchandise. It's free and easy to use; power users will find the extras worth the yearly price tag of $25 .


TinyChat
We loved TinyChat last year because it had a quick-and-dirty way of setting up instant Web-based group chat. And we still like that. Now, if you've got cameras all around, up to 12 people can simultaneously broadcast to the group, as well.


Yahoo Mail
Anyone with a Yahoo account has access to this free Web-based e-mail service, which is one of our favorites. The improved interface features tabs for toggling between your inbox, what's new with friends on other Yahoo services, and easy access to apps, such as Flickr and Drop.io, that work with Yahoo Mail.
Classics: Fun


AllRecipes.com
The key to this site, if you didn't gather it from the name, is recipes, of course. There are lots and lots of recipes for every kind of food under the sun, provided by cooks all over the planet.

Boing Boing
Boing Boing may no longer bill itself as "a directory of wonderful things," but it can't fool us. Mark, Xeni, Cory, David, and their frequent guests amaze us on an hourly basis with their pop cultural findings.


CocktailDB
Go to this site and you'll be able to find just about any drink, standard or obscure, with a quick search of the Internet Cocktail Database. Look it up by drink or by ingredient.


Epicurious
This cooking site has just about everything you need to become a kitchen wiz—well, everything except for the talent. Epicurious offers an extensive collection of recipes culled from editors, readers, and fellow Conde Nast cooking sites—Bon Appétit and Gourmet. There are also a ton of articles, guides, menus, and an active community to help you along your culinary journey.


Funny or Die
Will Ferrell and his frequent collaborator Adam McKay know from funny. In 2007, they launched this comedy video Web site, with help from a video starring Ferrell and McKay's two-year-old daughter Pearl as his dictatorial landlord. Since then, Funny or Die has gone on to become one of the most frequented humor sites on the Web, thanks to a strong current of high-profile content and a rating system that lets users declare videos funny or dead.


Hulu
Is Hulu the future of TV? Considering how many TV networks back this site with the latest broadcast TV, available only hours after a show airs, perhaps it is. The addition of the $10-a-month Hulu Plus plan also provides you with access to older episodes, classic shows, and some movies, as well.
Check out PCMag.com's Hulu review.


Instructables
Co-founded by Squid Labs Saul Griffith, Instructables is one of the Web's best resources for do-it-yourself projects. From PCs to jewelry to solar panels, this site has instructions for practically anything you can dream up—say goodbye to your spare time.


The Onion
How thoroughly has "America's Finest News Source" permeated the pop cultural zeitgeist? "No, it's not from The Onion" has become a pre-cursor to any funny or otherwise bizarre news story mentioned on a blog or uttered on the nightly news. This fake newspaper has defined cutting-edge comedy for more than two decades.


Pandora
A lot of personalized Internet radio stations have sprung up in Pandora's wake, but sometimes the original—and the simplest—is the best. Pandora lets users create free custom stations based on their favorite bands or songs with help of the Music Genome Project. And thanks to mobile apps for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and webOS, you can take that customization with you.
Check out PCMag.com's Pandora review.


Ustream
We use Ustream to stream our podcast, PCMag Radio. It's a simple—and free—way to broadcast live video content on the Web. The Ustream site is also a great place to discover live and archived streams by everyone from basement podcasters to high-profile partners, including Forbes, PBS, TMZ, and, of course, PCMag.


YouTube
If you don't receive a minimum of eight links a day from YouTube, you're probably doing something wrong. This Google-owned video site is the go-to resource for everything from archived C-SPAN footage to silly cat videos (emphasis on the latter, naturally). And with initiatives like Rentals and Leanback, YouTube is doing everything it can to invade your living room. But do yourself a favor and avoid the comments at all costs.
Classics: Info


Craigslist
Craig Newmark's site may not be the flashiest the Web has to offer, but with a decade and a half of experience, you won't find a better resource for classifieds. Craigslist has it all—jobs, apartments, garage sales, dates, etc.—in more than 500 locations in 50 countries. And while you're there, be sure to check out the Best of Craigslist page for some of the funniest, strangest, and most entertaining listings the site has to offer.

Howcast
There's no lack of help and how-to sites on the Interwebs, but Howcast does it better by only featuring how-to videos. While there are some from individuals, most of the featured videos have high production values and good advice.


iFixIt
If Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers had a kid that only told you how to fix electronics, it would be iFixit. The site even sells you parts and equipment to make repairs to computers, phones, game consoles, and more.


IMDB
What was the name of that one actor who played the German guy in The Big Lebowski? No, I'm not talking about the one from The Red Hot Chili Peppers—the other one. You know, the guy from Fargo. No, not Steve Buscemi—the other one. Peter Stormare? Yeah, that's his name. Oh look, apparently, he was on an episode of Seinfeld. Man, what did we do before IMDB?


Indeed
You don't need to look for a job. Indeed will look for you, searching listing all around the Web and beyond. It posts as many as a million jobs a week, but you can narrow that down by location and keyword to get the new career opportunity you want.


Kayak
Kayak is the travel metasearch to end all travel metasearches, drawing flight, car, and hotel deals from company sites and fellow aggregators, such as Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, and Travelocity. If there's a travel deal to be had, you'll find it here.


Metacritic
Why rely on the opinions of one critic, when you can get all of them at the same time. Like Rotten Tomatoes before it, Metacritic aggregates reviews from some of the most respected outlets in the game, while doing that site a few better by including TV, music, and gaming reviews on top of its movie offerings.


Snopes
For the love of Sasquatch, if you forward on that e-mail about kidney stealing, the new über-virus, phone scams, or anything else that seems scary-but-true before checking with Snopes to see if it's just a quickly propagating urban legend, we'll feed you Coke and Pop Rocks.


TED.com
Since 1984, TED has been bringing together some of the brightest minds in technology, entertainment, and design (T.E.D., get it?) to "give the talk of their lives." Two conferences occur annually—TED in California and TEDGlobal in Oxford. TED.com is a repository for some of the most intriguing and thought-provoking speeches from some of the smartest people around.


Wikipedia
We don't recommend that you cite this free encyclopedia in your research paper (that is, unless you're doing a piece on crowd sourcing), but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more complete compendium of information, with 16 million articles—3.3 million of which are in English (yes, we got that information from Wikipedia). And, as a number of recent studies have found, the site is surprisingly accurate—still, those footnotes are there for a reason.
Classics: News


BBC
Sometimes it's important to get a global perspective on the latest news. The official site for the world's largest broadcasting organization offers a fittingly comprehensive multimedia look at the world of news, entertainment, and sport coverage (snooker, anyone?).

Legistalker
There are 100 senators and 435 voting members of the House of Representatives. Suffice it to say, that's a lot of lawmakers to keep track of. Legistalker, thankfully, manages the whole process nicely, keeping track of members of Congress through Twitter, YouTube, and hundreds of news sources, with clean feeds that are updated every 20 seconds. Search for a zip code, state, or name to find a member. The site also lists Web sites, e-mail addresses, and phone number for members of Congress—for when liking them on Facebook just isn't enough.


The New York Times
The paper of record is now the Web site of record, thanks to some of the best continued new journalism around. Don't think that The Old Gray Lady is stuck on old media, however. The Times has embraced Web 2.0, while still maintaining its commitment to quality coverage. Its Bits Blog is a must for all tech enthusiasts—even if it's not too fond of the word "tweet."


SI.com
The online home of Sports Illustrated brings you all the same great images and commentary you get in the print magazine, and a lot more, including up-to-the-minute scoreboards.
Classics: Shopping


Amazon
We try to support local businesses as much as we can, but sometimes it's just impossible to say no to Amazon's almost consistently low prices on, well, everything—movies, music, clothes, milk. Of course, books are still at the heart of the service and likely will be for the foreseeable future, seeing as how the company has more or less dominated the e-book market.


The Consumerist
Between Web scams, misleading labels, bad customer service, and rampant overbilling, the world of consumer affairs can be a scary place. Fortunately, this Gawker-run run blog is looking out for us little guys and gals. The Consumerist's tagline is "Shoppers bite back." Send along a tip to let the site's team of editors know where to sink their teeth.


Etsy
Lots of people make lots of cool things, be it clothing, furniture, art, jewelry, toys, and much more—but they often don't know where to sell those wares, and odds are you may not know where to buy them. Etsy is where you can all meet.


Restaurant.com
You want a deal on a meal? Restaurant.com offers some amazing savings on dinners at the best non-chain joints you can find, with a typical printable coupon offering $25 off the meal. And you only pay $10 (or sometimes less) for it. It's like buying food money, cheap.
Classics: Social


Facebook
Imagine putting together a list of top Web sites and not including one that has 500 million members. We can't either. That's why this über-social network, which is so big there's going to be a major motion picture about its founding, is listed here. Addicting and controversial Facebook, for some, is synonymous with the word "Internet."
Check out PCMag.com's Facebook review.

Kiva
Got a spare $25 bucks? Use it to buy someone a goat or some yarn. It might not seem like much, but Kiva facilitates micro-loans to those in places where such purchases are extravagant. Your money can ensure these struggling entrepreneurs survive and even thrive.


Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging platform for the Twitter generation. Follow other tumblelogs, re-blog posts, "like" your favorites—if you can manage a Facebook account, you can navigate this ultra-simple platform. Tumblr is also great for multimedia posts—photos, audio, video, chats, whatever.


Twitter
It's not always easy expressing yourself in 140 characters or less, but brevity is really half the fun of Twitter, right? #yep
Classics: Tech


Ars Technica
When it comes to tech news, Ars Technica doesn't mess around. The site offers some of the most consistently hard-hitting and informative coverage on the industry. The site may be a bit too "inside baseball" for more casual readers, but anyone with a genuine interest in the world of technology ought to add Ars to their RSS feed.

Filehippo.com
There are a lot of great places where you can download freeware and shareware, but few focus like a laser on the good, useful stuff you need as well as FileHippo.com. Install its update checker to find out if your current software has a new version you missed.


gdgt
Launched by former Engadget bigwigs Peter Rojas and Ryan Block, gdgt isn't just your standard tech news blog. It's a social network built around fellow techies. Read reviews and support for all of the latest gadgets from people like you—just be wary of the flame wars. This is the Internet, after all.


Lifehacker
Optimizing software is Lifehacker's bread and butter, but as its title implies, the site's usefulness extends well beyond that. Hack your work space, hack your home, hack your lunch, hack your mind—hack your life with this Gawker blog.


MakeUseOf.com
Every day, an international group of tech heads go out of their way to tell you about all the great things you can do online and with a PC. This site features every techie thing from the obvious to the obscure, with collections of sites, tools, and more, that you can, uh, make use of.


Techmeme
Where do tech journalists go to read tech journalism? Techmeme doesn't offer any original content, but it offers a well curated aggregation of some of the best industry coverage the Web has to offer.
Undiscovered: Apps


CeeVee
No one enjoys job hunting. From creating résumés to going on interviews, the entire process is a giant headache. CeeVee can help with the former. The site describes itself as "quick and painless résumé management," which is, in fact, fairly apparent. CeeVee offer a customizable easy-to-use résumé template. Once you're finished, the site will host it for perspective employers. You can also save it as a downloadable PDF or share it via Twitter and Facebook.

Flockdraw
Don't let the "collaborative whiteboard" description intimidate you-FlockDraw is no Google Wave. It's a big blank canvas that you and your friends can draw on together in real-time, with different brushes, colors, and tools. We spent most of our session trying to out gross each other with pictures, but I'm sure there are some practical applications for FlockDraw, too.


fur.ly
You don't see a lot of cool new things happening in the world of URL shortners these days-they can't get much shorter-but fur.ly is unique. It lets you put mutliple URLs into one fur.ly address and when it loads, it puts a tool bar on the page to easily skip from one to the other.


Roc
Got the skills to make beautiful music but lack the tools? Aviary, already home of some excellent online apps, wants to help with the new Roc music creator. It simulates lots of instruments and lets you create loops of melody that could be the beginning of some beautiful, customized music.
Undiscovered: Fun


Band Camp
Over the past few years, MySpace has become the default site for up-and-coming bands all over the world. It's really too bad. MySpace is clunky and ugly-everything that's driven individual users away from the site into the arms of Facebook, but most groups have yet to branch out from the News Corp.-owned social network, and in many cases, it's their default site. Band Camp offers a much cleaner, nicer, and just generally better layout for bands, right down to the minimalist music player.

Clicker
There are lots of TV shows online, whether original broadcast by the networks and cable channels, or original stuff. How do you find it all? Clicker wants to be your complete guide. Search for movies, live broadcasts, music videos, and if it's (legally) online, Clicker can probably play it, or link you to it. And if it's not, it'll probably provide a link for buying it.


Critical Past
Need to dig into the past? Try Critical Past, which offers a collection of historic images and videos. They're completely royalty-free (though you still have to pay to use them off the site). If it got captured for the news in the early part of the 20th century, there's a good chance the footage you seek is here.


Fiverr.com
What would you do for $5? Get your mind out of the gutter. We're asking a serious question, and this question serves as the basis for Fiverr. Post your skill or search the database in a number of categories, including Gift Ideas, Fun & Bizarre, Writing, and Technology. If you've been looking for someone to sing you "Happy Birthday" in Chinese, relieve your stress, teach you to juggle, or take a picture of themself dressed as Mr. Peanut, this is your site.


The Hotlist
Figure out where all of your Facebook and other social network friends are and if what they're doing is hot or not. This site mashes up info like locations with other data (like pictures of the potential crowd) so you can decide whether it's too hot for you to handle.


Kideos
Let's be honest, as great a resource as YouTube is, it's not really a site for children. Kideos, on the other hand, offers a great alternative for parents looking family-friendly video content for their kids. The site is broken up into five age groups, between zero and 10 years. The content is largely pulled from third-party video sites like YouTube, but the content is curated by Kideo and streamed through its own proprietary kid-friendly player.


Locate TV
Sites like Hulu and Netflix Watch Instant are great, but let's face it, most of us still do the majority of our television watching through our TV sets. Locate TV makes navigating through those hundreds of channels a lot simpler, by letting users create personal TV schedules. Search for your favorite shows or movies, and Locate TV will tell you if and when it's on in your area. You can also get e-mail reminders and download to an iPhone or iPad, so you'll never miss that show again.


Pixton
Have you always dreamt of becoming a cartoonist, but can't draw your way out of a wet newspaper? Pixton is a dynamic online app that lets you create highly customized comic strips. The site also features an active community of burgeoning cartoonists and plenty of comics to read.


Radio Tuna
With the contents of more Web-based radio stations than you could ever hope to listen to in a lifetime, Radio Tuna lets you search for tunes by genre, artist, or station. Bookmark sites you like for your return.


RoadsideAmerica
Consider RoadsideAmerica the blue-collar version of Atlas Obscura. That site's exotic locales are traded in for truck stops and tourist traps on the highways and byways of America. If you're planning a trip across the U.S. and have some time to kill along the way, RoadsideAmerica can point you to Alliance, Nebraska's Carhenge, the Zombie Museum in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, or the albino squirrels of Olney, IL.


ShortFormTV
Need a snack? This site serves up "video snacks," what it considers the best shorts found on the user-generated biggies like YouTube and Facebook. Hit a channel like HaHa Funny or Super Cute and you'll see a constant stream of laughs or sweetness. Vote vids up or down based on what you like to help others.


Shovio
Anyone with a camera and Internet can be the star at Shovio, which lets pros and amateurs alike broadcast in prime time slots. The difference is, this is two-way broadcasting, so the audience gets to interact. There's also a push to get businesses to use it to broadcast to employees and customers.


WhoSampled
That new song you just heard for the first time sounds strangely familiar, doesn't it? WhoSampled lets you track down the sources of your favorite songs, featuring videos of the new track and its source material. If you're looking for a place to start, I recommend checking out the results for one-time PCMag After Hours guest, Girl Talk, at WhoSampled.
Undiscovered: Info


Atlas Obscura
The tagline for Atlas Obscura is, "A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiousities, and Esoterica." If that abstract made your spine all tingly, read on. If you fell asleep before "Esoterica," it's probably best to move on to the next site on the list. Atlas Obscura is a truly wonderful collection of the world's most oddly fascinating exotic locales, from raining fish to ancient churches to mummies right in your own New England backyard. If this site doesn't make you want to get out of the house, it's time to check your pulse.

Calcmoolator
Financial calculators aren't necessarily fun, but they're a necessary evil as you navigate the waters of credit, mortgages, and more. Calcmoolator aggregates many, including tools to figure out if it's best to rent or lease, auto loan estimates, how to pay off debt, lifetime earnings, and more. Spend some time figuring out your finances for a better tomorrow.


EveryScape
Google Maps' Street View is a great technology, but, much to the insistence of privacy advocates everywhere, it tends to stop at the front door. EveryScape takes you inside businesses, restaurants, and hotels, in a number of U.S. cities and locations in Poland, China, and the U.K. I spent a good chunk of my afternoon exploring the Great Wall of China and a thrift store in San Francisco's Mission District.


LyricRat
Remember the game show Name that Tune? This is like that, but with lyrics: You type in some you've heard, click "find the song," and the rat tells you the title and artist. And if the song is for sale on Amazon, you can play a sample. (You can also send a message via twitter to @LyricRat and it'll message you back with the same info.)


Quora
Crowd-sourced answer sites are a great idea that has never really taken off in a lasting way. The problem with sites like Yahoo Answers is the quality of responses, which often tend to be lacking. Quora, the latest Silicon Valley buzz site, is all about quality responses from quality responders. Many of the users are some of the brightest minds in the tech industry. Naturally, the questions are quite often tech-centric, but hey, what do you do, PCMag reader?


RiskyRoads.org
A Google Maps mashup no one should leave home without, RiskyRoads does exactly what you'd expect. It takes traffic accident and safety data and maps it, so you know exactly which spots to avoid. Some of the data is older, but the roads are unlikely to have changed. If you see a big cluster of dots, you'd do best to steer clear of that area.


SeeClickFix
It's not just a name, it's a call to action. This site is all about communities getting involved. If you see something out of the ordinary, report it online, so the government and media and watchdog groups can do something about it. Make sure your neighborhood is on the list.


SepiaTown
SepiaTown lets users upload images of historical locations. The result is a terrific mashup of Google maps and thousands of faded photos showcasing days gone by. Navigate the Google map and click on the image to see it close up. SepiaTown is located on the border of technology and nostalgia.


SiteJabber
This National Science Foundation-funded site aims to "make the Internet a better place for consumers" through user-generated site reviews. The site's reviews are largely devoted to shopping sites, but they also cover a number of other categories, including blogs, dating, finance, and more. The biggest problem right now is a lack of user reviews, but with increased reader participation, SiteJabber can grow into a really fantastic resource for cautious Web surfers.


Starfall.com
PCMag's hardware Managing Editor Laarni Ragaza swears by Starfall for her two young children. This educational site offers interactive learning for young readers created by a dedicated staff of educators, designers, and musicians.


This We Know
How much do you really know about the place you live? This We Know aggregates U.S. Government Data-good and bad-for U.S. zipcodes. Plug in your location and find out how your area rates on the list of pollutants, unemployment, demographics, and more. You can tweet your results, should you decide to broadcast them.


WaterLife
Learning about the state of doom of our planet never looked so beautiful. In a Flash-based animated interface that is nothing short of stunning, this companion site to the documentary film about the Great Lakes's decline shows information in a way that's far more interesting (albeit time consuming) than the average Web site.


We Choose the Moon
NASA celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing with this expertly-crafted multimedia site. The site was launched back in July (pun intended), as a "live" recreation of the Apollo 11 mission. While the updates are far less frequent, the site is still a great resource for students looking to experience that now-famous giant leap.


You Are Not So Smart
You might think you are, but this site has news for you. This site, a "celebration of self-delusion" likes to spell out common misconceptions (such as "opposites attract" or "your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis") and then uses science and research to tell you why that's not the case…at all. Dummy.
Undiscovered: News


How is Life Today
What's the state of the world today? I mean it, actually-how does the last 24 hours rate, globally? How is Life Today lets users vote whether the latest news stories Suck or Rock. The responses are calculated, forming the basis of the day's Suck-o-Meter. As of this writing, the day "Slightly Rocks," thanks to stories like "40 Billionaires Pledge to Donate Half their Wealth" and "Lindsay Lohan Released From Jail, Now Due in Rehab." The Statistics page lets you graph the suckage on an hourly, weekly, and monthly basis.
Undiscovered:

Shopping


The DealMap
Looking for deals in your area? TheDealMap is a handy little Google Maps mashup that lists local discounts on shopping, restaurants, food, hotels, and much more. You can subscribe by e-mail to receive regular deal updates or download the iPhone or Android apps for deals on the go.

FoodPair
Take any food ingredient you've got (like, for example, a pear) and FoodPair serves up recipes from across the Web. You can also narrow things down by course or dish. Pears Hèléne anyone?


GigPark
Having trouble finding a doctor or a lawyer or a plumber or a mover? Who better to ask than your friends? GigPark is a social network-based work recommendation site that helps you find trusted names from people you know-it's a lot safer than aimlessly wandering around Craigslist posts.


Listia
If you're looking to pick up some free stuff, or you're looking for a place to get rid of stuff that likely won't bring in a lot of money on an auction site, check out Listia. You accrue credits for signing up and listing an item. Once you've got enough points, you can redeem them for someone else's free stuff. Listia also awards points for things like connecting your page to Facebook and inviting friends.


Local Dirt
Nothing tastes better than food you grow yourself. The next best thing is food grown as close to you as possible, without going through the factory farm industry. This site is all about local food-where to buy it, where to sell it, and how to get what you need for noshing.


Milo
Sometimes you just can't wait a full day to get a product delivered. Milo helps you find what you're looking for in your area, so you can get out of the house, take a walk, enjoy the air, and immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of your local strip mall. The information on Milo is pretty up to date, though we wish that the site would expand its selection of stores to some more local mom-and-pop-type shops. You've got your homework assignment before next year's list, Milo.


NeighborGoods
Meet and share with your neighbors (it's not too late to learn how) using NeighborGoods. Add items to an inventory of things you're willing to let others borrow, check out what you may need from the neighbors' lists, and soon you're all saving money and creating a community, online and off.


Ookong
Don't get burned by an Amazon purchase. If you know what you want and you expect a price drop (something the über-store used to honor for 30 days, but no longer does), use Ookong to keep track of the product for you. It'll notify you when the cost tumbles, so you can save money on your purchase.


Price Cheater
You're not going to find every product on Price Cheater, but those you do find are selling at a substantial savings somewhere and the site will point you to that sale. The products are all tech related, in portable media, computer, TV/video, camera, and accessory (including storage) categories.


SeatGeek
Nervous you won't get those great tickets you want for the big game or rockin' concert? You should be. They sell out fast, and they can get ridiculously expensive at the same time. SeatGeek wants to help by using that amazing magic called "math" to forecast prices and availability and when you should buy to save the most moolah.


SquareTrade
You all know what it's like to have something break, knowing you never even considered buying the extra warranty that would have given you a free fix. This site leads to bargain after-market warranties, so you don't pay ridiculous amounts at retail, with the promise of up to 70 percent off in some cases.


TinyPay.me
Overwhelmed by all of the hoops and red tape you've got to navigate to put an item up for sale on an auction site like eBay? TinyPay.me may just be the quickest and most painless way to put your goods up on the Web. The site relies on a single listing page, so you can put your items up in under a minute.


Zeer
Finding food is easy in the land of McD's and the King. Finding food that's good for y

Posted via email from Il labaro elettronico

0 comments: