2006 Collections of the Best
Websites
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Time Magazine’s top 25 Sites 2006 (Aug 3) |
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222769,00.html
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www.amazon.com,
Apple Movie Trailers (www.apple.com/trailers),
Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/start)
Craigslist classified ads (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/)
Drudge Report (http://www.drudgereport.com/),
Ebay (http://www.ebay.com), ESPN (http://espn.go.com), Factcheck.org (http://www.factcheck.org/), Flickr (http://flickr.com/), Google (http://www.google.com/), HowStuffWorks (http://www.howstuffworks.com/), the
Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com),
Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/),
Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/), Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/), Museum of Modern Art (http://moma.org/), Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/Default),
National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/),
The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/content/),
Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/),
Shopzilla (http://www.shopzilla.com/),
Technorati’s Blog Finder (http://technorati.com/),
Sphere Blog Finder (http://www.sphere.com/),
Television Without Pity show recaps (http://televisionwithoutpity.com/),
The Smoking Gun – documenting crime news (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/),
Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org/), Yahoo!
(http://www.yahoo.com/ including
Delicious http://del.icio.us/, traffic maps
http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic,
Yahoo! Photos http://photos.yahoo.com),
and Zappos for shoes (http://www.zappos.com/welcome.zhtml?0723)
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The 2005 list is
still excellent; grouped into the following 6 categories: |
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1. Arts and Entertainment |
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1073316,00.html |
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2. Blogs |
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1072872,00.html
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3. Lifestyles, Health and Hobbies |
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1073326,00.html
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4. News and Information |
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1073329,00.html
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5. Shopping |
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1073341,00.html
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6. In a Class By Themselves |
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PC Magazine top 101 (August 15, 2006) |
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Organized into
security, computing, travel, education, reference, news, sports,
entertainment, search, lifestyle, music, photos, art, fun, games, and
shopping. |
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Webby Awards 2006
63
categories, including:
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Top 100 sites (updated hourly) |
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Financial
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- Hold or fold? |
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- Analysis, news |
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- Current status |
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- Statements |
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My favorites (most
not covered above) |
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- List of best business sites |
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- Check your connection speed |
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- Find out if your airplane will have PC power and find the best seats to choose. |
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- Movie showtimes |
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- Movie information |
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- Software downloads |
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- Pitt site-licensed software for students |
http://technology.pitt.edu/Students.aspx?mp=3&body=Students/softwareforstudents.html |
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- Digital Photography Review |
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- Another Digital Photo site |
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- Best sites list of photo sites |
http://botw.org/top/Home/Consumer_Information/Electronics/Photography/Digital_Cameras/
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- Tom’s Hardware Guide |
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- Current eruptions of |
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- Edmunds automotive guide |
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- Kelly’s Blue Book automotive guide |
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- Hoax debunking site |
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- Computer virus myths |
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- How Stuff Works |
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- Web Pages that Suck |
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- Computer Stupidities |
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- Newsgroup archives (20 years!) |
www.deja.com (Google Groups) |
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- DVD releases |
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- Free Fonts (6,500 of them!) |
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- Pitt on-line computing help and news |
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- Microsoft technical support |
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- For a view of how strange people can be. It helps me feel normal to look at these. |
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- Find a human fast in voice mail systems! |
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