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Guardian gazetesinden


http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet


    *Blogging/microblogging*

/Now easier than falling off a log./

*Tumblr* <http://www.tumblr.com> Multimedia microblogging plus
Twitter-style following.

*Posterous* <http://www.posterous.com> Goes from instant microblogging
into lifestreaming.

*Soup* <http://www.soup.io> A "super-easy" tumblelog for scrapbook
keeping and lifestreaming.

*Blogger* <http://www.blogger.com> Fast way to start blogging; training
wheels for Wordpress.

*Bloglines* <http://www.bloglines.com> For reading web feeds. Smart and
clean.

*Wordpress* <http://www.wordpress.com> Free, and most importantly
spam-free, blogging.


    *Browsers*

/Do we all need five browsers nowadays?/

*Chrome* <http://www.google.com/chrome> Now here for Mac, and
anticipating future world domination via Chrome OS.

*Firefox* <http://www.mozilla.com/firefox> Everyone's favourite is under
attack from all sides.

*Maxthon* <http://www.maxthon.com> Based on IE code. If it stays "hip in
China" it could reach a large global audience.


    *Cartoons*

/Everyone needs some relaxation. This is a visual one./

*Dilbert* <http://www.dilbert.com> It wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't
so true.

*XKCD* <http://www.xkcd.com> Stick-figure strip poking fun at geek
topics and relationships.


    *Celebrity gossip*

/No one needs this stuff, but it's starting to drive world news and web
traffic./

*TMZ* <http://www.tmz.com> Rose to fame when it broke news of Michael
Jackson's death.

*Perez Hilton* <http://www.perezhilton.com> Among the bitchiest of goss
sites and often involved in 'interesting' celeb baiting.

*Gawker* <http://www.gawker.com> New York-based media alert and gossip
blog network, with fingers in many pies.


    *Create/collaborate*

/With all of us now living more of our lives online, these sites just
scratch the surface./

*Netvibes* <http://www.netvibes.com> Your to-do lists, news, weather and
photos on one page.

*Scribd* <http://www.scribd.com> Shares 35bn words online: they can't
all be wrong.

*Slideshare* <http://www.slideshare.net> Like YouTube for PowerPoint decks.

*Zamzar* <http://www.zamzar.com> Useful: converts files from one format
to another.


    *Film*

/Sites to see before heading for the latest blockbuster at your local
multiplex./

*IMDb* <http://www.imdb.com>* *The most authoritative site about all
things film and TV, which is why Amazon bought it.

*Rotten Tomatoes* <http://www.rottentomatoes.com>* *Collects online film
reviews, aggregates a score out of 100 and rates the film "fresh" or
"rotten".* *

*/Film* <http://www.slashfilm.com>* *Said to be the favourite film blog
of directors Jason Reitman and Darren Aronofsky, /Film features news,
reviews, interviews and a special UK update each Friday.

*Cinematical* <http://www.cinematical.com>* *Terrific film blog with a
Hollywood focus.


    *Gaming*

/A field where handheld, bedroom and Flash games
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/games> are becoming mainstream/

*Eurogamer* <http://www.eurogamer.net> Reportage, with breadth, if not
always depth.

*The Independent Gaming Source* <http://www.tigsource.com> A great place
to pick up on tomorrow's breakthrough Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare and PSN
hits.

*Pocket Gamer* <http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk> Still by far the best site
on handheld gaming.

*Gamasutra* <http://www.gamasutra.com> Where professional games creators
hang out, and sometimes get jobs


    *Geek squad*

/Here be programmers .../

*Stack Overflow* <http://www.stackoverflow.com> Where programmers gather
to try to solve their problems.

*The Daily WTF* <http://www.thedailywtf.com> Daily dispatches from the
coding warzone.

*Joel On Software* <http://www.joelonsoftware.com> Essays by a former
Microsoftie, now head of Fog Creek Software.


    *Government/public services/politics*

*Recycle Now* <http://www.recyclenow.com> Winner after a slight false
start of the government'sShow Us A Better Way competition. What can you
recycle close by?

*British and Irish Legal Information Institute* <http://www.bailii.org>
A database of laws. Only survives hand-to-mouth on voluntary donations;
where's yours?

*What Do They Know?* <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com> Makes filing a
Freedom Of Information request as easy as sending an email. Too easy,
some in power think.

*Upmystreet* <http://www.upmystreet.com> All the detail on your area you
could ever want.

*They Work For You* <http://www.theyworkforyou.com> A site set up by
volunteers to keep tabs on our elected members of parliament -- and our
unelected peers.


    *Link economy*

/With millions of links on the web, we all need sites for sharing the
best ones./

*Digg* <http://www.digg.com> Still the reigning champion of where the
latest internet <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet> memes
are though not always polite.

*Delicious* <http://www.delicious.com> The thinking person's link
aggregation site. We use it.

*Popurls* <http://popurls.com> Aggregating the aggregators: the web in a
window.

*Metafilter* <http://www.metafilter.com> Living if isolated proof that a
site can be successful without pictures or video, and can also host
thoughtful conversations.

*Slashdot* <http://slashdot.org> Now looking venerable and old, but
"News for nerds" site with a jokey name (/.) still attracts a big, and
often knowledgable, audience.

*Techmeme* <http://techmeme.com> Technology news chosen by computer,
though it's now refined by human editors.


    *Location, location*

/Services like these blossom with a mobile phone that can access the
internet./

*Dopplr* <http://www.dopplr.com> "Share your future travel plans with
friends and colleagues", then find out if others will be there too.

*Qype* <http://www.qype.co.uk> Localised search for pubs, restaurants,
etc; also a bit of a social network.

*Loopt* <http://www.loopt.com> "Transforms your mobile phone into a
social compass".

*Brightkite* <http://brightkite.com> A "location-based social network".


    *Maps*

/The flipside of location-based services: seeing where you are./

*OpenStreetMap* <http://www.openstreetmap.org> A rights-free map created
by people like you. Remarkably detailed and precise.

*Google Maps Street View*
<http://www.maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview> Virtual tourism with
practical applications, too.


    *Money/finance/consumer fightback*

/We all need someone on our side./

*Money Saving Expert* <http://www.moneysavingexpert.com> Does what it
says on the tin.

*Say No to 0870* <http://saynoto0870.com> Direct-dial numbers, not
expensive national-rate ones.

*Consumer Direct* <http://consumerdirect.gov.uk> Government site for
consumers.


    *Music*

*Last.fm* <http://www.last.fm> British-made, now CBS-owned, music
recommendation station.

*Amazon* <http://www.amazon.co.uk> Now has its own MP3 store in the UK
as well as the US.

*Hype Machine* <http://hypem.com> Picks up the latest news by tracking
the music blogs.

*Pitchfork* <http://pitchfork.com> The magazine of the music web, now
with video, and lots of great lists.


    *Offbeat*

*The Onion* <http://www.theonion.com> Still the satirical newspaper of
record. If it's not in the Onion, it's probably happened.

*B3TA* <http://b3ta.com> Beyond classification; its forum has spawned
many memes ... and more than its fair share of trolls.

*Lolcats* <http://icanhascheezburger.com> respite from stress with daft
cCaptioned cats and other animals.

*News Lite* <http://newslite.tv> respite from stress with daft cGreat
source of news that's much too trivial to print.

*Oddee* <http://oddee.com> Setting an internet standard for sets of
curious and mildly amusing pictures, not cats.

*PostSecret* <http://postsecret.blogspot.com> Notes of secrets sent by
people who want them posted. So they are.

*Passive-Aggressive Notes* <http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com> Would
it be too much trouble for you to have a look?


    *Photography*

*Flickr* <http://www.flickr.com> The granddaddy of photo-sharing sites.

*Picnik* <http://www.picnik.com> Photo editing in your browser.

*Picasa* <http://picasa.com> Google's photo organisation and editing tool.

*DPreview* <http://dpreview.com> The web's best guide to cameras. Now
Amazon owned.


    *Reference*

*CIA Factbook*
<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html>
All the data you need on pretty much anywhere.

*Wikipedia* <http://en.wikipedia.org> en.wikipedia.com the gradually
growing user-edited encyclopaedia is Still a first port of call on most
topics.

*Internet Archive/Wayback Machine* <http://www.archive.org> The web in
aspic. Useful for research into how the web used to look.

*Metacritic* <http://www.metacritic.com> Aggregates reviews of movies
and DVDs, TV programmes, music and games

*Wikileaks* <http://wikileaks.org> Anonymous source of a huge range
ofleaked documents. If you dig, there's something important there


    *Search*

/Google dominates but Bing is challenging, and Yahoo and Microsoft are
left in the dust./

*Google* <http://www.google.com> So good it's become almost synonymous
with search.

*Bing* <http://www.bing.com> Microsoft would like you to bing it, but
its "decision engine" still has a long way to go.

*Wolfram Alpha* <http://www.wolframalpha.com> An "answer engine"that
delivers when it has the data, but not that easy to use.


    *Social software*

/Two years ago it was nascent; now it's embedded in our culture. Chances
are high you're a member of at least one, and perhaps all, of these sites./

*Facebook* <http://www.facebook.com> Still changing and growing to
become not just your home on the web, but your ID provider.

*LinkedIn* <http://www.linkedin.com> Contact sports for business users.

*Ning* <http://www.ning.com> One place to start your own social network
-- just as Madonna did -- though it has yet to really take off.


    *Travel*

*Expedia* <http://www.expedia.co.uk>* *Still the daddy when it comes to
travel sites, and particularly good if you can bundle a flight with a
hotel and other services.

*TripAdvisor* <http://www.tripadvisor.com>* *Essential reading for the
user reviews of hotels, but it now covers much more.

*Laterooms* <http://www.laterooms.com>* *Specialises in hotel discounts.


    *Twitter, and associated*

/Twitter has proved itself over and over this year, from the Chinese
earthquke to the Mumbai attacks to the Madoff fraud as a vector for news./

*Twitter* <http://www.twitter.com> The ur-site, where you can create an
identity (or several).

*Twitter Tim.es* <http://www.twittertim.es> Creates your personal
newspaper based on your friend's tweets.

*Twitterfeed* <http://twitterfeed.com> Posts blog contents to Twitter.

*TwitterCounter* <http://twittercounter.com> Graphs the growth in your
followers.

*Twitterfall* <http://twitterfall.com> Tracks trending topics; enables
custom searches.

*Listorious* <http://listorious.com> Twitter lists make it simple to
follow large groups of Twitter users, and Listorious makes it easy to
find the best lists.


    *Video*

*YouTube* <http://www.youtube.com> Dominant provider of video content
online.

*Vimeo* <http://vimeo.com> Better rights control than YouTube and a
cleaner interface

*BBC iPlayer* <http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer> The king of the online
catchup services.

*Hulu* <http://www.hulu.com> The networks fight back with their own
video site, which may make the UK in 2010. We hope.

*Videojug* <http://www.videojug.com> The motherlode of instructional
videos, all in one place.


    *Virtual worlds <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/virtualworlds>*

*Second Life* <http://secondlife.com> Continues to exist and is,
apparently, still popular, but not the media darling it was.

*Entropia Universe* <http://www.entropiauniverse.com> Set in a distant
future on the untamed planet of Calypso.

*Club Penguin* <http://clubpenguin.com> Minigame-tastic virtual world
for youngkids.

*Moshi Monsters* <http://www.moshimonsters.com> "Educational" virtual
world for kids.


    *Visual arts*

*Saatchi Gallery* <http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk> Gallery, listings
and artworks for sale.

*Art Daily* <http://artdaily.org> The first "art newspaper" on the net.

*Culture 24* <http://www.culture24.org.uk> Everything about UK galleries
and museums.


    *Visualisation*

*Information is Beautiful* <http://www.informationisbeautiful.net>
Creating effective infographics is one of today's key skills, and on
this site, it's also an art.

*Infosthetics.com* <http://infosthetics.com> An archive of some of the
finest examples of "information aesthetics".

*DabbleDB* <http://dabbledb.com> Create online databases and analyse them.

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Mustafa Akgul

CE'70, Math/OR '74