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Best Overall Websites of 2011 By Angie Marie [41 more lists]
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Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called ;Explore for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks. The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo. In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage. More - 2
Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the worlds information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of tools and platforms including its more popular products: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free because Google makes its money from highly integrated online advertising through its AdWords and AdSense platforms. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information. More - 3
On February 4th, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social network that was at the time exclusively for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for the term Facebook came from Zuckerbergs high school (Phillips Exeter Academy). The Exeter Face Book was passed around to every student as a way for students to get to know their classmates for the following year. It was a physical paper book until Zuckerberg brought it to the internet. More - 4
ESPN
ESPN.com is an online American sports portal covering the NFL, NBA, MLB, MLS, European Soccer, college sports, and much more. More - 5
BuzzFeed is a trends aggregator that uses a web crawler and human editors to find and link to popular stories around the web. More - 6
Tumblr is a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick, mixed-media posts. The service hopes to do for the tumblelog what services like LiveJournal and Blogger did for the blog. The difference is that its extreme simplicity will make luring users a far easier task than acquiring users for traditional weblogging. Anytime a user sees something interesting online, they can click a quick ;Share on Tumblr bookmarklet that then tumbles the snippet directly. The result is varied string of media ranging links and text to pictures and videos that takes very little time and effort to maintain. There is little to no learning curve involved in using tumblr. Features are intuitive and quick to establish. More - 7 User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page.
- 8 Hosts user-generated videos. Includes network and professional content. More
- 9 The Onion is an American ;fake news organization. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website. More
- 10 The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 10 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing. More
- 11 Flat monthly fee by mail service.
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NFL.COM
Official site of the National Football League. It delivers in-depth team pages for all clubs, game-day coverage with real time statistics and play-by-play and chats with top players. More
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