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Best Overall Websites of 2011 By LaurieM [62 more lists]
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Hosts user-generated videos. Includes network and professional content. 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
RottenTomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website that aggregates movie reviews from all over the web, and assigns red fresh tomatoes to good reviews, and rotten green tomatoes for bad reviews. 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
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 - 8 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
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IMDB
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is a HUGE collection of movie information. They try to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web. We then do our best to present this information in a manner that is easy to search and access. The IMDb started as a hobby project by an international group of movie fans, essentially something by movie fans for movie fans. And despite their growth they retain that sensibility. They store over 15 million individual film/TV credits. More - 10 Ustream.tv is a live video community for everyone. Anyone with a computer, an Internet connection and a web cam can set up their own channel and broadcast live. The site launched in March 2007 and was the second live streaming site after Stickam.com. The site has attracted tech celebs Robert Scoble and Chris Pirillo. Ustream can be used by many different kinds of people for many different purposes. More
- 11 Ranker hooks users up to an intuitive interface and a database with over 5 million items, which they can use to easily create and share lists. Lists are also the basis for an extensive system of ratings, reviews and recommendations on Ranker. More
- 12 Pitchfork media is an internet publication focusing on indie music. The content includes criticism, commentary, music news, and artist interviews. More
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Slashfilm.com
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