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Best Overall Websites of 2011 By truntemulleberg [1 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
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 - 5
User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page. - 6
BuzzFeed is a trends aggregator that uses a web crawler and human editors to find and link to popular stories around the web. More - 7 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
- 8 The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 10 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing. 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 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 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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Turntable.fm
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Metacritic
Reviews, quotes, and composite review scores from major critics for film, video, DVD, music, and video games. More - 15
Gawker Media
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Read Write Web
ReadWriteWeb is a blog company that publishes news regarding web technology, reviews and analysis. The company has over 250,000 RSS and email subscribers and is one of the worlds top 10 blogs according to Technorati. More - 17 Spotify has created a lightweight software application that users will simply download and then log onto their service enabling on demand streaming of music. More
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TMZ
A telepictures production and America Online joint venture that provides an inside look at the latest celebrity scandals. More - 19
Know Your Meme
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Chill
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The Daily Beast
- 22 Break.com is the premier online entertainment destination for guys with over 18,000,000 unique viewers and 500,000,000 page impressions per month (Nielsen Site Audit). Men 15-35 come to Break to enjoy the best content online, helping show over 12,000,000 videos and 5,000,000 pictures daily. Break is a private company founded in June 1998 and based in Beverly Hills, CA. Break has a strategic investment from Lionsgate Entertainment, as well as partnerships with Tivo, NBC Universal, Endemol, EA, Vivendi Games, Twisted Pictures, and Limelight Networks. Break.com is owned and operated by Break Media More
- 23 Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It has since evolved into a major internet brand with search, content verticals, and other web services. Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), incorporated in 1995, is a global Internet brand. To users, the Company provides owned and operated online properties and services (Yahoo! Properties, Offerings, or Owned and Operated sites). Yahoo! also extends its marketing platform and access to Internet users beyond Yahoo! Properties through its distribution network of third-party entities (referred to as Affiliates) who have integrated its advertising offerings into their Websites (referred to as Affiliate sites) or their other offerings. More
- 24 Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video. More
- 25 A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. More
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