How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates—some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips. Think we missed one? Send us your thoughts and we'll post a selection of your comments online. There's always next year. By MARYANNE MURRAY BUECHNER
ENTERTAINMENT, ARTS & MEDIA
A variety of amusements, from classic rock to famous photography, collage art to custom radio, plus our favorite video web logs
Drawn!
Jumpcut
Sundance Splinks
Wolfgang's Vault
Photo Muse
Podcast Pickle
Pandora
The 9
YouTube
SHOPPING, LIFESTYLES & HOBBIES
Yummy food, Hollywood fashion and helping hands for those do-it-yourself projects
Phone Scoop
Delicious Days
Not Martha
Shop Intuition
Kids-In-Mind
Mighty Goods
Zunafish
NEWS & INFORMATION
The Web's best war correspondent, a snarky sports blog, the pioneers of "social news" more
The Morning News
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone
Charity Navigator
Footnoted
Tailrank
Deadspin
Digg
The Human Clock
STAYING CONNECTED
A humming social network, community sing-along, instant-messaging hub, mobile-launched pub-crawls and numbers-crunching by committee
MySpace
Google Spreadsheets
SingShot
Meebo
Dodgeball
TIME WASTERS
Juicy celebrity gossip, mindless computer games and other guilty pleasures
TMZ
Shockwave
Yu-Gi-Oh Groove
Cute Overload
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas
Number Logic
TRAVEL & REAL ESTATE
An airfare predictor and subway guide, restaurant reviews and car sharing
Zipcar
Farecast
Kayak
Zillow
HopStop
CentralPark
Yelp
WEB SEARCH & SERVICES
Ordering take-out, finding phone numbers and a slew of alternative search engines
Accoona
Kosmix
Snap
Pixsy
Argali White & Yellow
Blurb
Seamless Web
McAfee SiteAdvisor
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2 comments:
I was doing some research on web-based messaging and found your blog :)
Just wanted to tell you about messaging on a cell phone. I started using the Amsterdam based eBuddy (http://www.ebuddy.com); it works and it's free! Great for messaging on the go!
eBuddy offers web based messaging (MSN, Yahoo, AIM) on computer and cell phone. The design is a bit different from other services: a tab mode.
Read that eBuddy has over 30 million users worldwide. But over here in France it is not very famous yet. How about the US? Or don't you guys like European stuff? ;)
Kool IM is a great IM website.
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