Top 10 Best Website of 2010
13-Jan-11 08:19
Last week on BFM 89.9 The Business Station, we did a round up of top 10 best website of 2010 in no particular order. Here's the breakdown of that list. Do also check out the podcast here.
Drop.io
If you need to send someone a huge file or files (that amount to less than 100MB), drop it or them on Drop.io. You'll get an URL to send out for easy downloading by others. You can password protect the file, and make sure it disappears in a day, a week, or a year. Upgrade and you can take even more control of your drops.
*Please note that Drop.io is now deactivated. Another great service is called YouSendIt. Check out yousendit.com
Boing Boing
Boing Boing is one of my simple pleasures. It used to refer to itself as "a directory of wonderful things," though they may have dropped this tag – it still is. The authors, and their frequent guests amaze us me an all the time with their pop cultural findings.
Kayak
Kayak is the travel metasearch to end all travel metasearches, drawing flight, car, and hotel deals from company sites and fellow aggregators, such as Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, and Travelocity. If there's a travel deal to be had, you'll find it here.
Imagine putting together a list of top Web sites and not including one that has 500 million members. We can't either. That's why this über-social network, which is so big there's even a movie about its founding, is listed here. Addicting and controversial Facebook, for some, is synonymous with the word "Internet."
Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging platform for the Twitter generation. Follow other tumblelogs, re-blog posts, "like" your favourites—if you can manage a Facebook account, you can navigate this ultra-simple platform. Tumblr is also great for multimedia posts — photos, audio, video, chats, whatever.
Ars Technica
When it comes to tech news, Ars Technica doesn't mess around. The site offers some of the most consistently hard-hitting and informative coverage on the industry. The site may be a bit too "inside" for more casual readers, but anyone with a genuine interest in the world of technology ought to add Ars to their RSS feed.
Atlas Obscura
The tagline for Atlas Obscura is, "A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica." If that abstract made your spine all tingly, read on. If you fell asleep before "Esoterica," it's probably best to move on to the next site on the list. Atlas Obscura is a truly wonderful collection of the world's most oddly fascinating exotic locales, from raining fish to ancient churches to mummies right in your own backyard. If this site doesn't make you want to get out of the house, it's time to check your pulse.
How is Life Today
What's the state of the world today? I mean it, actually-how does the last 24 hours rate, globally? How is Life Today lets users vote whether the latest news stories Suck or Rock. The responses are calculated, forming the basis of the day's Suck-o-Meter. As of this recording, the day is "Reasonably balanced." thanks to stories like "Affleck’s Town movie tops US box office" and "Obama says no to solar panels on the Whitehouse." The Statistics page lets you graph the ‘suckage’ on an hourly, weekly, and monthly basis.
Every morning I visit two sites religiously. Google news, and Reddit. Reddit does something that many other websites have tried. It aggregates content and it cultivates a lively community. And it does it well. The site may look a little simple to first-time visitors but dig a little deeper and you’ll realise that you can tailor the feeds to your needs and engage in lively debates about recent posts, with the hope of building your own ‘Karma’.
Wikileaks
No list this year would be complete without mentioning Wikileaks. Compelling and controversial it’s a site that just a year or so ago was almost unknown unless you were ‘in the know’. Now it’s a site that has become so influential, so controversial, that it’s been knocked offline by it’s US hosts – only to be picked up by other mirrors worldwide. This lead to a series of attacks by wikileaks supporters resulting in ‘Operation Payback’ what some have termed the beginning of the ‘Internet wars’. Visa, Mastercard, Paypal all knocked offline in retaliation...
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