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searching | socializing | entertaining | informing | writing | interacting | designing | playing | laughing
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do" (Andrew Carnegie)
searching
√ Cuil, "the world's biggest search engine" with more than 121 billion URLs searched
√ Eccellio, excellent faceting search and science minor
√ Google, founded in 1998 and currently indexing more than 8 billion URLs
√ Internet Archive, Way Back Machine for visiting archived Websites back circa 1999
√ Ixquick, metasearch engine with useful Results Seen Before feature
√ KartOO, metasearch engine that presents its results on a visual map
√ SearchEngineWatch, the source for search engine marketing information
socializing
√ 8tracks, founded in 2006 and launched 2008, for creating and sharing music mixes
√ bebo, launched 2005, social networking acronym for "blog early, blog often"
√ delicious, launched 2003, allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages
√ doodle, incorporated in 2008, for coordinating group events and polls
√ facebook, launched 2004, supporting 132M visitors in June, 2008
√ flickr, launched 2004, image and video hosting Website that claims 3B images
√ google docs, rolled out 2005-2007 as separate pieces of collaborative "office" applications
√ linkedin, launched 2003, as business-oriented social networking site (3.2M visitors)
√ minekey, founded in 2005, discussion network spanning other top social networks
√ myspace, launched 2003, social networking Website in competition with facebook for users
√ ning, launched 2005, serving more than 275,000 networks
√ pandora, launched 2000, part of the Music Genome Project (capturing ~400 music attributes)
√ photobucket, allowing shared photographs and videos, tagging, commenting
√ playlist, founded in 2006, for music search and sharing
√ plaxo, reporting 20M users in May 2008
√ shelfari, supporting social cataloging, tagging, discussion of books
√ tagcloud, launched 2005, building tagging representations of your information (under construction)
√ twendx, exploring twitter conversations and sentiment (searching for "learning")
√ twitter, allowing "micro-blogging" or short messages to a network of people
√ youtube, allowing shared videos, tagging, and commenting
√ zoho, supporting shared editing of spreadsheets, presentations, databases, documents
entertaining
√ allmusic, created in 1995, boasts 8.5M relational links on entertainers, albums, genres
√ ephemeral films | Prelinger Archives of advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films
√ filmsite, including 100 Best Films of the 20th Century
√ hulu, online video service with more than 100 content providers
√ Internet Movie Database, started in 1990 as a set of Unix shell scripts
√ io9, blogger appropriately self-described as being "strung out on science fiction"
√ Metacritic film, music, game, and book reviews
√ Rotten Tomatoes movies, games, reviews, and previews of more than 100K titles
√ This American life, Chicago public radio episode archive
informing
√ 1stHeadlines from multiple international news sources
√ AlterNet, progressive online news magazine and community
√ Newseum, interactive museum of news celebrating the American First Amendment
√ Newsmap visually reflects the daily space of the Googe News aggregator
√ News Now, the leading provider of Internet press cuttings and real-time news services
"First say to yourself what you would be,
and then do what you have to do" (Epictetus)
writing
√ Amazon, the earth's most customer centric company, founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos
√ APA Formatting & Style Guide, the OWL @ Purdue resource
√ AskOxford, Oxford Dictionaries Word of the day, Quote of the week, and Ask the experts
√ Bartleby (after Melville's short story), great books online, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus
√ Biblical Resources Search, Mark Goodacre's award-winning all-in-one search engine
√ Britannica, three encyclopedias, images, magazines, Websites, and Merriam-Webster
√ FindArticles, 5M articles from leading academic, industry, and general interest publications
√ KnowPlay Reference Search, includes thesaurus, rhyming, and quotation lookup
√ MIT eTheses, MIT Libraries' selected masters and doctoral theses online
√ OneLook Dictionary, almost 8 million words in 975 online dictionaries
√ Online Etymology Dictionary, eccentric (from Gk. ekkentros "out of the center") word collection
interacting
√ CanSouth.org, bringing together Canadians across North Carolina
√ Exploris Middle School
√ Farmington Woods Elementary School
√ Raleigh Charter High School
designing
√ Andy Foulds Design | freelance flash Website designer
√ Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager | wonderful numerical-chronological data-retrieval interface
√ global mechanic | we make art work
√ Groundswell | constructing the contemporary landscape of 23 open spaces
√ hillmancurtis, inc. | new media designers, making the invisible visible
√ kurzweilAI.net | relational database of AI articles by theBrain visualization group
√ Prezi | the zooming editor for alternative presentations
√ Typetester | compare fonts for the screen
√ Visualization, Periodic Table of | visual-literacy.org on visual representations
√ Visual Elements, arts/sciences collaboration supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry
√ we feel fine | an exploration of human emotion, in six movements
playing
√ dog paddle | virtual mindlessness in the shape of a blue ball
√ elevatormoods | designers with considerable time on their hands
√ LAB.mathieu-badimon.com | pointless play but gorgeous Flash
√ Perpetual BubbleWrap under "useless" at urban75.com (must have more!)
√ Virtual Stapler | revolutionary online stapler simulation
√ Virtual Whiteboard & Chalkboard | platinum visual systems
√ Vectorpark Ball | play fetch with a three-legged apostrophe
"The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul,
to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into
the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony" (Mary Baker Eddy)
laughing
√ Book-a-Minute bedtime, when you've no time "for your children and a good book"
√ Despair, Inc. and their Demotivators collection
√ DO NOT PRESS | alternative red button exercise
√ Hello... I'm sorry.. I like you! make your selection and press the red button
√ HEMA - online winkelen | consumer products gone mad
√ Hoops&Yoyo | Hallmark's most interesting invention
√ Modern Living | Neurotica series (don't ask; just experience)
√ NaDa™ 0.5 | Does nothing for everybody. And it's free
