We have a returning Web 2.0 champion this month, facebook! We also have a few other awesome web sites that you have to check out! Improve your web experience today by checking out the top 10 sites, and seeing which ones you love the best! Let us know your comments by using the comments below the posting!
For the second month in a row, Facebook is ranked at number one for Web 2.0 companies and web sites. With traffic growing at a ridiculous rate, new users signing up by the thousands every hour, Facebook is perfectly poised to be the reigning king of Web 2.0. While myspace still has the most traffic on most accords, facebook with launching its new development platform has really propelled itself ahead of the competition.
One of the world’s largest social networking sites, Fotolog is an ever-evolving global network where members communicate and connect through photographs. A simple and fun way for anyone to express themselves on a daily basis, Fotolog allows members to easily publish an online photo diary, or photo blog, and share it worldwide.
What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability to post photos, but the ability to connect with people. While many people use Fotolog to stay in better touch with their friends and family, others use it to explore the wider Fotolog universe, discover the photos of new people from around the world, participate in group projects and, perhaps most importantly, receive personal feedback on their photos.
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As flickr’s tag lines states, flickr is the best online photo sharing application on the Internet today. It by far has the best tools for uploading your photos, organizing your photos, and sharing them with your friends and family. You can use your browser, mobile phone, PDA, and literally any device that can take pictures, to upload your photo’s to flickr. flickr then takes it to the next level by allowing you to share your pictures in a million ways!Friends and family can search the pictures on the web, subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of new pictures, sending emails from the site, and other crazy ways that you might want to suggest! If you want to share pictures, flickr is your tool!
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del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved — which is made easy with tags.
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In the old days, Google Maps would still be the new kid on the block, however, in Web 2.0 days, Google Maps is ancient. However, there is no better way to help you get from A to B quicker. Sure there are other tools on the market, some of which have been around even before Google itself, but they are terrible in comparison to the speed and ease of use! -
Because everyone shouldn’t see everything. What a great slogan, and a great way to compete with YouTube and other clones. vimeo is extremely clean and easy to use, and I love it and enjoy the experience much better than YouTube. If I want to see ridiculous videos, and read comments with people bashing each other, I use YouTube. But when I want to share a video with my family, I use vimeo. Check it out today, I guarantee you will love the site and visit it daily! -
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. But most of us never get around to making a list. 43 Things is great for that! Make a list on 43 Things and see what changes happen in your life. Best of all it’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables. So the next time someone asks you, “what do you do?” you can answer with confidence, “I am doing 43 things!”. Check out 43Things.com today! -
Zillow is an amazing real estate site! It not only provides you with actual housing value for millions of homes across the country, but it also provides an extremely visual and easy to use interface for finding the data! With its integrated mapping capabilities, you can even zoom in on the area the house is located in, and see visually the location!Zillow really gives you the edge and a great high level overview on homes and their values. If you are in the market, or just curious to what is going on in real estate, check out Zillow.com. You won’t be disappointed.
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Chances are you haven’t even heard of Farecast. Too bad. It’s awesome! Farecast.com is the first airfare prediction web site. They help online travel shoppers save money by answering the question; should you buy now or wait? They offer airfare predictions from over 75 U.S. departure cities to top domestic destinations. So next time you start wondering, should I buy my ticket now, or later, and what timeframe, just go to Farecast.com! -
Do you love podcasting? Do you love finding new and exciting podcasts to listen to? Are you a publisher of podcasts? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this is the site for you! What they are trying to build here is the ultimate podcast center on the Internet, and from the looks of things, they are succeeding! If you need to find fresh content to listen to on your iPod, or want to promote your own new podcast or music, check out Odeao.com today!
