2009 Global 50 Best Sites

From Sina Science and Technology report, the United States "time" weekly 2009 "50 Best Sites", photo-sharing site Flickr, social bookmarking site delicious, microblogging site Twitter, Google and video site YouTube, etc. on the list.

The following is a list of the 50 best websites of the Time magazine for the year 2009:

1. Flickr, photo sharing website

Provide digital photo online storage services, divided into free and paid two kinds. In addition to sharing photos on Flickr, users can also use them as a storage space for their blog images. Flickr is popular because of its innovative online social tools to label and navigate photos. Flickr was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.

2. California coastline, a personal website collecting aerial photos of the California coastline

Providing aerial photos of the California coastline, a man, a helicopter and a digital camera are all their equipment.

3. Delicious, social bookmark sharing website

Free social networking service, unlike other bookmarking sites, delicious is mainly used to share and exchange bookmarks with others. Delicious was launched at the end of 2003 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.

4. MetaFilter, social media recommended website

There are currently a number of polling and comment sites, such as Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon, but MetaFilter is one of only one by one worthy of participation, although it will cost 5 of dollars.

5. Popurls, social news sharing website

Digging news from the Internet is a difficult thing to do, first by the birth of a bookmark, then by the RSS reader, and the emergence of popurls to a large extent to solve the problem. Popurls is committed to the collection of popular web sites, will be some popular Internet information collection of well-known websites, real-time updates, so that users in the shortest possible time to understand the latest developments.

6. Twitter, micro-blogging site

The micro-blogging service allows users to send their latest developments and ideas to mobile phones and personalized site groups in the form of short messages. Although only 140 characters are supported, Twitter is increasingly important in breaking news events.

7. Skype, Internet telephony tools website

Skype, the world's most popular free internet phone, was bought in 2005 by ebay at $4.2 billion.

8. Boing Boing, a blog site focused on the Internet and geek culture

It was originally a magazine, started in 1988, turned into a website in 1995, and became a blog site in 2000, covering technology, futuristic and science fiction.

9. Academic Earth, university course video sharing website

The teaching materials of the prestigious universities are provided so that people all over the world have access to the education of the highest institutions. At present, the universities that support academic Earth include MIT, Harvard and Princeton University.

OpenTable, dinner Reservation website

Founded in 1998, headquartered in San Francisco, United States, is a hotel reservation service site, the number of U.S. restaurants with a contract of 10,000. This May initial public offering (IPO) was priced at $20.

Google, search engine

The world's largest search engine, in addition to search, its range of services include e-mail, instant messaging (IM), and online office. Its sub brands also include bloggers, Picasa and SketchUp.

YouTube, video sharing website

Google's video site, July U.S. independent user access to 85.1 million, become the United States the fourth largest Web site.

Wolframalpha, a search engine known as "Google Killer"

This year, a new search engine, known as the "Google Killer." A deal with Microsoft this month has just been agreed to allow Bing to display Wolfram Alpha's search results directly.

Hulu, HD TV program website

The video site, jointly created by NBC Universal, News Corp and private equity fund Providence Equity, offers free TV and movies to users. At the end of April this year, Hulu gained a content mandate from Disney, while Disney won a nearly 30% per cent stake in Hulu.

Vimeo, HD video site

Provide high-definition video storage services to support e-mail uploads, allowing users to transfer video from mobile devices to Vimeo and share them with others anytime, anywhere.

Fora TV, a video site focused on intellectuals and industry elites

A video site that provides interactive and retrieval services where users can search for speech videos from well-known writers, leaders, activists and thinkers on fora TV.

Craiglook, website for Craigslist based on the taxonomy website

Craigslist is one of the most useful classifieds sites, and Craiglook is a hybrid of Craigslist, adding a number of Web 2.0 elements.

Shop Goodwill, Price concessions C2C Trading website

Compared with ebay, shop goodwill is an unknown auction site, but there are no lack of "treasures."

Amazon, all-inclusive's online shopping website

Virtual large shopping malls, with unlimited shelf space. With such a large scale, Amazon has become the preferred online sales market for all goods.

Kayak, a convenient and fast travel search site,

Tourism search engines, whether travelocity,expedia or Orbitz, use data from kayak. By capturing data from airlines, hotels, and online travel websites, kayak can provide users with hundreds of airline tickets.

Netflix, movie rentals and viewing sites

The largest U.S. DVD online leasing service company, the user's monthly rental fee between 9 dollars to 17 U.S. dollars, the same time can be rented one to three DVDs. At the same time, users are free to enjoy unlimited movies and TV programs.

Etsy, Handicraft products Trading website

Etsy is a handicraft online trading website where users can shop and sell their handicrafts.

PropertyShark.com, real Estate information website

The network real Estate service company, provides the rich property information, the user may inquire through various ways.

Redfin, real Estate Trading website

The network real Estate service company, the biggest characteristic is exempts the intermediary, provides with the real estate agent company the same data.

Wikipedia, Social encyclopedia website

Founded in 2001, it is a free, free, open encyclopedia, and anyone can edit any article or entry in Wikipedia.

Internet Archive, to view the previous pages of famous websites, known as the "Internet Archive"

Internet Archive Web site's mission is to back up the Internet, users can view the previous pages of famous sites, known as the "Internet Archive", currently has 85 billion web pages stored.

Kiva, a micro-credit website based on Peer-to-peer concept

Based on the Peer-to-peer concept of microfinance websites, through Kiva, users are lending money to the poor who are in dire need of money, even if only 25 dollars.

ConsumerSearch, collect product reviews of the shopping Guide website

Collect product reviews of the shopping Guide website. There is no shortage of product comment information on the internet, even some too much, and ConsumerSearch's task is to collect these product reviews for consumer reference.

Metacritic, film critic and commentary website

Film review and Commentary website. Heard a good album, saw a good movie, if can't help but want to express some views, Metacritic the best place. You can also see comments from other people there.

Pollster, survey results analysis website

Survey results Analysis website. During the 2009 U.S. presidential election, the political website fivethirtyeight.com the success of Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election through the baseball game data. Barak Pollster also collects such data and provides users with a web interface for further processing of the results.

Facebook, social networking sites

The world's hottest social networking site. Compete, a research firm, showed that the number of independent U.S. users visited 122.7 million this July. By contrast, the number of independent user visits to MySpace is only 59.6 million.

Pandora and Last.fm, the popular social networking radio site

Two popular social networking radio sites that can help users quickly find music tracks that match their mood. If you encounter a music track that you don't like, users can click "Fast-forward" and jump to the next track.

Musicovery, you can learn the user's music taste of the network Radio website

According to the mood to discover new songs, through the free Internet radio to browse different styles and times of music.

Spotify, Network music Radio website

The Swedish streaming music website has just received an investment from the Lee Ka Shing Foundation this month.

Supercook, home recipe sharing website

Home recipe sharing site. Unlike the traditional way of cooking, Supercook's approach is to open the fridge, look at the existing raw materials, and then enter the ingredients into the Search dialog box, Supercook will give the appropriate recipes.

Yelp, a website that collects reviews of restaurants, bars, shops, etc.

Collect comments on users ' places such as restaurants, bars, shops, etc. Yelp's data suggest that one person cannot please everyone, and that one of the best things can be criticized, but the user will still gain.

Visuwords, an addictive English word learning website

English word Learning website, the graph form inquires the word Association service. When you enter a word, you can return related words and phrases. It is very convenient to learn synonyms and antonyms.

Couchsurfing, a social networking site focused on surfing.

Social networking sites are just Couchsurfing's sideline, couchsurfing mainly to help people find free accommodation around the world, so that everyone can travel around the world and participate in cultural exchanges.

Babynamewizard.com ' s Namevoyager, a reference site to name your baby

A reference website to name your baby, it can help you find out how many people named "Erin" to avoid duplication.

Mint, financial management, billing website

Free financial management, accounting website, can help users to analyze the consumption habits, planning budget, proposed savings proposals.

TripIt, Travel planning website

Travel Planning Web site. Users only need to mail delivery of their travel flights, hotels and car rental and other booking information, TripIt will automatically add maps, the local weather and direction and other information.

Aardvark, a website that asks questions to friends or friends.

Aardvark is a new search tool that allows users to consult with friends or other people about problems. Users can submit any questions they want to know through the platform and get answers from other users who know the answer. At the same time, Aardvark also sends the user questions that other people ask.

Drop.io, a file-sharing web site based on cloud computing technology

Free network hard drive, full function. Allow users to upload, delete files, set the network hard disk shutdown time, custom network style, hidden network disk real address, set the network disk password.

Issuu, Web magazine website

Issuu is a shared site that supports local uploads and online reading of PDF books, Issuu is rich in resources and can be found in many well-known PDF electronic magazines.

Photosynth, a virtual reality site based on pictures

Photosynth is a photo processing system launched by Microsoft, through the core of the image extraction analysis algorithm, a large number of related to different sources from different perspectives of two-dimensional photo processing into three-dimensional attributes of the stereo scene.

Omgpop, web Games website

The most fascinating free games site for games that can be played with friends or new acquaintances.

Worldwidetelescope, a website of astronomy enthusiasts who gathered the world's most famous telescope data

Like Google Earth, Worldwidetelescope collects vast amounts of astronomical data from large telescopes around the world, creating a vast virtual space for users to query.

Fonolo, help users to call the website of the Customer service hotline

Help users to call the website of the customer service hotline. When you call a large company, you will often hear the "English please press 1, Chinese press 2" similar to the long tip, through the Fonolo can completely solve this problem. And, if there is a quarrel with customer service, Fonolo can also record.

Get high now, focus on the science web site of the brain

The science website, which focuses on the brain, provides 40 audio and video illusions that help people understand.

Know Your Meme, a video weekly website that explains internet pop culture

To explain the online popular culture of video sites, once every 2 weeks, on the network of interesting events to explain and analysis.

English Original: Best Websites 2009