15 Sites we can’t Live Without
From Google to Amazon and from Amazon to Wikipedia. Here is a list of 15 sites that we can’t live without.
The mother of all search Engines – Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail i.e Gmail, online mapping, social networking, and video sharing services.
The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California.
Youtube
YouTube, created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees, is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.
Browse by channel or category, or click to view the clips that are Top Rated or Most Discussed or Most Linked etc.
Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, is a social utility that connects people with friends and family. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and learn more about the people they meet.
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries. The website is the most popular for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily!
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it attempts to collect and summarize all human knowledge in every major language.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a United States public corporation and provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services.
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
WordPress
WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database.
WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting website, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.
Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed. As of November 2007, it claims to host more than 2 billion images and counting.
Technorati
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo! As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
The name Technorati is a blend, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.
HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks founded by professor Marshall Brain in 1998, started the site as a hobby. This website is dedicated to explaining the way many things work.
The site uses photos, diagrams, video and animation to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language.
Digg
Digg by Kevin Rose, is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users.
According to Compete.com survey Digg attracted at least 236 million visitors annually by 2008.
Stumbleupon
StumbleUpon is an internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation system which uses peer and social-networking principles.
StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests.
Ebay
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com. Its the World’s Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis.
And the charity auctions at eBay Giving Works have helped buyers and sellers raise $100 million for more than 10,000 nonprofit organizations since the program started in November 2003.
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce company in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995.
Amazon.com started as an on-line bookstore, but soon diversified to many product lines, such as music CDs, computer software, electronics, furniture, food, toys, etc, to name a few.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the world’s largest broadcasting corporation. The BBC was the first national broadcasting organisation. Founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd.
It publishes Articles and audio in more than 33 languages, worldwide.
ESPN
ESPN – founded by Scott Rasmussen, is an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. This site’s got everything a sports fanatic needs.
The details of the above mentioned sites, have either been taken from Wikipedia, or/and from the respective site itself.
Update: It seems that people are not getting the idea, the reason this list is compiled is that you always turn to one of these sites, depending upon what you are looking for; e.g, sports fanatics turn to ESPN, while Google is good for searching, etc. I hope this clears the ambiguity.
but hey i am living with technorati and facebook … and I am Alive 😀
You must be a tough guy then, not every one can live without technorati, especially FaceBook! 😉
Nice list mate . Technorati does not contain much authority these day . Thanks to spammers 😛
Google is more like a part of my life now!
For me i’d be Google, Wikipedia and youtube
Every one of these 15 sites have been top class in the category they are operating. The best I liked with google is their Google Book Search project. It is a project which aims to provide readers a preview of a lot of books online and partners with publishers to promote their books online. While the preview is limited, it helps users sample few pages before buying it online. Barnes and Nobles in US, http://www.thestorez.com in India have all implemented this Google Book Preview on their Online Bookstore which helps readers a lot to know more of what they are buying online, Great job Google!
I’ll agree with everything except BBC and HowStuffWorks. I think I use Google, Wikipedia, Technorati, and Digg at least 20 times a day.
I don’t like the look of Digg and I haven’t gotten used to nor quite yet found Technorati useful (but I think I will eventually).
The rest are dead on.
Does Yahoo cover Yahoo Answers as well? :]
What about PayPal? It changed the way money is handled. Made life so much easier for so many people, least of which all the freelancers that are doing most of the innovating for the web.
Wikipedia is the best thing the internet has led to so far, but (most of) those sites are lame and I don’t use them.
@… Most of the people, including myself, do use all of the mentioned sites.
@ Emiliano Jordan Paypal is mostly for money transferring, only people related to business or similar type, use these service but not all.
I can live without every single one of these sites.
@Brian But can you really call that living?
Google..I think any one cant survive without Google ..btw these days ppl even became fb addicts.