50 coolest websites of 2006

[Larwee]

Time magazine has released their list of the "50 Coolest Websites of 2006." Did you make the list? Do you agree with their selection?

Many on the list are what are called Web 2.0 sites. These sites make it possible for users to create and share content online. MySpace and YouTube would be such sites.

Time places the sites in their "50 Coolest Websites" into various categories.

Here is the complete list:

*Entertainment, arts and media
Drawn!
Jumpcut
Sundance Splinks
Wolfgang’s Vault
Photo Muse
Podcast Pickle
Pandora
The 9
YouTube

*Food, fads and fashion
Phone Scoop
Delicious Days
Not Martha
Shop Intuition
Kids-In-Mind
Mighty Goods
Zunafish

*News and blogs
The Morning News
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone
Charity Navigator
Footnoted
Tailrank
Deadspin
Digg
The Human Clock

*Social networks
MySpace
Google Spreadsheets
SingShot
Meebo
Dodgeball

*Gossip and games
TMZ
Shockwave
Yu-Gi-Oh Groove
Cute Overload
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas
Number Logic

*An airfare predictor and restaurant reviews
Zipcar
Farecast
Kayak
Zillow
Hop Stop
CentralPark
Yelp

*Ordering take-out, finding phone numbers
Accoona
Kosmix
Snap
Pixsy
Argali White & Yellow
Blurb
Seamless Web
McAfee SiteAdvisor

[sarahk]

I haven't even heard of 47 of them. Where have I been?

Oh, right, here and at DP and on my own sites...

[StephenR]

Where's my site?!

[Larwee]

Stephen, they only had the 50 coolest sites. Linda was probably number 51 and you were number 52.

[Larwee]

Here is a link to more details about the Time magazine "50 Coolest Websites." You can click the name of any of the 50 sites and read more details about the site. If it sounds like a site of interest to you, there is a link to the site at the top of the site details.

Here is the "50 Coolest Websites" link TIME.com: 50 Coolest Websites

[Larwee]

sarahk, while a good many of the 50 might not be well known to the majority of people, some of them are rather well known. I been trying to figure out the only 3 of these you have heard about. Which ones are they?

[sarahk]

Bear in mind I'm a Non-american geek...

*Entertainment, arts and media
YouTube

*News and blogs
Digg

*Social networks
MySpace

So we don't alot of the advertising through other mediums - in film trailers, billboards, tv etc

Which 3 did you think I'd come up with?

[Larwee]

Since some things are different in New Zealand from the United States, I am sure there are things in New Zealand that I have never heard about here in the United States.

The 3 that you mentioned didn't surprise me because they are very popular and very well known.

Actually there were six I thought you might have heard of, so I expected the 3 to be among the six. I was just trying to figure out which 3 of the 6 were the ones you had heard of.

The 6 included the 3 that you mentioned plus Google Spreadsheets, Snap and McAfee Site Advisor.

[Larwee]

I just took another look at the list and I would have thought Shockwave would have been among the possibilities also. It is something I thought was known around the world. It is relatively famous in the United States.

[sellingonline]

I knew also only 5 out of them, can't believe I'm not cool... I'm not cool.... I'm ..... *crying*