Saturday, 8 January 2011

My most commonly used websites - add yours.....

Here are some of my top web sites.  Everyone should check these out at lease once.  Many, if not all, of these may seem obvious, but I am adding them here so I can check in a few years time to see how things have changed.  You might enjoy a similar exercise.

I spend a lot of my leisure surfing time on Facebook.  I also use the BBC for news, and am a heavy YouTube user for learning new skills.  I mainly use my own music library on iTunes, but do frequent Spotify and LastFM.  Most of my photo sharing is via Facebook, but Flickr is also a good site.  I have just started Blogging on Blogger, and am an occasional Twitter user (or Tweeter - whatever!)  I am a member of some useful groups on LinkedIn for business.  I do most of my shopping on Amazon, apart from more specialist items.  I love Stumbleupon to find new interesting web sites.

So that's about it!  I'd love to hear your additions and web habits.  Please post your comments below.

www.google.co.uk - Best search engine on the web.
www.facebook.com - Social networking, finding people, staying in touch.  Fantastic.
www.wikipedia.com - Information on anything - for free.
www.youtube.com - I find best for How to stuff.  e.g. how to play xxx on guitar.
www.bbc.co.uk - Best news website.
www.amazon.co.uk - Best shopping web site.
www.ebay.co.uk - Best auction website.
www.blogger.com - Best Blogging website.
www.findaproperty.com - Best UK property website.
www.last.fm - Great free music website.  Like your own personal radio, based on your favourite genre.
www.spotify.com - Great free music site.
www.stumbleupon.com - Takes you to great web sites based on your interests.  Great random fun.
www.flickr.com - Photo sharing website and community
www.twitter.com - don't really see the hype or use too often, but I feel I have to include it.
www.linkedin.com - Best business social networking site.
www.imdb.com - Best Movie website

Writing that was quite interesting.  I spend more time on many of these web sites, than I do watching TV.  How our habits are changing!  I may ask my son to do the same.

Also - let's have some feedback on what will be the next big thing on the web.  2011 - 2020 - what will we see.  Who will be dominant?  What new webventions will we witness.  How many near overnight Billionaires will be created?

Discuss.

Rich :-)


3 comments:

  1. eHow is another good site. I also enjoy foodnetwork.com. You can add bit.ly, it comes in handy for tweeting or to shorten and/or customize long web addresses.
    If you tweet and care to know, @tcooper4653 is my personal twitter account and my biz account is @theEDGEgeo.

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  2. I use the web most for bargain hunting, and now wont buy anything unless Ive performed a few shopbot scans on it first to check Ive got the best price! My top sites 'TopCashback' which basically gives you free money for internet shopping, and 'moneysavingexpert' is great for discounts if youre a tight@rse like me;

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  3. They sound good Max. Thanks for the tips - I'll check them our for sure :-)

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