100 top sites for the year ahead: our latest selection finds that location-based services, work-anywhere collaboration and video are prominent

The online world has changed dramatically even since we last drew up a list of 100 useful sites in December 2006. In the interim, there has been a revival of the browser wars - with Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari making surprising inroads into the Windows monopoly, and offering a new vision of what browsing can be like. Many of the sites listed here were not available when we did our last list; although longevity is a mark of pride online, it is difficult for companies set up in the 1990s to reinvent themselves quickly enough to take advantage of new technologies. The biggest changes since 2006 have been in the fields of collaborative online services that let people in different locations work simultaneously on projects. The growth of location-based services - particularly those which you can choose to log yourself in and out of, thus protecting your privacy - has been rapid. Video, of course, is now everywhere. Blogging Browsers A newly revived category, thanks to Chrome and Safari.

21 Sites To Find Out What’s Hot Online | MakeUseOf.com Is it important for you to stay informed of daily news? Do you try to always be up-to-date with what people are talking about throughout the world? If “yes” is the answer to both of the questions, then today’s post on what’s hot online and how to spot internet hot trends is right for you! Use meme trackers to spot daily hot trends: Google Blogsearch that was turned into a meme tracker only a few months ago tracks memes throughout all topics and naturally has the biggest index to check.Megite separates memes into categories (technology, entertainment, business, science, etc) and often publishes completely irrelevant memes in each. Use blog search engines to spot daily hot trends: Technorati Popular gives the list of top searches and top blogs (that have become hot in the past 48 hours).BlogPulse key phrases allows for a “trend this” option that graphically represents the hot trend history. Use search engines to spot daily hot trends: Yahoo Buzz. Use Twitter tools to spot daily hot trends:

Technology | The revolution of paperless paper How the 'paperless paper' works I love reading newspapers. Really I do. But whenever I read one on the train to work or on the bus, I always seem to end up sparking complete chaos. Either the passenger sitting next to me gets it in the face with my elbow, or half the pages of my daily collapse onto the floor into an embarrassing heap which, in rush hour, is rather difficult to clear up. But soon my problems with paper could be over. At Plastic Logic's factory in Dresden, British engineer Dean Baker shows me a new kind of newspaper. What's new about it? The device looks just like a table mat, it's as light as a magazine. But onto it you can download hundreds of newspapers and - at the touch of a button - browse through them quite safely, without elbowing anyone ever again. "It's very robust," says Mr Baker. To prove it he whacks the screen with his fist. That's why the electronic newspaper is so light, flexible and revolutionary. "There's a huge amount of waste," says Mr Baker. British origins

My Boxxet Collection Copyright © 1999-2012 GoDaddy.com, LLC. All rights reserved. *One FREE .COM, .CO, .NET or .ORG with purchase of a new 12-, 24- or 36-month website builder plan. + New .COMs $7.99/yr plus 18 cents/yr ICANN fee. Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a violation of their copyrights. No one knows, because the settlement is so complex that it is difficult to perceive the legal and economic contours in the new lay of the land. When I look backward, I fix my gaze on the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment, its faith in the power of knowledge, and the world of ideas in which it operated—what the enlightened referred to as the Republic of Letters. I especially enjoy the exchange of letters between Jefferson and Madison.

Web 2.0 Directory : 900+ Web 2.0 Sites in 50+ categories : eConsultant Modify Websites For Better Reading & Printing | MakeUseOf.co Many of us are into blogs and news these days. A lot of these sites are professionally designed and easy to read, but a majority of the sites are designed keeping in mind ‘the required exposure to advertisements’. As a result, readability suffers at times. Subscribe to RSS feeds Number one on the list and an absolute must do if you are into serious reading. Readability Readability is a simple yet wonderfully useful idea. Now whenever you visit a site you would like to spend some time reading upon, just click the bookmarklet to view it according to your selected settings. Firefox – Aardvark One of my favorite extensions for Firefox, Aardvark lets you play with the structure of a webpage. Additionally you may use Ctrl + + or Ctrl + Mouse Wheel up to zoom into the page to make the text look bigger. There are a number of other options for Aardvark, it has been covered previously in detail on MakeUseOf. PrintWhatYouLike A site similar in concept to what Aardvark does. [NO LONGER WORKS] TidyRead

Webby Awards Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. See them all here. Webby Lifetime Achievement: Mayor Michael Bloomberg Webby Person of the Year: Louis C.K. Webby Artist of the Year: Björk Best Actresses of the Year: Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard of "Sh*t Girls Say" Webby Breakout of the Year: Instagram Webby Agency of the Year: BBH With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Jump to category: back to top

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