The following is a list of websites that I use regularly and love. Browse through the list, I'm sure you'll find something useful. If you have any more that should be on here, leave them in the comments section!
News:
DrudgeReport.com - Matt Drudge has the power to make headlines, and his site, blending political, social, technological, and entertainment news is one of the most visited sites on the web. Check out his wikipedia entry and that of drudgereport.com for an interesting synopsis of his rise to media promenance.
Slate.com - An online magazine with a great cross-section of well-written articles on nearly everything.
Salon.com - Similar to Slate, see for yourself
NYTimes.com - You guessed it, the online portal for the NY Times
Alltop.com - I love the idea of this site- its a "magazine rack" that serves as a portal to blogs and magazine articles on a huge variety of topics
Slashdot.org - "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" is their slogan. A user-driven site that satifies the geek in me that wants to hear about the latest happenings of interests to "nerds". You'll understand the name if you spell aloud "http://slashdot.org".
Techcrunch.com - Follows technology and internet-based startup news
open.salon.com - Salon's website that is created by users. Front-page items determined by the community.
HuffingtonPost.com - The liberal version of the Drudge Report, with a more "progressive" and
modern interface and lots of dynamic content
Business:
Analytics.google.com - If you have a website, Analytics is the best way to track hits and monitor usage
Bnet.com - Lots of business-related articles. A good bit of it is trash, but some of the articles are insightful
Learning:
TED.com - Do yourself a favor and go there now. Videos of speakers at TED conferences, on the cutting edge of Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Design.
AcademicEarth.org - Like TED.com, but class videos of prominent academics from schools like Harvard and Yale
Random:
Mint.com - Awesome website- you give it access to your bank accounts online, and it will track all of your financials. And its free!
Elance.com & Guru.com - The place to go to outsource nearly every task on a project by project basis. Elance minimum is $50, at Guru its $25. Anything from web design, to research, to business plan writing, to getting a virtual assistant to take care of menial personal tasks is available from these website. Think outside the box and take advantage of what you can accomplish using these sites.
Stumbleupon.com - The easiest way to throw away five hours, stumbleupon opens up the web by directing to sites you'd never find otherwise but still love
Digg.com - User-driven news site, with links to articles online and ordered by the number of "diggs" each article gets
Trends.google.com - What gets more search volume, "Coke" or "Pepsi", "blue" or "green", "alpha" or "omega"
Gmail.com - C'mon people, get with the program!
Pandora.com - Internet radio station that is guaraunteed to introduce you to new artists that you'll like
Social:
Twitter.com - A new "hot" internet property that lets you read and share 140 character long snippets of life/thoughts. You can find me on twitter at http://twitter.com/carpeminutam
Facebook.com - Blah. Find me here.
Linkedin.com - Social networking for the career-minded. Find me here.
TV/Music/Etc.
Hulu.com - Watch movies, tv shows, etc. online. Best part about it: its legal! Was started by NBC, FOX, etc. to get revenue from all the people watching their shows online...
ThePirateBay.org f The place to find torrent files on the internet. You can find almost anything on this site.
uTorrent.com If you want to download torrent files, you need a bittorrent program to do so. Utorrent is on of these.
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