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Top 5 - informative websites

Time's recent publication of their top 50 coolest websites got me thinking… it's such a contentious subject that it's perfect for our Top 5 lists. Bearing in mind this will change on almost daily basis depending on what I surf across, I decided to base my list on the top 5 most referred to sites appearing on my favourites list:

  1. BBC News (I love this site, especially because they regularly publish my winning captions and letters to the editor) With the BBC you have a voice!

  2. Google - sorry. (includes Google Mail, Google Earth, Google Analytics, Google Adwords) really sensible software if a little misguided on the ethical front.
  3. StumbleUpon - this was recently recommended to me but has already pulled me in - a fantastic way to surf pages on sites recommended by friends and like-minded people. I don't know it well enough to criticise yet, but so far so good!
  4. The Human Clock - ok this was in the Time list too - but it's a belter.
  5. Yappari off course! (OK so this is currently my most referred to for obvious reasons, but I thought if I put it top everyone would switch off - but if I left it out people would think I was making this list up - so I included it out of order, but a worthy addition to the list.) It's the only site to publish more of my articles than the BBC! OK so less editorial integrity, but still in its infancy it can only grow from strength to strength - did I mention we had a visitor from Hollywood last week!

Hey - include the urls on your lists and we'll turn them into links later (as long as it doesn't impact on our Google position too much - eh Dan ;-) 

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I’d go for something like this:

  1. BBC - great for news and sport (Probably due to the unique way it is funded…).
  2. Wikipedia - great place to find info, and if you can’t find what you were after, you can always add it!
  3. Google - of course.
  4. TalkLFC - the best Liverpool fan site around. Good source of the latest news about the club, and some decent banter.
  5. Yappari.co.uk - of course!
  1. Google - has to be number 1 for maps, mail, chat and just being Google.
  2. BBC - all the information you could ever need
  3. Wikipedia (love a wigi…)
  4. Yappari (because i don’t want my post to be removed)
  5. Amazon of course - not strictly informative but has to appear in my top 5.

Nobby - you wouldn’t have been removed - we like telling things how it is (except when there is an opportunity for us to blatantly promote the site -) ) but cheers for the thought, and the vote for Yappari - lol!

del.icio.us/popular is a great gateway to the latest happenings on the world wide interweb.



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Top 5 - informative websites

Time's recent publication of their top 50 coolest websites got me thinking… it's such a contentious subject that it's perfect for our Top 5 lists. Bearing in mind this will change on almost daily basis depending on what I surf across, I decided to base my list on the top 5 most referred to sites appearing on my favourites list:

1. BBC News (I love this site, especially because they regularly publish my winning captions and letters to the editor) With the BBC you have a voice!

2. Google - sorry. (includes Google Mail, Google Earth, Google Analytics, Google Adwords) really sensible software if a little misguided on the ethical front.

3. StumbleUpon - this was recently recommended to me but has already pulled me in - a fantastic way to surf pages on sites recommended by friends and like-minded people. I don't know it well enough to criticise yet, but so far so good!

4. Humanclock.com - ok this was in the Time list too - but it's a belter 

5. Yappari  (I know - this is currently my most referred to for obvious reasons, but I thought if I put it top everyone would switch off - but if I left it out people would think I was making this list up - so I included it out of order, but a worthy addition to the list.) It's the only site to publish more of my articles than the BBC! OK so less editorial integrity, but still in its infancy it can only grow from strength to strength - did I mention we had a visitor from Hollywood last week!

Ok - you've seen mine now show me yours! And include the urls and we'll turn them into links later (as long as it doesn't impact on our Google position too much - eh Dan ;-)  

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I’d go for something like this:

  1. BBC - great for news and sport (Probably due to the unique way it is funded…).
  2. Wikipedia - great place to find info, and if you can’t find what you were after, you can always add it!
  3. Google - of course.
  4. TalkLFC - the best Liverpool fan site around. Good source of the latest news about the club, and some decent banter.
  5. Yappari.co.uk - of course!
  1. Google - has to be number 1 for maps, mail, chat and just being Google.
  2. BBC - all the information you could ever need
  3. Wikipedia (love a wigi…)
  4. Yappari (because i don’t want my post to be removed)
  5. Amazon of course - not strictly informative but has to appear in my top 5.

del.icio.us/popular is a great gateway to the latest happenings on the world wide interweb.



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