Guradian gazetesinden
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet *Blogging/microblogging* /Now easier than falling off a log./ *Tumblr* <http://www.tumblr.com> Multimedia microblogging plus Twitter-style following. *Posterous* <http://www.posterous.com> Goes from instant microblogging into lifestreaming. *Soup* <http://www.soup.io> A "super-easy" tumblelog for scrapbook keeping and lifestreaming. *Blogger* <http://www.blogger.com> Fast way to start blogging; training wheels for Wordpress. *Bloglines* <http://www.bloglines.com> For reading web feeds. Smart and clean. *Wordpress* <http://www.wordpress.com> Free, and most importantly spam-free, blogging. *Browsers* /Do we all need five browsers nowadays?/ *Chrome* <http://www.google.com/chrome> Now here for Mac, and anticipating future world domination via Chrome OS. *Firefox* <http://www.mozilla.com/firefox> Everyone's favourite is under attack from all sides. *Maxthon* <http://www.maxthon.com> Based on IE code. If it stays "hip in China" it could reach a large global audience. *Cartoons* /Everyone needs some relaxation. This is a visual one./ *Dilbert* <http://www.dilbert.com> It wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't so true. *XKCD* <http://www.xkcd.com> Stick-figure strip poking fun at geek topics and relationships. *Celebrity gossip* /No one needs this stuff, but it's starting to drive world news and web traffic./ *TMZ* <http://www.tmz.com> Rose to fame when it broke news of Michael Jackson's death. *Perez Hilton* <http://www.perezhilton.com> Among the bitchiest of goss sites and often involved in 'interesting' celeb baiting. *Gawker* <http://www.gawker.com> New York-based media alert and gossip blog network, with fingers in many pies. *Create/collaborate* /With all of us now living more of our lives online, these sites just scratch the surface./ *Netvibes* <http://www.netvibes.com> Your to-do lists, news, weather and photos on one page. *Scribd* <http://www.scribd.com> Shares 35bn words online: they can't all be wrong. *Slideshare* <http://www.slideshare.net> Like YouTube for PowerPoint decks. *Zamzar* <http://www.zamzar.com> Useful: converts files from one format to another. *Film* /Sites to see before heading for the latest blockbuster at your local multiplex./ *IMDb* <http://www.imdb.com>* *The most authoritative site about all things film and TV, which is why Amazon bought it. *Rotten Tomatoes* <http://www.rottentomatoes.com>* *Collects online film reviews, aggregates a score out of 100 and rates the film "fresh" or "rotten".* * */Film* <http://www.slashfilm.com>* *Said to be the favourite film blog of directors Jason Reitman and Darren Aronofsky, /Film features news, reviews, interviews and a special UK update each Friday. *Cinematical* <http://www.cinematical.com>* *Terrific film blog with a Hollywood focus. *Gaming* /A field where handheld, bedroom and Flash games <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/games> are becoming mainstream/ *Eurogamer* <http://www.eurogamer.net> Reportage, with breadth, if not always depth. *The Independent Gaming Source* <http://www.tigsource.com> A great place to pick up on tomorrow's breakthrough Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare and PSN hits. *Pocket Gamer* <http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk> Still by far the best site on handheld gaming. *Gamasutra* <http://www.gamasutra.com> Where professional games creators hang out, and sometimes get jobs *Geek squad* /Here be programmers .../ *Stack Overflow* <http://www.stackoverflow.com> Where programmers gather to try to solve their problems. *The Daily WTF* <http://www.thedailywtf.com> Daily dispatches from the coding warzone. *Joel On Software* <http://www.joelonsoftware.com> Essays by a former Microsoftie, now head of Fog Creek Software. *Government/public services/politics* *Recycle Now* <http://www.recyclenow.com> Winner after a slight false start of the government'sShow Us A Better Way competition. What can you recycle close by? *British and Irish Legal Information Institute* <http://www.bailii.org> A database of laws. Only survives hand-to-mouth on voluntary donations; where's yours? *What Do They Know?* <http://www.whatdotheyknow.com> Makes filing a Freedom Of Information request as easy as sending an email. Too easy, some in power think. *Upmystreet* <http://www.upmystreet.com> All the detail on your area you could ever want. *They Work For You* <http://www.theyworkforyou.com> A site set up by volunteers to keep tabs on our elected members of parliament -- and our unelected peers. *Link economy* /With millions of links on the web, we all need sites for sharing the best ones./ *Digg* <http://www.digg.com> Still the reigning champion of where the latest internet <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet> memes are though not always polite. *Delicious* <http://www.delicious.com> The thinking person's link aggregation site. We use it. *Popurls* <http://popurls.com> Aggregating the aggregators: the web in a window. *Metafilter* <http://www.metafilter.com> Living if isolated proof that a site can be successful without pictures or video, and can also host thoughtful conversations. *Slashdot* <http://slashdot.org> Now looking venerable and old, but "News for nerds" site with a jokey name (/.) still attracts a big, and often knowledgable, audience. *Techmeme* <http://techmeme.com> Technology news chosen by computer, though it's now refined by human editors. *Location, location* /Services like these blossom with a mobile phone that can access the internet./ *Dopplr* <http://www.dopplr.com> "Share your future travel plans with friends and colleagues", then find out if others will be there too. *Qype* <http://www.qype.co.uk> Localised search for pubs, restaurants, etc; also a bit of a social network. *Loopt* <http://www.loopt.com> "Transforms your mobile phone into a social compass". *Brightkite* <http://brightkite.com> A "location-based social network". *Maps* /The flipside of location-based services: seeing where you are./ *OpenStreetMap* <http://www.openstreetmap.org> A rights-free map created by people like you. Remarkably detailed and precise. *Google Maps Street View* <http://www.maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview> Virtual tourism with practical applications, too. *Money/finance/consumer fightback* /We all need someone on our side./ *Money Saving Expert* <http://www.moneysavingexpert.com> Does what it says on the tin. *Say No to 0870* <http://saynoto0870.com> Direct-dial numbers, not expensive national-rate ones. *Consumer Direct* <http://consumerdirect.gov.uk> Government site for consumers. *Music* *Last.fm* <http://www.last.fm> British-made, now CBS-owned, music recommendation station. *Amazon* <http://www.amazon.co.uk> Now has its own MP3 store in the UK as well as the US. *Hype Machine* <http://hypem.com> Picks up the latest news by tracking the music blogs. *Pitchfork* <http://pitchfork.com> The magazine of the music web, now with video, and lots of great lists. *Offbeat* *The Onion* <http://www.theonion.com> Still the satirical newspaper of record. If it's not in the Onion, it's probably happened. *B3TA* <http://b3ta.com> Beyond classification; its forum has spawned many memes ... and more than its fair share of trolls. *Lolcats* <http://icanhascheezburger.com> respite from stress with daft cCaptioned cats and other animals. *News Lite* <http://newslite.tv> respite from stress with daft cGreat source of news that's much too trivial to print. *Oddee* <http://oddee.com> Setting an internet standard for sets of curious and mildly amusing pictures, not cats. *PostSecret* <http://postsecret.blogspot.com> Notes of secrets sent by people who want them posted. So they are. *Passive-Aggressive Notes* <http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com> Would it be too much trouble for you to have a look? *Photography* *Flickr* <http://www.flickr.com> The granddaddy of photo-sharing sites. *Picnik* <http://www.picnik.com> Photo editing in your browser. *Picasa* <http://picasa.com> Google's photo organisation and editing tool. *DPreview* <http://dpreview.com> The web's best guide to cameras. Now Amazon owned. *Reference* *CIA Factbook* <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html> All the data you need on pretty much anywhere. *Wikipedia* <http://en.wikipedia.org> en.wikipedia.com the gradually growing user-edited encyclopaedia is Still a first port of call on most topics. *Internet Archive/Wayback Machine* <http://www.archive.org> The web in aspic. Useful for research into how the web used to look. *Metacritic* <http://www.metacritic.com> Aggregates reviews of movies and DVDs, TV programmes, music and games *Wikileaks* <http://wikileaks.org> Anonymous source of a huge range ofleaked documents. If you dig, there's something important there *Search* /Google dominates but Bing is challenging, and Yahoo and Microsoft are left in the dust./ *Google* <http://www.google.com> So good it's become almost synonymous with search. *Bing* <http://www.bing.com> Microsoft would like you to bing it, but its "decision engine" still has a long way to go. *Wolfram Alpha* <http://www.wolframalpha.com> An "answer engine"that delivers when it has the data, but not that easy to use. *Social software* /Two years ago it was nascent; now it's embedded in our culture. Chances are high you're a member of at least one, and perhaps all, of these sites./ *Facebook* <http://www.facebook.com> Still changing and growing to become not just your home on the web, but your ID provider. *LinkedIn* <http://www.linkedin.com> Contact sports for business users. *Ning* <http://www.ning.com> One place to start your own social network -- just as Madonna did -- though it has yet to really take off. *Travel* *Expedia* <http://www.expedia.co.uk>* *Still the daddy when it comes to travel sites, and particularly good if you can bundle a flight with a hotel and other services. *TripAdvisor* <http://www.tripadvisor.com>* *Essential reading for the user reviews of hotels, but it now covers much more. *Laterooms* <http://www.laterooms.com>* *Specialises in hotel discounts. *Twitter, and associated* /Twitter has proved itself over and over this year, from the Chinese earthquke to the Mumbai attacks to the Madoff fraud as a vector for news./ *Twitter* <http://www.twitter.com> The ur-site, where you can create an identity (or several). *Twitter Tim.es* <http://www.twittertim.es> Creates your personal newspaper based on your friend's tweets. *Twitterfeed* <http://twitterfeed.com> Posts blog contents to Twitter. *TwitterCounter* <http://twittercounter.com> Graphs the growth in your followers. *Twitterfall* <http://twitterfall.com> Tracks trending topics; enables custom searches. *Listorious* <http://listorious.com> Twitter lists make it simple to follow large groups of Twitter users, and Listorious makes it easy to find the best lists. *Video* *YouTube* <http://www.youtube.com> Dominant provider of video content online. *Vimeo* <http://vimeo.com> Better rights control than YouTube and a cleaner interface *BBC iPlayer* <http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer> The king of the online catchup services. *Hulu* <http://www.hulu.com> The networks fight back with their own video site, which may make the UK in 2010. We hope. *Videojug* <http://www.videojug.com> The motherlode of instructional videos, all in one place. *Virtual worlds <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/virtualworlds>* *Second Life* <http://secondlife.com> Continues to exist and is, apparently, still popular, but not the media darling it was. *Entropia Universe* <http://www.entropiauniverse.com> Set in a distant future on the untamed planet of Calypso. *Club Penguin* <http://clubpenguin.com> Minigame-tastic virtual world for youngkids. *Moshi Monsters* <http://www.moshimonsters.com> "Educational" virtual world for kids. *Visual arts* *Saatchi Gallery* <http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk> Gallery, listings and artworks for sale. *Art Daily* <http://artdaily.org> The first "art newspaper" on the net. *Culture 24* <http://www.culture24.org.uk> Everything about UK galleries and museums. *Visualisation* *Information is Beautiful* <http://www.informationisbeautiful.net> Creating effective infographics is one of today's key skills, and on this site, it's also an art. *Infosthetics.com* <http://infosthetics.com> An archive of some of the finest examples of "information aesthetics". *DabbleDB* <http://dabbledb.com> Create online databases and analyse them. / /Sayılar Mustafa Akgul _______________________________________________ Linux-sohbet mailing list [email protected] https://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet Liste kurallari: http://liste.linux.org.tr/kurallar.php
