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"What's New and Exciting About the Web Right Now?" Asks Time Magazine
Time selects the top 50 web sites of 2007, from Photonhead.com to Cellswapper and FunnyorDie.com to Lastfm

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Jan. 2, 2008 01:30 PM
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Time magazine has chosen what it considers to be the top 50 web sites of 2007 - sites that show, "...exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience."

In the Social Networks category, the top sites included among others StumbleUpon, Hitchsters (a carpooling site), and LinkedIn.

Among the News & Information sites that made the Top Fifty were INGDirect.com (a banking site), OpenSecrets.org (a campaign finance analysis site), and NowPublic.com, a "citizen journalism" site.

The Web Services category included among others: Mozy.com (online file backup service); Tumblr.com (blogging service), and Twitter (microblogging).

 Time also had an Arts & Leisure category, in which sites which made the Top Fifty list included among others: Wotartist.com (art gallery), PhotonHead.com (digital photography), and CellSwapper.com (wireless carrier contract swapping site).

The final category, Audio & Video, included among others: FunnyOrDie.com (a YouTube alternative), Last.fm (custom radio), and Lala.com (a digital music store).

 

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

queZZtion wrote: Why on earth is that cellswapper site not in the web service category? It's a textbook example, no?
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