Archive for January, 2007
The World’s Best TV Commericals of 2006
AdForum is a leading online resource for information on advertising agencies and advertising creative work from around the world. Their database contains a large collection of the world's best TV, print, internet, outdoor and radio ads. View video of the top TV commercials of 2006, including clips from Canada, Japan, United States, Australia, [...]
10 Hot Jobs for 2007
Fast Company spoke with trend experts to compile a list of the top 10 professions that will be in high demand in 2007... 1. Art Directors 2. Buyers and Purchasing Agents 3. Experience Retail Designers 4. Medical Researchers 5. News Analysts, Reporters, and Bloggers 6. Security Systems Engineers 7. Talent Agents 8. Urban Planners 9. [...]
The Most Popular Web Content Widgets
A web widget is a small piece of interactive content (like a scorebox, music player, or game) that can be dynamically embedded into a web page. Widgets allow for a new level of expression and creativity as web publishers use them to create value and interest in their blogs, social networks, and web sites. Here are the most popular web widgets in [...]
The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006
Fiction: Absurdistan. By Gary Shteyngart The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel. By Amy Hempel The Emperor's Children. By Claire Messud The Lay Of The Land. By Richard Ford Special Topics In Calamity Physics. By Marisha Pessl Nonfiction: Falling Through The Earth. By Danielle Trussoni The Looming Tower. By Lawrence [...]
All of VH1’s “The Greatest” Lists
VH1's Greatest series presents rankings of the best songs, artists, albums, and everything else in rock 'n' roll. Each countdown is revealed by a celebrity host, and through new interviews and classic footage, you'll also learn the reasons behind the experts' choices. View all "The Greatest" countdown lists...
The Top News Sites of 2006
Newsknife.com rates news sites based on relevance analysis within the main Google News site. These ratings are based on a sample of 438,330 individual listings at Google News by 4504 sites for 1768 news items during 2006... 1. ABC News 2. New York Times 3. Reuters 4. Washington Post 5. Times Online, UK 6. Forbes 7. Guardian Unlimited, [...]
AskMen.com’s Top 49 Men
The Top 49 Men of 2006 is the product of more than one million votes cast by AskMen.com readers. View the full rankings, and profiles of each man who made the list... 1. George Clooney 2. Jay-Z 3. Richard Branson 4. Lance Armstrong 5. Tom Ford 6. Jerry Bruckheimer 7. Johnny Depp 8. David Beckham 9. Jorge Perez 10. Bill Clinton
Brightcove’s Top 100 Buzz Videos
Brightcove is an Internet TV service used by content owners, consumers, web publishers, and advertisers. Watch their most popular 100 videos...
Rolling Stone’s 50 Greatest Artists of All Time
The Immortals began with the creation of a panel of fifty-five top musicians, historians, industry executives and critics, selected by the editors of Rolling Stone. Voters were asked to pick, in order of preference, the twenty artists they deemed to be the most significant and influential of rock's first fifty years, those whose work continues to [...]
Top 100 Digital Content Industry Companies 2006
EContent presents the 100 companies that lead the digital content industry today. Judging categories include: 1. Content Commerce, 2. Content Security, 3. Blogging, 4. Classification & Taxonomy, 5. Collaboration, 6. Content Creation, Production, & Digital Publishing, 7. Content Delivery, 8. Content Management, 9. Fee-Based Info Services, 10. [...]
New York Magazine’s Best Books of 2006
1.The Road, By Cormac McCarthy 2. The Looming Tower, By Lawrence Wright 3. The View from Castle Rock, By Alice Munro 4. State of Denial, By Bob Woodward 5. Suite Francaise, By Irene Nemirovsky 6. At Canaan's Edge, By Taylor Branch 7. Fun Home, By Alison Bechdel 8. The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny, By Ivar Ekeland 9. [...]
100 Best Companies to Work For 2007
Google is ranked No. 1 in Fortune’s 10th annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Genentech, a biotech company, is No. 2 on the list, followed by Wegmans Food Markets, which has been on the list all 10 years. Container Store and Whole Foods Market round out the top five. The 100 Best Companies to Work For list is compiled by Robert Levering [...]
The 2006 Weblog Award Winners
The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition, with over 525,000 votes cast in the 2006 edition for finalists in 45 categories. Nominations ended November 24, and voting was conducted between December 7 and December 15. Final results were announced Dec. 18, 2006. View the full list here... The top winner for 2006 was political blog [...]
The Most Popular Cameras Used on Flickr
Flickr's "Camera Finder" shows the number of members who have uploaded at least one photo with a particular camera on a given day over the last year. The graph lines moving up or down indicates a change in the camera's popularity relative to all other cameras used by Flickr members. The graphs are accurate to the extent that Flickr can [...]
The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All-Time
The 50 Greatest Cartoons was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of all-time as voted upon by 1,000 animation industry professionals. Details can be found on Wikipedia... CityRag found links to online videos for many of the cartoons. The top ten are listed below. See all 50 [...]
43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World
The 43 organizations that received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards for 2007 have found a better way to do good: They're using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems. The Social Capitalist Awards define strong performance as a combination of both social impact and organizational [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 10 Favorite Movies
From a special RED edition of London's newspaper, The Independent. Read the full article... 1.) Bicycle Thieves - 1948 2.) Taxi Driver - 1976 3.) Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 4.) 8 1/2 - 1963 5.) The Third Man - 1949 6.) Yojimbo - 1961 7.) Manhattan - 1979 8.) Sunset Boulevard - 1950 9.) The Shining - 1980 10.) East of Eden - 1955
Top Web 2.0 Winners
Following is a list of Web 2.0 winners, according to Wired, Wired's Monkey Bites blog, and Wisdump.com. Basecamp Blinklist Bloglines Browzar del.icio.us Digg Dimewise Facebook Flickr Friends4Days Friendster GMail Google Calendar Google [...]
Expedia.com’s Top Travel Destinations
Beach Trips Cinematic Getaways Cruises for Couples Daredevil Adventures Getaways for the Girls Great Golfing Resorts Ghostly Getaways High-Tech Travel Treats Hip Hotels Hotels with Pillow Menus Luxury Hotels Pet-Pampering Hotels Romantic Escapes Specialty Cruises Sublime Hotel Spas Swim-up Bars Top Spots for Family [...]
101 Classic Christmas Videos
FanPop.com has collected 101 classic holiday specials, and Christmas videos. View the top 5 in the "hall of fame" below, then check out the full list... 1. It's a Wonderful Life (click to watch) 2. A Charlie Brown Christmas (click to watch) 3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (click to watch) 4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (click to [...]
Business Schools with the Best Career Prospects
Students who pursue an MBA enjoy a major return on their investment. To determine the schools on this list, The Princeton Reivew looked at institutional data concerning job placement and average starting salary of students after graduation. According to The Princeton Review’s annual survey of 18,000 business school students at the nation’s [...]
The Most Influential Figures in American History
The Atlantic has published a list of the top 100 influential figures in American history. It was compiled by asking a panel of ten historians to each produce a list, and the lists were then merged. Check out the full list... 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. George Washington 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 5. Alexander Hamilton 6. [...]
The New York Times Top 100 Books of 2006
100 Notable Books of the Year from The New York Times Book Review. The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 4, 2005. View the top fiction, poetry and nonfiction books of 2006...
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