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The 50 Best Business Blogs

Internet blogs are taking on big corporations and winning. As the bloggerati continue to set the agenda London’s Times Online provides a list of the 50 top blogs in the following categories: Economics, Banking & Finance, Construction & Property, Engineering, Health, Industrials, Leisure, Media & Marketing, Natural Resources, Retail, Law, Transport, Technology, Telecoms, and Utilities. View the full list…

Add comment July 8th, 2007

List of Online Magazine Initiatives

Magazine Publishers of America is the industry association for consumer magazines. The MPA represents more than 240 domestic publishing companies with approximately 1,400 titles, from 80 international companies. They maintain a continually updated list of magazine website digital initiatives - everything from new site features, to partnerships, and redesigns, documented for the past two years. Check out the list…

Add comment February 21st, 2007

Fortune 500 Business Blogs

Two sites are collecting links to Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs (active public blogs by company employees about the company and its products).

• Ross Mayfield of Socialtext.net in collaboration with Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine / TheLongTail.com
  
• And BlogBusinessSummitt.com

Add comment February 11th, 2007

Internet Retailer’s Top 50 Retail Sites 2007

Online video, live webcasts, social networking, customer reviews–these are the kinds of things that make this year’s Top 50 online etailers shine. Last year the best e-retailers were fine-tuning and adding some features. This year they’re bounding forward in ways that show how some retailers are more imaginative and more focused on bringing customers back for more…

View the winning sites within the following categories:

• Apparel & Accessories
• Books / CDs / DVDs
• Computers / Electronics
• Flowers / Gifts / Jewelry
• Food / Drug
• Housewares / Home Furnishings
• Mass Merchants / Department Stores
• Specialty / Non-Apparel

Add comment February 8th, 2007

Top 10 Best Internet Acquisitions of All Time

From HipMojo.com, the ten “best” Internet acquisitions of all time. Read the full article…

1. News Corporation acquires MySpace-parent Intermix for $580M in May 2005
2. New York Times acquires About.com for $410M in February, 2005
3. Google acquires Sprinks in October 2003
4. Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63B in July, 2003
5. Yahoo! acquires Inktomi for $235M in December, 2002
6. AOL Time Warner acquires Advertising.com for $435M in June 2004
7. eBay acquires Paypal for $1.5B in 2002
8. Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Holdings for $343M in March 2004
9. Microsoft acquires Hotmail for $400M in 1998
10. aQuantive acquires Razorfish for $160M in June 2004

Add comment February 6th, 2007

Squidoo’s Top 100

Squidoo is a website designed to make it easy for anyone to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. Their goal is to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses –single pages that highlights one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. A lensmaster uses the tools available online to provide links, feeds, abstracts, and lists to users who are trying to make sense of a topic. For example, a single lens could point to Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links. Check out Squidoo’s list of top 100 recommendations…

Add comment February 4th, 2007

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 Widgetbox directory…

Add comment January 17th, 2007

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, UK
8. Voice of America
9. Christian Science Monitor
10. International Herald Tribune
11. Bloomberg
12. CNN

Add comment January 15th, 2007

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 DailyKos.com.

Add comment January 15th, 2007

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 Spreadsheets
• Kayak
• Last.fm
• LibraryThing
• Local.Live.com
• MetaCafe
• MySpace
• NetVibes
• Newsvine
• Odeo
• Revver
• Skype
• Spurl
• Squidoo
• WordPress
• Yahoo
• Yelp
• YouTube

Add comment January 14th, 2007

10 Great B2B Web Sites 2006

Each year, BtoBOnline.com provides a behind-the-scenes look at 10 b-to-b Web sites that excel at communicating with customers and prospects. These sites offer in-depth information about products, services and the company. They are easy to navigate, enabling users to find what they want quickly and efficiently. Their design is clean and embodies the corporate brand. Finally, they allow users to accomplish business-oriented tasks, whether it’s managing a project or making a purchase.

Accenture
Bank of America
Boston Scientific
CA.com
DHL.com
Gates.com
Grainger.com
Steelcase.com
Sun.com
USG.com

Add comment September 27th, 2006

Adweek’s Website Hot List 2006

To determine this year’s Hot List list, Adweek evaluated sites that create content, as opposed to aggregating it. The top ten list includes four sites that rely, for the most part or in whole, on user-generated content, the biggest online trend advertisers currently face. Adweek reviewed data on approximately 400 sites from Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance. They looked for growth over the past six months in unique users or time spent per person, and also invited several interactive media directors and clients to weigh in, giving their thoughts on which sites they believe are doing it right. The final list mirrors what is happening on the Web: community sites mix with traditional media properties. Some of the oldest sites stand side-by-side with the newest. Download Adweek’s Web Site Hot List PDF…

1. YouTube
2. MySpace
3. The Weather Channel
4. TMZ.com
5. BusinessWeek.com
6. Heavy.com
7. MLB.com
8. Cartoon Network
9. ESPN.com
10. Facebook

Add comment September 19th, 2006

Lucky’s Favorite Shopping Websites

Interested in dressing better and shopping smarter? Lucky magazine has created a directory of their 200 favorite sites for online shopping, from A to Z…

Add comment September 3rd, 2006

Great List of Home Decorating Sites

Domino magazine has collected their favorite websites for stylish living and created an online “black book” of the best places to shop for home decorating, entertaining, gardening, renovating ideas, and gifts worth giving. Check out the list…

Add comment September 1st, 2006

AskMen.com’s Cool Site of the Day

Popular men’s lifestyle portal AskMen.com features their pick for the coolest site on the web each day…

Add comment August 29th, 2006

TIME’s 50 Coolest Websites 2006

From arts to shopping, from time wasters to time savers, TIME picks its annual list of the 50 coolest sites…

Add comment August 14th, 2006

New-Media Power List

As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Check out the list of new media moguls from WSJ.com. Categories include podcasts, amateur video, social networking, music, blogging, photography, TV and film…

Or click here for the full article (subscription may be required).

Add comment July 30th, 2006

MSN.com’s Hot List

The hottest content on MSN.com: Most popular headlines, top videos, sports, greeting cards, tech, people searches, money makers, most downloaded songs, and top movies…

Add comment July 16th, 2006

Yahoo! Editors Favorite Websites

Each day Yahoo! Picks editors looks for sites that are different, compelling, educational, and, most of all, entertaining. Over the course of the year, their team of editors has plucked hundreds of sites from the Web’s offerings, and the most exceptional deserve a second look. From obscure TV miniseries to the principles of Einstein’s theories, from flea market photos to animated guitar gurus, this group reflects the best of Picks of the Year sites from 2005…

You can also view the list of websites Yahoo! picked recently, as well as the entire Picks Directory of sites through this link…

Add comment July 9th, 2006

Entertainment Weekly’s Recommended Websites

EW.com’s Web Guide lists their favorite sites in several different genres:

• Books
• DVD & Video
• Entertainment
• Movies
• Music
• Pop Culture
• Television

Add comment June 20th, 2006

The Top 100 Digital Content Industry Companies

The EContent 100 list offers a look at top companies in the digital content industry that show how far econtent reaches into our work and our lives and how the tools to make the most of it matter more than ever. This year witnessed a number of promising newcomers joining the fray as well as significant signs of maturity in leveraging XML, RSS, Open Source, and mobility, to name but a few. Blogs are growing up out of their origins as digital diaries to serve as full-fledged media outlets, whether written by “everyman”, media professionals, or CEOs. Wikis made inroads into the enterprise as well.

Add comment May 15th, 2006

The Next Internet 25

A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. The Next Net creates endless possibilities for entrepreneurs and established players alike to take advantage of the Web’s new power. They are building on the success of early standard-bearers — Flickr, MySpace, Wikipedia — but also moving beyond those pioneers in creative and fascinating ways. View the 25 companies in five categories Business 2.0 chose, whose approaches help illuminate where the Web is headed and where the opportunities lie…

Add comment May 15th, 2006

2006 Webby Award Winners

The winners of the 10th Annual Webby Awards were revealed today in 69 business, consumer and culture categories - from favorites like Community, Fashion, Film and Politics to new categories making their debut this year such as Podcasts, Best Visual Design, Business Blog and Best Use of Video or Moving Image. The 10th Annual Webby Awards received a record 5,500 entries from over 40 countries around the world.

Add comment May 9th, 2006

Top 500 Websites Tracked by Alexa.com

The traffic rank is based on 3 months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users. Note: 1) The Alexa Toolbar works only with the Internet Explorer browser. Sites frequented mainly by users of other browsers will be undercounted. 2) The Alexa Toolbar works only on Windows operating systems. Traffic to any sites which are disproportionately visited by users of other operating systems will be undercounted.

Add comment April 8th, 2006

ClickZ Internet Trends & Statistics

A Web marketer’s guide to Internet statistics, Internet marketing demographics, Internet advertising research, e-commerce marketing trends, Web traffic patterns, seasonal sales data and more.

Add comment March 12th, 2006