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10 Best-Designed Intranets for 2010

Gr8List — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:52:07 +0000

The best designed intranets represent big companies (median size: 6,350 employees) with large amounts of documents and mission-critical applications such as sales force support. But most of the lessons from these winning designs apply to smaller companies as well. The list was selected by Jakob Nielsen, a leading web usability consultant. Read the report summary…

Enbridge, Inc., a leader in energy transportation and distribution in North America (Canada)
GE, a diversified technology, media, and financial services company (US)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit medical research organization (US)
Huron Consulting Group, a consulting company (US)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a NASA Center that manages robotic spacecraft exploration of Earth, the solar system, and the universe (US)
The MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization managing four federally funded research and development centers (US)
SCANA Corp., a Fortune 500 energy-based holding company (US)
Trend Micro, Inc., a leader in Internet content security (Japan)
URS Corporation, a leading provider of engineering, construction, and technical services for public agencies and private sector companies (US)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Walmart), a retailer with more than 8,000 retail units under 53 different banners in 15 countries (US)

TIME’s 25 Best Blogs 2009

Gr8List — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:36:14 +0000

TIME’s second annual list of the best blogs in the world, spanning politics, housekeeping, astronomy and everything in between. See the full list…

TIME’s 50 Best Websites 2009

Gr8List — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:16:48 +0000

TIME picks its annual list of best Websites. Fifty offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web. View the list on Time.com…

1. Flickr
2. California Coastline
3. Delicious
4. Metafilter
5. popurls
6. Twitter
7. Skype
8. Boing Boing
9. Academic Earth
10. OpenTable
11. Google
12. YouTube
13. Wolfram|Alpha
14. Hulu
15. Vimeo
16. Fora TV
17. Craiglook
18. Shop Goodwill
19. Amazon
20. Kayak
21. Netflix
22. Etsy
23. PropertyShark.com
24. Redfin
25. Wikipedia
26. Internet Archive
27. Kiva
28. ConsumerSearch
29. Metacritic
30. Pollster
31. Facebook
32. Pandora and Last.fm
33. Musicovery
34. Spotify
35. Supercook
36. Yelp
37. Visuwords
38. CouchSurfing
39. BabyNameWizard.com’s NameVoyager
40. Mint
41. TripIt
42. Aardvark
43. drop.io
44. Issuu
45. Photosynth
46. OMGPOP
47. WorldWideTelescope
48. Fonolo
49. Get High Now
50. Know Your Meme

101 Best Websites for Writers

Gr8List — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:43:34 +0000

Writer’s Digest 11th annual list of Websites for writers offers a one-stop resource. They sifted through more than 2,700 nominations and pulled the best of the bunch. Read the full story…

The 2009 Categories:
* Agent Blogs
* Writing Communities
* Publishing Resources
* Jobs and Markets
* Creativity and Challenges
* Genres/Niches
* General Resources
* Fun for Writers

The 50 Best Business Blogs

Gr8List — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:18:26 +0000

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…

List of Online Magazine Initiatives

Gr8List — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:42:09 +0000

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…

Fortune 500 Business Blogs

Gr8List — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:46:50 +0000

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).

Internet Retailer’s Top 50 Retail Sites 2007

Gr8List — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:09:17 +0000

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:

Top 10 Best Internet Acquisitions of All Time

Gr8List — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:11:38 +0000

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

Squidoo’s Top 100

Gr8List — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:31:35 +0000

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…

The Most Popular Web Content Widgets

Gr8List — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:11:40 +0000

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…

The Top News Sites of 2006

Gr8List — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:44:34 +0000

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

The 2006 Weblog Award Winners

Gr8List — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:51:37 +0000

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.

Top Web 2.0 Winners

Gr8List — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:26:00 +0000

Following is a list of Web 2.0 winners, according to Wired, Wired’s Monkey Bites blog, and Wisdump.com.

10 Great B2B Web Sites 2006

Gr8List — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:44:33 +0000

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

Adweek’s Website Hot List 2006

Gr8List — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:14:47 +0000

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

Lucky’s Favorite Shopping Websites

Gr8List — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:00:51 +0000

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…

Great List of Home Decorating Sites

Gr8List — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:36:09 +0000

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…

AskMen.com’s Cool Site of the Day

Gr8List — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:35:06 +0000

New-Media Power List

Gr8List — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:09:41 +0000

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).

MSN.com’s Hot List

Gr8List — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:01:01 +0000

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…

Yahoo! Editors Favorite Websites

Gr8List — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:46:45 +0000

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…

Entertainment Weekly’s Recommended Websites

Gr8List — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:58:22 +0000

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

The Top 100 Digital Content Industry Companies

Gr8List — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:55:49 +0000

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.

The Next Internet 25

Gr8List — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:31:51 +0000

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…

2006 Webby Award Winners

Gr8List — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:41:16 +0000

The winner s of the 10th Annual Webby Awards were revealed today in 69 business, co nsume r and culture ca tegories – 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.

Top 500 Websites Tracked by Alexa.com

Gr8List — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:31:34 +0000

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.

ClickZ Internet Trends & Statistics

Gr8List — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:45:41 +0000

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.

Best Online Publishers

Gr8List — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:12:26 +0000

MediaPost’s trade magazine OMMA choose the online publishers, portals, and sites they believe exemplify excellence in their respective categories. These destinations offer readers rich and diverse content on a consistent basis. OMMA nominated five online destinations in 10 categories, featuring a single site in each segment that represents the best of the pack.

MarketingSherpa’s 10 Best Blogs for 2005

Gr8List — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:15:53 +0000

The Best 10 Blogs of 2005 on the topics of marketing, advertising, and public relations. In April 2005, MarketingSherpa asked their 173,000 readers (mainly marketing execs at medium-large businesses and the agencies who serve them) to nominate their favorite blogs on the subjects of marketing, advertising, and PR.

PC Magazine’s Top 101 Websites

Gr8List — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:43:21 +0000

101 sites to engage, entertain and inform. PC Magazine revisits this topic twice a year, in the fall with an online-only version and in the spring with a print cover story that also has an online update.

Feedster Top 500 Blogs

Gr8List — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:08:12 +0000

Each month Feedster publishes a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. See what people are reading, find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you on a regular basis, and discover new voices in the Blogosphere.

Top 50 Online Retailing Websites for 2006

Gr8List — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:17:13 +0000

Internet Retailer magazine’s list of Top 50 online retailing websites range in size from Amazon.com, which continues to execute a brilliant online strategy while growing rapidly, to such smaller sites as Musicnotes.com, which uses in-house developed software to create a unique and exciting way to shop for sheet music, and TheFruitCompany.com, a third-generation, family-owned orchard in Oregon that uses the web to create a national market for its high-quality fruits.

These sites reflect the best of what retailers can do online,” says Kurt T. Peters, editor of Internet Retailer. “Retailers in our Top 50 aren’t necessarily the biggest, the most profitable or the best known—they are the sites that innovate to take online retailing to the next level.”

10 Great B2B Web Sites 2005

Gr8List — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:06:21 +0000

BtoB’s annual behind-the-scenes look at some of the best business Web sites out there. Today’s great B2B Web sites present detailed product and company information in an easy-to-navigate format. They have an uncluttered design that embodies the corporate brand, ditching the bells and whistles unless the bells and whistles improve the customer experience. They engage users in a two-way conversation rather than a one-sided sales pitch. In short, they make customers’ lives easier…

CNET News.com Top 100 Blogs

Gr8List — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:35:46 +0000

With more than 14 million blogs in existence and another 80,000 being created each day, how is a person supposed to find the ones worth reading? That is the question CNET News.com is attempted to answer with their first Blog 100 list.