The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 - Classics: Info
Craigslist
Craig Newmark's site may not be the flashiest the Web has to offer, but with a decade and a half of experience, you won't find a better resource for classifieds. Craigslist has it all—jobs, apartments, garage sales, dates, etc.—in more than 500 locations in 50 countries. And while you're there, be sure to check out the Best of Craigslist page for some of the funniest, strangest, and most entertaining listings the site has to offer.
Howcast
There's no lack of help and how-to sites on the Interwebs, but Howcast does it better by only featuring how-to videos. While there are some from individuals, most of the featured videos have high production values and good advice.
iFixIt
If Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers had a kid that only told you how to fix electronics, it would be iFixit. The site even sells you parts and equipment to make repairs to computers, phones, game consoles, and more.
IMDB
What was the name of that one actor who played the German guy in The Big Lebowski? No, I'm not talking about the one from The Red Hot Chili Peppers—the other one. You know, the guy from Fargo. No, not Steve Buscemi—the other one. Peter Stormare? Yeah, that's his name. Oh look, apparently, he was on an episode of Seinfeld. Man, what did we do before IMDB?
Indeed
You don't need to look for a job. Indeed will look for you, searching listing all around the Web and beyond. It posts as many as a million jobs a week, but you can narrow that down by location and keyword to get the new career opportunity you want.
Kayak
Kayak is the travel metasearch to end all travel metasearches, drawing flight, car, and hotel deals from company sites and fellow aggregators, such as Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, and Travelocity. If there's a travel deal to be had, you'll find it here.
Metacritic
Why rely on the opinions of one critic, when you can get all of them at the same time. Like Rotten Tomatoes before it, Metacritic aggregates reviews from some of the most respected outlets in the game, while doing that site a few better by including TV, music, and gaming reviews on top of its movie offerings.
Snopes
For the love of Sasquatch, if you forward on that e-mail about kidney stealing, the new über-virus, phone scams, or anything else that seems scary-but-true before checking with Snopes to see if it's just a quickly propagating urban legend, we'll feed you Coke and Pop Rocks.
TED.com
Since 1984, TED has been bringing together some of the brightest minds in technology, entertainment, and design (T.E.D., get it?) to "give the talk of their lives." Two conferences occur annually—TED in California and TEDGlobal in Oxford. TED.com is a repository for some of the most intriguing and thought-provoking speeches from some of the smartest people around.
Wikipedia
We don't recommend that you cite this free encyclopedia in your research paper (that is, unless you're doing a piece on crowd sourcing), but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more complete compendium of information, with 16 million articles—3.3 million of which are in English (yes, we got that information from Wikipedia). And, as a number of recent studies have found, the site is surprisingly accurate—still, those footnotes are there for a reason.
