The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 - 3

The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 - Classics: Fun

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AllRecipes.com
The key to this site, if you didn't gather it from the name, is recipes, of course. There are lots and lots of recipes for every kind of food under the sun, provided by cooks all over the planet.

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Boing Boing
Boing Boing may no longer bill itself as "a directory of wonderful things," but it can't fool us. Mark, Xeni, Cory, David, and their frequent guests amaze us on an hourly basis with their pop cultural findings.

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CocktailDB
Go to this site and you'll be able to find just about any drink, standard or obscure, with a quick search of the Internet Cocktail Database. Look it up by drink or by ingredient.

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Epicurious
This cooking site has just about everything you need to become a kitchen wiz—well, everything except for the talent. Epicurious offers an extensive collection of recipes culled from editors, readers, and fellow Conde Nast cooking sites—Bon Appétit and Gourmet. There are also a ton of articles, guides, menus, and an active community to help you along your culinary journey.

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Funny or Die
Will Ferrell and his frequent collaborator Adam McKay know from funny. In 2007, they launched this comedy video Web site, with help from a video starring Ferrell and McKay's two-year-old daughter Pearl as his dictatorial landlord. Since then, Funny or Die has gone on to become one of the most frequented humor sites on the Web, thanks to a strong current of high-profile content and a rating system that lets users declare videos funny or dead.

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Hulu
Is Hulu the future of TV? Considering how many TV networks back this site with the latest broadcast TV, available only hours after a show airs, perhaps it is. The addition of the $10-a-month Hulu Plus plan also provides you with access to older episodes, classic shows, and some movies, as well.
Check out PCMag.com's Hulu review.

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Instructables
Co-founded by Squid Labs Saul Griffith, Instructables is one of the Web's best resources for do-it-yourself projects. From PCs to jewelry to solar panels, this site has instructions for practically anything you can dream up—say goodbye to your spare time.

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The Onion
How thoroughly has "America's Finest News Source" permeated the pop cultural zeitgeist? "No, it's not from The Onion" has become a pre-cursor to any funny or otherwise bizarre news story mentioned on a blog or uttered on the nightly news. This fake newspaper has defined cutting-edge comedy for more than two decades.

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Pandora
A lot of personalized Internet radio stations have sprung up in Pandora's wake, but sometimes the original—and the simplest—is the best. Pandora lets users create free custom stations based on their favorite bands or songs with help of the Music Genome Project. And thanks to mobile apps for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and webOS, you can take that customization with you.
Check out PCMag.com's Pandora review.

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Ustream
We use Ustream to stream our podcast, PCMag Radio. It's a simple—and free—way to broadcast live video content on the Web. The Ustream site is also a great place to discover live and archived streams by everyone from basement podcasters to high-profile partners, including Forbes, PBS, TMZ, and, of course, PCMag.

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YouTube
If you don't receive a minimum of eight links a day from YouTube, you're probably doing something wrong. This Google-owned video site is the go-to resource for everything from archived C-SPAN footage to silly cat videos (emphasis on the latter, naturally). And with initiatives like Rentals and Leanback, YouTube is doing everything it can to invade your living room. But do yourself a favor and avoid the comments at all costs.

The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 - 1

The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010

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Here are our picks for the hottest Web sites and Web trends of the year, plus some old favorites to enjoy.

Watching our annual list of Top 100 Web Sites evolve over the years has been a fairly fascinating process. In a way, the Top 100—particularly the Undiscovered portion—can be viewed as a microcosm of the Web at large. The sites that tend to make the list are indicative of larger trends that have dominated the Web for the previous 12 months.

One of the biggest trends of the past few years has been the rise of the mobile app. Thanks to devices like the iPhone and iPad, many users are doing a large portion of their Web browsing on something other than their PC. For that reason, the trend toward Web-based app development has waned. Instead of building cloud-based apps for browsers, many developers have moved toward mobile app development.

Those sites that do still target PC users must offer their content in a mobile form to compete. While there are no mobile-only sites here, a good chunk of those on the list are also available as mobile apps or in some other phone-friendly version.

As the landscape becomes ever more crowded, the need for site aggregation and content filters becomes ever more apparent. Perhaps, somewhat ironically, we found ourselves in the position of weeding through dozens of sites that promise to filter the increasing noise. Some of the better news, search, and travel aggregating/filtering sites made it through.

Speaking of filtering, we've got a few strict guidelines that we use as we pour through hundreds of suggestions from readers, staff, and friends. As mentioned above, none of the sites in the Top 100 are mobile only. The sites also can't be download-based—that means no browser plug-ins and no desktop apps. The sites also have to be free—they can have a premium counterpart, sure, but the free version has to be worth recommending on its own merits.

The distinction between Classics and Undiscovered is a bit trickier. The one hard and fast rule is that if the site has been on the Top 100 before, it's out of contention for the Undiscovered list. The other guidelines are a combination of time, traffic, and exposure. Just because a site is on the Undiscovered list doesn't mean that no one has ever used it—we just assume that the majority of our readers will be unfamiliar. It's a way of distinguishing the list from other Top 100s, which are often populated only by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo products.

Many of those products do end up on the Classics list—but again, for the sake of variety and discovery, we try to limit them even there. It would be easy to put, say, 25 Google sites on the lists, but that's not really helpful, is it?

So read, explore, enjoy, and discuss. And while you're at it, start recommending sites in our comments area for 2011. It's never too early to start the hunt.

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CafeMom - 50 Best Websites

CafeMom - 50 Best Websites

Family & Kids

According to CafeMom, the "Cafe" in its name stands for conversation, advice, friendship and entertainment. That may be a backronym, but it's also a good summary of the site's appeal. Most of what goes on here focuses on the conversation, advice and friendship part: moms helping moms using features such as a Q&A service and thousands of discussion groups on everything from money and finances to religion and spirituality. There's also a splash of entertainment, in the form of a celebrity gossip blog called The Stir, and some casual games.

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