The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 - Undiscovered: Apps
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CeeVee
No one enjoys job hunting. From creating résumés to going on interviews, the entire process is a giant headache. CeeVee can help with the former. The site describes itself as "quick and painless résumé management," which is, in fact, fairly apparent. CeeVee offer a customizable easy-to-use résumé template. Once you're finished, the site will host it for perspective employers. You can also save it as a downloadable PDF or share it via Twitter and Facebook.
Flockdraw
Don't let the "collaborative whiteboard" description intimidate you-FlockDraw is no Google Wave. It's a big blank canvas that you and your friends can draw on together in real-time, with different brushes, colors, and tools. We spent most of our session trying to out gross each other with pictures, but I'm sure there are some practical applications for FlockDraw, too.
fur.ly
You don't see a lot of cool new things happening in the world of URL shortners these days-they can't get much shorter-but fur.ly is unique. It lets you put mutliple URLs into one fur.ly address and when it loads, it puts a tool bar on the page to easily skip from one to the other.
Roc
Got the skills to make beautiful music but lack the tools? Aviary, already home of some excellent online apps, wants to help with the new Roc music creator. It simulates lots of instruments and lets you create loops of melody that could be the beginning of some beautiful, customized music.
The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 - Classics: Tech
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Ars Technica
When it comes to tech news, Ars Technica doesn't mess around. The site offers some of the most consistently hard-hitting and informative coverage on the industry. The site may be a bit too "inside baseball" for more casual readers, but anyone with a genuine interest in the world of technology ought to add Ars to their RSS feed.
Filehippo.com
There are a lot of great places where you can download freeware and shareware, but few focus like a laser on the good, useful stuff you need as well as FileHippo.com. Install its update checker to find out if your current software has a new version you missed.
gdgt
Launched by former Engadget bigwigs Peter Rojas and Ryan Block, gdgt isn't just your standard tech news blog. It's a social network built around fellow techies. Read reviews and support for all of the latest gadgets from people like you—just be wary of the flame wars. This is the Internet, after all.
Lifehacker
Optimizing software is Lifehacker's bread and butter, but as its title implies, the site's usefulness extends well beyond that. Hack your work space, hack your home, hack your lunch, hack your mind—hack your life with this Gawker blog.
MakeUseOf.com
Every day, an international group of tech heads go out of their way to tell you about all the great things you can do online and with a PC. This site features every techie thing from the obvious to the obscure, with collections of sites, tools, and more, that you can, uh, make use of.
Techmeme
Where do tech journalists go to read tech journalism? Techmeme doesn't offer any original content, but it offers a well curated aggregation of some of the best industry coverage the Web has to offer.
The Top 100 Web Sites of 2010 - Classics: Social
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Facebook
Imagine putting together a list of top Web sites and not including one that has 500 million members. We can't either. That's why this über-social network, which is so big there's going to be a major motion picture about its founding, is listed here. Addicting and controversial Facebook, for some, is synonymous with the word "Internet."
Check out PCMag.com's Facebook review.
Kiva
Got a spare $25 bucks? Use it to buy someone a goat or some yarn. It might not seem like much, but Kiva facilitates micro-loans to those in places where such purchases are extravagant. Your money can ensure these struggling entrepreneurs survive and even thrive.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging platform for the Twitter generation. Follow other tumblelogs, re-blog posts, "like" your favorites—if you can manage a Facebook account, you can navigate this ultra-simple platform. Tumblr is also great for multimedia posts—photos, audio, video, chats, whatever.
Twitter
It's not always easy expressing yourself in 140 characters or less, but brevity is really half the fun of Twitter, right? #yep