Link SharingLink Sharing sites focus on the distribution of content by allowing users to share new websites and web content with others. These sites are usually paired with a rating or up-voting system to allow users to focus on popular content, although they don't necessarily include such capabilities.
Link Sharing , Social Networks Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that people use to collect ideas for their different projects and interests. People create and share collections (called "boards") of visual bookmarks (called "Pins") that they use to do things like plan trips and projects, organize events or save articles and recipes. There is also a like feature to save certain pins that may not fit with a board. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. It is managed by Cold Brew Labs and fund...
FlitterWebhttp://www.flitterweb.comUser Review , Link Sharing FlitterWeb is a website designed to allow users to share and review their favorite websites, webcomics, webseries, and other content that can be found online. It is free to use and entirely user-driven, with the moderation team populated by the most active users on the site. Members can submit reviews for websites, add websites to the database, rate other users's reviews positively and negatively, connect with each other through private messages and more, and increase their Esteem values th...
StumbleUponhttp://www.stumbleupon.comLink Sharing , Entertainment StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles. Toolbar versions exist for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Safari. StumbleUpon also works with some independent Mozilla-based browsers. StumbleUpon was founded in November 2002[...
Circus Menuhttp://www.circusmenu.comLink Sharing , Video Streaming A fresh, daily rotation of links to videos, featurettes, and social posts from a variety of upcoming movies, drawn from all over the internet and brought together here by Bryan Circus on CircusMenu.com.
Upworthyhttp://www.upworthy.comLink Sharing , Politics Upworthy is a website for viral content started in March 2012 by Eli Pariser, the former executive director of MoveOn, and Peter Koechley, the former managing editor of The Onion. One of Facebook's co-founders, Chris Hughes, was an early investor. Upworthy's stated mission is to host the intersection of the "awesome", the "meaningful" and the "visual." It uses virality to promote stories with a liberal bent on social issues. They popularized a certain style of headline, particularly a style o...
Social Networks , Link Sharing Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League,...
Link Sharing , Social Networks reddit is an entertainment, social networking service and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links. Only registered users can then vote submissions "up" or "down" to organize the posts and determine their position on the site's pages. Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". The site is a collection of entries submitted by its registered users, essentially a bulletin board system. The name "Reddit" is...
Wimphttp://www.wimp.comVideo Streaming , Link Sharing Wimp.com is a family friendly video website. We are dissimilar to most video websites on the Internet as we avoid featuring videos that are either unsuitable for all ages, or are generally sensationalistic in nature. We are not a funny video website; rather, we feature all kinds of videos: funny, educational, inspirational, cute, science, news, pretty much anything we think that might add 'value' to your life in some shape or form. We are anti-sensationalistic; we feel that there are more tha...
Digghttp://www.digg.comLink Sharing , Entertainment Digg is a news aggregator with an editorially driven front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the Internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues. It was launched in its current form on July 31, 2012, with support for sharing content to other social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Formerly, Digg had been a very popular social news website, allowing people to vote web content up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Q...
Pheebohttp://www.pheebo.comVideo Streaming , Link Sharing Pheebo is introducing a new interface to change the way you watch video on the web. Pheebo TV focuses on bringing you the most popular channels and latest videos from YouTube, Reddit, Vimeo, and Facebook in a beautiful app.
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Featured ReviewArs Technica Ars Technicaby tb2571989I started reading Ars Technica after leaving LifeHacker as I wasn't a fan of the re-design. I still find myself back every now and then, but Ars is one of my daily check-ups. One of Ars' strengths is the seriously in-depth articles and reviews. The ridiculious but fascinating 40,00... Tweets by @FlitterWeb Recent Reviewscraigslist craigslistby minioI think the site looks dull now. I hope it evolves into more modern design. And also consider user experience. The History of Byzantium The History of Byzantiumby KrisAI heartily agree with the reviews on this podcast series left so far by other listeners. I've not yet listened to Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast (though I'm now inspired to do so), but the History of Byzantium podcast is a tour de force from Robin. He has done a sterling and balanced job... The History of English Podcast The History of English Podcastby KrisAI have found the History of English podcast absolutely riveting; in fact, I 'binged- listened' my way through the first 100 or so episodes, and am very relieved that there are clearly many more to come :-). History via etymology - a great concept, well-delivered by Kevin. Highly recommended. The History of Byzantium The History of Byzantiumby wladIt's so amazing that we have the opportunity to listen to so many years of history is such a fine detail. It's a marvel of the modern world. Thanks for doing this, Robin! |
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