So where is all this world wide web information?
So you are interested in surfing the web? Not quite sure where to start? Let me suggest a site or five! Although, you may wish to read the previous post about optimizing your browser before you start any heavy duty web surfing!
Stop #1 – The Social Web aka Web 2.0
There are countless web 2.0 sites out there. Most of them are not that great. A few that are well worth the time are:
www.digg.com – The site is a little clunky and takes some time to get used to. Once you work through the ins and outs of the site, you can spend the rest of your earthly time here never seeing the same thing twice! Highly recomended.
www.reddit.com – Another 2.0 site that is clunky and tough to get used to. Great site in delivering tons of information.
Stop #2 – The Search Engines
www.google.com – The standard in web searches. Put in any search word, question, equation, you name it and Google will give you a load of information, answers, news, maps, etc. There isn’t a day I do not use Google at least 10 times. Highly recommended!
www.yahoo.com – The “other” search site. Yahoo! is a great search engine that also touts a decent news repository as well as groups, blogs, etc.
Stop #3 – Let the programs surf for you
www.stumbleupon.com – This little program has become a leviathan. Once installed, you click the “stumble” button and are taken to a new website of your predefined interests. Think “channel surfing on your TV.” This program is highly addictive, entertaining and will waste all of your time if you lack the will to turn off your computer every now and again!
Stop #4 – Tunes to accompany your surfing
www.pandora.com – This has to be the best site on the web! You simply enter a song or artist, or even a style or genre into the pandora player and you begin hearing song after song of music that you will inevitably like or know already. If, by chance, you do not like a song that is played, you simply give that song a “thumbs down” and you will never hear it again! This site is slowly overtaking my mp3 collection in popularity. Another cool thing about Pandora.com is if you change computers or are on somebody else’s computer, you can log in and play all your favorite music. No CDs, no iPods, nothing to lug around with you.
Wrap-up
I hope this post has been useful. All of these sites are great places to start when it comes to the world wide web.
