the Internet

Overview

This section is about the Internet as a place where people (users) connect and interact with each other. For technical information about the internet, see Computing.

Articles

• blogs
• webcomics
• video sharing

Directory

Advertising

• Google AdWords: per-click text-only advertising
• Project Wonderful: per-time auctioned advertising
• Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture, formerly goto.com): per-click advertising

Auction & Barter Sites

• eBay: hugely popular auction site
• MightyBids: online auctions
• SwapAce: "buy, sell, swap, meet, barter, and negotiate for free"

Audio

see also #Music, #Radio

• The Freesound Project: Creative Commons licensed sounds (sound effects, etc.)

Brainstorming

Places where new ideas are collected and discussed

• AllYourIdeas wiki: post original practical ideas
• SinceSlicedBread.com: "What's your common sense idea?"

Chat Rooms

• SluggySquad

Communities

see also #Chat Rooms, #Collaborative Projects, #Social Networking

• opinion:
  • 2007-02-20 blogging and communities

Collaborative Projects

• Amazon Mechanical Turk: automating human information processing
• Cambrian House: for-profit idea sharing
• Helium: paid writing & collaborative editorship
  • about
• PeLeMa: simpler interface; no "groups" (US only?)
• crowdsourcing:
  • 2006-11-03 Gannett to Crowdsource News
• reputation tracking:
  • RapLeaf

Fonts

• GMK freefonts: several thousand free fonts

History

• Internet Archive

Hosting

Data Services

not sure if these services are available to customers globally, just in the US, or in certain countries only

• Amazon S3 Web Services
• rsync.net: "Secure, Online, Geo-Redundant Data Storage for Offsite Backup, Remote Access, and Personal Use."

Humor

• ...about computers:
  • BodgeCo
  • Bud Uglly Design: parody of bad web page design
  • CLOSE THIS WINDOW! Turn off the Internet!
    • Surprisingly, they don't suggest playing the internet backwards in order to hear the Satanic messages....
  • Zombo.com: parody of web site self-overhype
  • The Daily WTF: "Curious Perversions in Information Technology"
• ...about the humanities:
  • The Postmodernism Generator
• Novelty sites
  • Warning Label Generator and Warning Sign Generator (same idea, different layout for the result)

Images

• Image Sharing
  • deviantART: original artwork
  • flickr: photos
  • PBase Photo Database
• Cute Animal Pictures
  • Cute Overload: "we scour the Web for only the finest in Cute Imagery"
  • Kittenwar: ratemykitten meets the card game War
  • Rate My Kitten: kittens, kittens, and more kittens
  • stuffonmycat.com: cats, with stuff on them
  • The Daily Kitten: "a new kitten every day... at 3:07 pm"
  • cats with captions...
    • another variation
  • Kattalogen: parental advisory: this site contains levels of cattage which may be toxic over prolonged exposure times
  • I Can Has Cheezburger?: a blog of lolcats images

Literature

• Jim Baen's Universe: online F/SF magazine

Maps

Maps of the internet

• The Opte Project: graphical maps of all Class C networks on the Internet

Music

see also #Radio

• free, legal downloads
  • Jamendo
  • Magnatune: "The open music record label"
  • Mr. Furious Records: free downloads of complete songs
  • artists with free downloads:
    • The Cheap Imitation: all tracks Creative Commons licensed
    • Hrishikesh Hirway and his One AM Radio
• legal and portable but not free:
  • emusic:
    • site is slightly annoying because there is apparently no link to see what music they have until you sign up, although there is a free trial period; however, this URL seems to work even if you aren't signed up
    • 2006-05-22 Making money selling music without DRM: the rise of eMusic
• free streams (aside from #Radio) (all work with Linux/Firefox):
  • Aimee Mann
  • Lesley Gore
• independent artist promotion sites:
  • last.fm
  • Indie911 [[W!]] (see also Hoooka)
• novel demonstrations online:
  • whitney music box: the music of the spheres!
  • BallDroppings: the Windows download version works in WINE
• information about artists
  • WikiMusicGuide, "The music fan site that anyone can edit" (still in beta, so memberships are not automatic)

Radio

Radio stations listenable over the net (without special software or a subscription)

• Egg Radio
• Radio Hidebound: "151 proof college radio aged 20 years" (but they do play stuff younger than 20)
• MFA Radio: a feed from Music for America (haven't actually tried to load it yet --Woozle 12:30, 14 November 2006 (EST))

Rights

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Open Rights Group

Search Engines

• The main ones
  • Google
  • Yahoo!
• new/experimental
  • Factbites
  • Qwika: wiki search

Social Networking

• FaceBook
• Flork
• Friendster
• LinkedIn: networking for professionals
• MySpace: generally regarded as awful, although extremely popular
• Ning: "Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds. You can make it public or private and for anything - and anyone - you'd like."
• Orkut (now run by Google)
• Twitter

Status

• Internet Traffic Report