Difference between revisions of "the Internet"

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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.

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 * [http://www.projectwonderful.com/ Project Wonderful]: per-time auctioned advertising
 * [http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Search Marketing] (formerly [http://www.content.overture.com/ Overture], formerly goto.com): per-click advertising
-===Auction & Barter Sites===
+===Auction
-* [[eBay]]: hugely popular auction site
-* [http://www.mightybids.com/ MightyBids]: online auctions
-* [http://www.swapace.com/ SwapAce]: "buy, sell, swap, meet, barter, and negotiate for free"
-===Audio===
-''see also [[#Music]], [[#Radio]]''
-* [http://freesound.iua.upf.edu The Freesound Project]: Creative Commons licensed sounds (sound effects, etc.)
-===Brainstorming===
-''Places where new ideas are collected and discussed''
-* [http://www.allyourideas.com/ AllYourIdeas] wiki: post original practical ideas
-* [http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/ SinceSlicedBread.com]: "What's your common sense idea?"
-===Chat Rooms===
-* [[SluggySquad]]
-===Communities===
-''see also [[#Chat Rooms]], [[#Collaborative Projects]], [[#Social Networking]]''
-* '''opinion''':
-** '''2007-02-20''' [http://dsgazette.blogspot.com/2007/02/blogging-and-communities.html blogging and communities]
-===Collaborative Projects===
-* [http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Amazon Mechanical Turk]: automating human information processing
-* [http://www.cambrianhouse.com/ Cambrian House]: for-profit idea sharing
-* [http://www.pelema.com/ PeLeMa]: simpler interface; no "groups" (US only?)
-* [[crowdsourcing]]:
-** '''2006-11-03''' [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/media/0,72067-0.html Gannett to Crowdsource News]
-* '''reputation tracking''':
-** [http://www.rapleaf.com/ RapLeaf]
-===Fonts===
-* [http://www.gmkfreefonts.com/index.php GMK freefonts]: several thousand free fonts
-===History===
-* [http://archive.org Internet Archive]
-===Hosting===
-====Data Services====
-''not sure if these services are available to customers globally, just in the US, or in certain countries only''
-* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/002-4504225-3505624?node=16427261 Amazon S3 Web Services]
-* [http://rsync.net/ rsync.net]: "Secure, Online, Geo-Redundant Data Storage for Offsite Backup, Remote Access, and Personal Use."
-===Humor===
-* ...about computers:
-** [http://www.softwarereality.com/truestories/bodgeco.jsp BodgeCo]
-** [http://budugllydesign.com Bud Uglly Design]: parody of bad web page design
-** [http://www.citizensunitednegatingtechnology.org/ CLOSE THIS WINDOW! Turn off the Internet!]
-*** Surprisingly, they don't suggest playing the internet backwards in order to hear the Satanic messages....
-** [http://zombo.com Zombo.com]: parody of web site self-overhype
-** [http://thedailywtf.com The Daily WTF]: "Curious Perversions in Information Technology"
-* ...about the humanities:
-** [http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo The Postmodernism Generator]
-* Novelty sites
-** [http://www.warninglabelgenerator.com/ Warning Label Generator] and [http://www.warningsigngenerator.com/ Warning Sign Generator] (same idea, different layout for the result)
-===Images===
-* '''Image Sharing'''
-** [http://www.deviantart.com/ deviantART]: original artwork
-** [http://www.flickr.com/ flickr]: photos
-** [http://pbase.com/ PBase Photo Database]
-* '''Cute Animal Pictures'''
-** [http://cuteoverload.com/ Cute Overload]: "we scour the Web for only the finest in Cute Imagery"
-** [http://kittenwar.com/ Kittenwar]: ratemykitten meets the card game War
-** [http://ratemykitten.com/ Rate My Kitten]: kittens, kittens, and more kittens
-** [http://www.stuffonmycat.com/ stuffonmycat.com]: cats, with stuff on them
-** [http://dailykitten.com/ The Daily Kitten]: "a new kitten every day... at 3:07 pm"
-** [http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/cats.htm cats] with captions...
-*** [http://www.knitemare.org/cats/ another variation]
-** [http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/ Kattalogen]: parental advisory: this site contains levels of cattage which may be toxic over prolonged exposure times
-** [http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ I Can Has Cheezburger?]: a blog of lolcats images
-===Literature===
-* [http://www.baens-universe.com/ Jim Baen's Universe]: online [[fantasy|F]]/[[science fiction|SF]] magazine
-===Maps===
-''Maps of the internet''
-* [http://www.opte.org/ The Opte Project]: graphical maps of all Class C networks on the Internet
-===Music===
-''see also [[#Radio]]''
-* free, legal downloads
-** [[Jamendo]]
-** [http://magnatune.com Magnatune]: "The open music record label"
-** [http://www.mrfuriousrecords.com/ Mr. Furious Records]: free downloads of complete songs
-** artists with free downloads:
-*** [[htwiki:The Cheap Imitation|The Cheap Imitation]]: all tracks Creative Commons licensed
-*** [http://www.theoneamradio.com/ Hrishikesh Hirway and his One AM Radio]
-* legal and portable but not free:
-** [http://emusic.com 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, [http://www.emusic.com/browse/all.html this URL] seems to work even if you aren't signed up
-*** '''2006-05-22''' [http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/emusic.ars Making money selling music without DRM: the rise of eMusic]
-* free streams (aside from [[#Radio]]) (all work with Linux/Firefox):
-** [http://aimeemann.com/ Aimee Mann]
-** [http://www.lesleygore.com/ Lesley Gore]
-* independent artist promotion sites:
-** [[last.fm]]
-** {{wikify|http://indie911.com|Indie911}} (see also [http://hoooka.com Hoooka])
-* novel demonstrations online:
-** [http://www.coverpop.com/whitney/ whitney music box]: the music of the spheres!
-** [http://www.balldroppings.com/ BallDroppings]: the Windows download version works in [[WINE]]
-* information about artists
-** [http://www.wikimusicguide.com/ 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)''
-* [http://www.eggradio.com/ Egg Radio]
-* [http://www.radiohidebound.com/ Radio Hidebound]: "151 proof college radio aged 20 years" (but they do play stuff younger than 20)
-* [http://www.musicforamerica.org/music/radio MFA Radio]: a feed from Music for America ''(haven't actually tried to load it yet --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 12:30, 14 November 2006 (EST))''
-===Rights===
-* [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation]
-* [http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ Open Rights Group]
-===Search Engines===
-* '''The main ones'''
-** [http://google.com Google]
-** [http://yahoo.com Yahoo!]
-* '''new/experimental'''
-** [http://www.factbites.com/ Factbites]
-** [http://www.qwika.com/ Qwika]: wiki search
-===Social Networking===
-* [http://facebook.com FaceBook]
-* [http://www.flork.com/ Flork]
-* [http://friendster.com Friendster]
-* [http://www.linkedin.com LinkedIn]: networking for professionals
-* [http://myspace.com MySpace]: generally regarded as awful, although extremely popular
-* [http://www.ning.com/ 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."
-* [http://orkut.com Orkut] (now run by [[Google]])
-* [http://twitter.com Twitter]
-===Status===
-* [http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ Internet Traffic Report]

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