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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.
Articles
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
- 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
Communities
see #Chat Rooms, #Collaborative Projects
Collaborative Projects
- Amazon Mechanical Turk: automating human information processing
- Cambrian House: for-profit idea sharing
- PeLeMa: simpler interface; no "groups" (US only?)
- crowdsourcing:
- 2006-11-03 Gannett to Crowdsource News
Fonts
- GMK freefonts: several thousand free fonts
History
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
- Zombo.com: parody of web site self-overhype
- The Daily WTF: "Curious Perversions in Information Technology"
- ...about the humanities:
- 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...
- Kattalogen: parental advisory: this site contains levels of cattage which may be toxic over prolonged exposure times
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
- 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
- emusic:
- free streams (aside from #Radio) (all work with Linux/Firefox):
- 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
Search Engines
Social Networking
- Flork
- Friendster
- MySpace: generally regarded as awful, although extremely popular
- Orkut (now run by Google)