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 #Chat Rooms, #Collaborative Projects, #Social Networking

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
• 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
  • 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
• 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
• Orkut (now run by Google)
• Twitter

Status

• Internet Traffic Report