"What's New and Exciting About the Web Right Now?" Asks Time Magazine

Time selects the top 50 web sites of 2007, from Photonhead.com to Cellswapper and FunnyorDie.com to Lastfm

Jan. 2, 2008 01:30 PM

Time magazine has chosen what it considers to be the top 50 web sites of 2007 - sites that show, "...exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience."

In the Social Networks category, the top sites included among others StumbleUpon, Hitchsters (a carpooling site), and LinkedIn.

Among the News & Information sites that made the Top Fifty were INGDirect.com (a banking site), OpenSecrets.org (a campaign finance analysis site), and NowPublic.com, a "citizen journalism" site.

The Web Services category included among others: Mozy.com (online file backup service); Tumblr.com (blogging service), and Twitter (microblogging).

Time also had an Arts & Leisure category, in which sites which made the Top Fifty list included among others: Wotartist.com (art gallery), PhotonHead.com (digital photography), and CellSwapper.com (wireless carrier contract swapping site).

The final category, Audio & Video, included among others: FunnyOrDie.com (a YouTube alternative), Last.fm (custom radio), and Lala.com (a digital music store).

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, of the all-new Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, of the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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