WebmasterWorld.com offers about 50 different forums for the website administrator and development community. The forums are free and cover topics of relevance to webmasters, including design, functionality, SEO ranking, revenue generating and marketing your website among others, making WebmasterWorld.com one of the internet’s most trafficked websites.
2on.com has a singular purpose — to use a secret formula to reduce your name into an animal type, effectively telling you which animal you are. It sounds simple, but its a surprisingly fun time in the vein of parlor games. Gather your friends around your screen and take turns learning what animals you are. Sure, 2on.com might be a one-trick … er … pony, but it’s worth checking out.
iStockPhoto.com is one of the internet’s premier places to pick up some royalty-free art. Artwork varies in price depending on the size of the image from $1 (suitable for personal use) to $15 (for large scale work or use in print advertising). With around a 1 million images, iStockPhoto.com is full of useful photographs. The website is now owned by Getty Images, the world’s largest supplier of stock images, illustrations and film footage for businesses and consumers. A companion site, iStockVideo.com offer royalty-free video clips.
QuadCooler.com is the website for a great way to keep your laptop cool. This product sits under you laptop and uses four fans to help to eliminate a CPU’s largest enemy — heat. By dissipating this heat, the QuadCooler allows the laptop to maintain it’s performance. The same company also offers a “TriCooler” option which only has 3 fans, but comes with a built in memory card slot and extra USB ports.
EarthLink.net offers dial-up, high-speed, web-hosting and wireless services for individuals and businesses. With free 24-hour phone support, they’ve steadily become one of the United States’ leading internet service providers. Based in Atlanta, GA, EarthLink has over five million individual and business customers and can connect users with a myriad of options and speeds from dial-up and low-cost DSL to T1 and T3 Enterprise solutions.
ChinaLawAndPractice.com is a valuable resource for individuals or companies doing business in or with China. This journal provides translations and analysis of legislation and legal developments in China related to foreign business, domestic joint venters, investment in China and more. China Law and Practice is published 10 times a year in a bilingual (English and Simplified Chinese) edition.
BizRate.com is a comparison shopping website, allowing consumers to quickly compare items from a multitude of stores based on keyword searches or via category browsing. Because a quality buying experience/reliability is as important as price in buying decisions, BizRate.com utilizes a rating system to help would be buyers determine if a specific merchandizer is a good choice.
RecentChangesCamp.org is an opportunity for members of the OpenTechnology/OpenCulture community (including Wiki enthusiasts) to gather in a collaborative environment. The three day un-conference has an open structure allowing attendees to self organize the event as it happens in the BarCamp vein. Sponsored by Porland Development Commission, Atlassian, the Open Source community at Portland State University and AboutUs.org, the event takes place in Portland, Oregon on February 2,3,4, 2007.
IBM.com is the home of IBM, who’s probably best known for their computer technologies. However, IBM is also an industry leading developer and manufacturer of other information technologies, including software, storage systems, printers, workstations and microelectronics. The website features information on all these products as well as support, troubleshooting, drivers and more.
Mozilla.org is probably best known for it’s development and support of the Firefox internet browser and Thunderbird email clients. This open-source community makes both applications freely available and helps develop and support other projects including the Bugzilla server software, and development tools Bonsai and Tinderbox. All the source code in the Mozilla family is not only available to everyone, but they cultivate an environment of sharing and development for software around the world.