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| Best Lists | 100 Best Websites | Annotated list in order of rating. | |
| Google Directory |
Quality sites chosen and arranged
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| PC Magazine | Lists both 100 Best Classic and Undiscovered Websites in various topics. | busy site- but some neat finds. | |
| Local Info | Suffolk Web | See Quick Links and Topic Guides. | |
| Southampton Press | You can read most of the weekly paper online, and if you have a subscription or are viewing it in the library, you can search archives and retrieve full text. |
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| Shopping | Amazon.com | User-friendly, huge selections, and reliable. The best place to price quotes on electronics, media, books, etc. Ratings on vendors and product reviews. | registration when purchasing |
| Ebay.com | Global marketplace for both new and used items. Buyers and vendors are rated. | registration for buying/selling and list maintenance. | |
| Craigslist | Bulletin board with anonymous email forwarding. Find jobs, apartments, property, tickets, etc. These classifieds are organized geographically. | email required | |
| Kelley Blue Book | Used and new car prices. | ||
| Consumer Search | Compares ratings from various sources and makes recommendations for appliances, electronics, weight loss programs, travel web sites, and much more. | ||
| Information | Wikipedia | Multilingual online encyclopedia written and edited by its users. | |
| About | 750 subject experts provide guidance on diverse topics from "search engines" to "tea." | ||
| Library of Congress | Amazing access to American Memory, World Digital Library, Veterans History, current and historical congressional records, and special exhibitions on everything from Herblock to Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| Medline Plus | National Library of Medicine and Institute of Health provide easily understood information about drugs, diseases and conditions with links to directories, news, tutorials and clinical trials. Multilanguage. | ||
| Yahoo Finance | Financial news and research and message boards. Yahoo account holders also provided various tools for portfolio management. | registration | |
| Genealogy | Cyndi's List | Great starting point- an index to print and online genealogical info. | |
| Social Networking |
Social Networking site- keep in
touch with family and friends globally. Post news and pictures, share (eavesdrop) and chat. A persistent shoulder tapper, that holds the web you build with them hostage. 150 million active users. |
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| Picasa | Back-up your photos with Google and invite friends to view albums. Similar sites are Flickr and Snapfish. |
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| You Tube | Video sharing with ratings. | register for postings | |
| Skype | Global phoning and chatting with video. |
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| News | NYT | The New York Times- with links to all departments, archives of reviews and obituaries, sample first chapters of books, crossword puzzles online, movie times by zip code, podcasts. Today's articles can be emailed by the site to friends. | many archived articles free |
| CNN | Breaking news reports- both in print and video and podcasts. | ||
| ESPN | All your sports scores, stories and videos. | ||
| Online Newspapers | A directory of links to global papers in all languages. | ||
| Drudge Reports | Matthew Drudge makes commentary and links to other news sources. | ||
| NPR | News and commentary that you may read or listen to- live or thru podcasts. | ||
| Weather | Weather Underground provides current conditions, forecasts, and historic charts. Search globally by city, zip code, or airport code. | ||
| Places | World Factbook | Our CIA provides current and concise info on nations of the world. | |
| Portals to the World | Library of Congress' directory to research on nations of the world. | ||
| City Search | Browse Restaurants of all major cities by neighborhood, price range, type of food, etc., with links to menus. | ||
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Geographic Traveler |
Armchair travel at its finest- links to articles, photos and blogs. | ||
| Travel | Expedia | Air and Hotel tickets + + + Ratings, Reviews, Conde Naste articles, Insider Tips. Links to maps and hotel sites w pics. Price Guarantee. | register to buy |
| Kayak | Comparison shopping for air & hotel tickets with major vendors: Expedia, Priceline, Hotwire, Travelocity and Airfare.com. | ||
| Yapta |
Track airline ticket prices for
best deals, and get vouchers/refunds. Note: works direct with airlines, but only with certain ones. |
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| Sidestep | Travelers Search Engine with Vayama option for international searches. Sidebar lets you refine results- by time, stops, etc. | ||
| Travel Zoo | Posts best travel deals from 900 vendors- see weekly email of Top 20- and cans search multiple brokers: orbitz, hotels.com, etc. | ||
| Trip Advisor | 20,000,000+ traveler reviews & opinions of hotels, vacations & things to do. | ||
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sites of hotels and airlines for specials, as many of the best airlines/hotels don't sell through brokers. |
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| Food | Recipes | See listings from Google Directory. | |
| Online Dating | Forbes BOW | Forbes Magazine lists key companies and provides reviews. See link at top of page for other Forbes Best of Web listings. | |
| for Readers | Their Reading page links to award winners, recommended reading lists, and lists of books in series. Read the Book Blog for commentary and notice of upcoming titles. Novelist provides Author read-a-likes. | use library account for access to Novelist database. | |
| Bookspot.com | Links for First Chapters and online books, as well as genre and award winning lists, and a directory to book reviews and podcasts. | ||
| Book Club Resources | PBS provides list of Books and web sites for great book discussions. Links to Bestsellers, First Chapters, genre reading lists, author sites, reviews and vendors. | ||
| Job Hunting | Indeed | Enter the kind of work and/or location to find listings from across the web including job sites like HotJobs and Monster. | |
| Fun | Pandora | Create a custom "radio station" online. | |
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http://boxerjam.com, or http://games.yahoo.com/ or http://freerice.com/ | ||
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