TIME Magazine: 25 websites you can't live without

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Time magazine has announced a new list of the top 50 websites in 2005: The 25 websites you can't live without. Of course, the inseparable here refers to the old beauty's favorite. (After reading, we can't prevent to say that the Chinese people's life is inseparable from the website) not to say more, start to report: 1 Amazon.com The company that defined the concept of e-commerce needs no introduction. Since its inception in 1995, it has provided a comprehensive selection of books. AmazonConnect is a new app that allows you to share your favorite authors with book lovers while buying and loving books. 2 Apple Movie Trailers The latest and coolest movie trailers. 3 Blogger Free personal blog "producers", The tool is light and easy to use. 4 Craigslist Craigslist is the most popular classified advertising site in more than 300 cities in the United States and has expanded to include real estate listings worldwide. The dense text marks a variety of life information, it looks a little boring, but here, rent, sell cars to repair lawns, and even the wife can be found. 5 Drudge Report fact Matt king Drudge's turf. The man who told all the ugly things about Clinton that year is still making this person's website prosperous, with more than 3.5 billion hits last year. 6 Ebay The world's largest C2C e-commerce site is now also a large number of services. Users can write blogs and add entries to Wikipedia. Isn't it nice to do business on SKYPE at home? 7 ESPN ESPN ESPN And now there's the ability to relive, of course, baseball and football, America's favorite. 8 Factcheck.org The University of Pennsylvania runs Factcheck.org, a website that aggregates news, television ads and public speeches by politicians. 9 Flickr The super show of personal photos, It is also one of the fastest growing online communities. 10 Google Powerful search engines are now offering a variety of free services. Spreadsheets share spreadsheets. Calendar, image management Picasa and the famous Gmail. 11 HowStuffWorks Websites that explain how all sorts of things work, such as how to launder money, how a hybrid car works or how a kidney works. 12 The Internet Movie Database (IMDB The encyclopedia of entertainment. Bringing together 800,000 movies, TV shows and games, you can see that the movie rating is basically the average of the netizens' ratings here. 13 Lifehacker Introduces tips and experiences about the use of computer technology, which will greatly save your time. Its sister blog, Gizmodo, keeps you up to date with the latest and strangest gadgets. 14 The Museum of Modern Art provides a unique video service that allows you to enjoy the exhibits at home as if you were in the field. Perfect audio tour for children and the visually impaired. 15 Netflix The world's largest online movie rental service with more than 60,000 DVDS available every day. 16 National Public Radio NPR podcasts, NPR music, NPR This I Believe, NPR Stories. 17 The Onion A famous website devoted to fake news. 18 Rotten Tomatoes An entertainment website owned by IDN Entertainment that specializes in movie news. 19 Shopzilla A new website for online shoppers to provide search services and comparison-buy services, its powerful search capabilities and comprehensive item rating services are the selling points of the site. 20 Technorati As of April 2006, Technorati has indexed more than 30 million blog sites. Search services are getting faster and more accurate. 21 Television Without Pity provides sharp and interesting TV program comments 22 The Smoking Gun A site dedicated to gossip and tidbits, but sometimes big news comes out. 23 Wikipedia The true wonder of the web. A vast online encyclopedia written, edited and maintained almost entirely by volunteers. There are 1.3 million articles in English and millions more in eight other languages. 24 Yahoo! In an effort to regain ground from Google, it has recently received positive reviews from a variety of Web 2.0 services. del.icio.us offers virtual city directions at Maps.yahoo.com/traffic, shared Photos at Yahoo Photos, and tech news powered by CNET. This summer, the official World Cup website, fifaworldcup.yahoo.com, earned it a lot of hits. 25 Zappos.com Simple online shoe store, Got a lot of customers with excellent service and constant free delivery.