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Five Websites You Should Visit
By Joseph Cortbawi, Staff Writer

 

Sydney, Australia – Technorati (www.technorati.com)

Tracking 66.6 million blogs and counting, Technorati allows you to search content from the world’s most popular blogs. The site offers categorized links to popular content found amongst these blogs so that you never fall behind on “Who’s saying what. Right now.” There is also a ranking of the most popular blogs in the blogosphere over the last six months.

Second Life (www.secondlife.com)

Second Life is the new online multiplayer game, taking the world by storm. Quite simply, Second Life allows you to live a second life online in a fast-expanding community of over three million registered users. Ideally, it allows you to live the life you have always wanted. Upgrading to a premium account means players can buy and sell land using Linden dollars, which can be exchanged for real money. Major companies such as Dell and Adidas have created promotional storefronts within the game, highlighting its advertising potential. The government of Sweden plans to open Second Life’s first official in-game embassy, educating players about the country with travel information and redirection to regular embassy services. Reuters have even launched their own Second Life news page located at secondlife.reuters.com, tracking business, community and economy news.

Flickr (www.flickr.com)

Flickr is possibly the best photo-sharing community on the web. Taking a similar approach to the highly popular video-sharing site YouTube, Flickr allows you to search, upload, share and sort your photos quickly and easily. The community allows users to comment on each other’s photos and form groups. You can share your photos to the world or create private sets for your family and friends. Flickr has high quality photos of just about anything you can think of. Photos are conveniently categorized by tags and keywords that guarantee you will find what you are looking for. Use your Yahoo! ID to sign in and start sharing straight away!

Last.fm (www.last.fm)

Termed “The social music revolution,” Last.fm recommends music to you based on what you listen to. Utilizing the Audioscrobbler plug-in, it tracks what you are listening to in your favorite music player software and creates your own personal profile online. The profile details your favorite music, offering recommendations of artists and songs similar to those on your page. You can also search for similar artists and generate a playlist of similar songs in the Last.fm player without registering an account.

Digg (www.digg.com)

Ever seen that Digg button when reading a news article online? Well, when you click that Digg button, you are telling Digg.com, “This is what I like best.” Digg ranks the most digged news, videos and podcasts so that you can see the most popular in each category over the last 24 hours, week, month or year. Digged media is broken up into categories and can be commented on and searched by users. At Digg.com, the users control the content and have their say on what is important right now.