Saturday, March 28, 2009

20th Birthday to our World Wide Web

Wow, this year WWW is celebrating the 20th birthday with a rough count of 186.7 million websites. ST Singapore trawling through the websites and have the following for your happy browsing.

This site is a portal for local parents to gather and exchange tips and ideas on bringing up baby.

A site dedicated to naming your newborn. Click on a name and you not only find out its meaning, but also a chart showing when the name was most popular in the last century. Baby Name Wizard (http://www.babynamewizard.com/ ) may be easier to find on search engines, but it loses points on originality.

There may be plenty of pet websites online, but nothing grabs you like the puppy dog
eyes of this one.

A site where you can watch full episodes of vrious cooking shows.

Whether you are scrambling for a cake recipe or need to decide on what wine to take to a dinner party, this site will have what you need. No lack of recipes - over 100,000 for your selection. A tresure trove of information on food.

With more than 700 pages of pictures of delicious food that stimulate your salivary glands. The site is a compilation of recipes from the Web and each picture is a link to the website or blog where the recipe resides. You can submit your food site or blog, make sure with inviting imae of the dish.

The editorial team behind Tastespotting will review the submissions and post those that have the most eye-catching pictures and the most useful links.

Spark People is a weight-lose website for those who need moral support. The site has a community of 5.5 millions member and it encourages you to shed kilograms by dieting and exercises.

The site is updated daily with features cover topics on finance, happiness, family and parenting. An extract from the blog “There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” - Lao Tzu - great sharing.

Fail blog relies on users putting up occassionally embarrassing, silly or co promising pictures or videos for a good laugh. Fail blog will entertain, especially if you have had a bad day.

While sites like Post Secret ( http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/ ) have people baring their soul and confessing their innermost secrets anonymously, this is more of an instant stress therapy.
A blog with over 1 million readers a month, Oddee features the odd, bizarre and strange things of our world. Be amazed!

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. Did we mention that it's free?

It's like having a digital scanner in your pocket ! Scan documents to turn them into digital files you can store, share, and fax. Scanr lets you convert these images into PDF or text files instead o fJPEG format, which storage is a problem and they would be unsearchable.

Geni is a private place for your family to build your family tree. There are. of course, some social networking aspects too.

The site is a collection of pictures that are not only pretty to look at, but also link to other sites. These pictures and links are contributed by netizens aroung the world, but curated bya team of editors who decide what is good enough to go on the site.

This website lets you discover what the rest of the world is feeling through their blogs and internet postings. It takes a while to familiar the navigation.

An entertainment website. An online music service that helps you discover songs.

The Digital Bits keeps track of the home-video market, with news and reviews of the latest and upcoming releases from the United States.

As the name suggests, this site hosts clips, jokes, pictures and games tht are best viewed when you are alone, but there is nothing illegal or pornographic here.

SItes like Comic Book Resources (www.comicbookresources.com) offer something similar, but Newsarama makes everything easier for non-geeks to understand.

TWOP - commonly known. More than just a review of the latest episode of hit shows. TWOP is a site with updates on what took place in all episodes aired to date.

You won't find editors at Digg - Digg collates the articles posted by users around the world. Users collectively determine the value of content and rate the worthiness of the article by "Digging " them. Think of Digg as the equivalent of a music countdown show that ranks the top hits bsed on listeners' votes.

This site teaches you how to take a working product and modify it.

This website offers free software download alternatives, from digital music players to programs that catalogue your DVD collection.