The Top Ten Best Web Sites of 2006

A look back on the most influential and outstanding websites of the season. From Google to Craigslist, these are the sites you know and love, along with some you never have heard of.

This is the forum hosting, ad-posting, arm chair hunting, job searching, home community of America. Try it. For anything. Guaranteed love.

Come on, we love it. So for all of finals week, I holed up in my room to write papers and bum on YouTube. It was beautiful. Plus, YouTube is easy to post on external sites, has an amazing range of content, and hosts a great comment-based community.

Personally, I think Amazon is all old news. Sure it has a huge range of shopping options, offers previews for books and music, there's the community of reviewers, sellers and buyers--but as deeply as we all care, was 2006 any sort of standout year? You're slipping, Wendy.

In case you were anxious about the last technology headline you missed-- TECHMEME IS HERE. Scanning the blogs, Techmeme grabs the big tech links and collects them here, your home for all the breaking news of the techie blogosphere.

This should definitely be higher on the list. Now your web browsing is all on one page! Popurls looks at all the recent top hits from the big name blog, video, news and image sites so YOU DON'T HAVE TO.

What would I do without you? Actually, I'd probably just stay at home. I get lost very easily.

Social bookmarking to share, explore, and discover web. I hear the randomizer is a good place to be.

Ah... bring the wonder of the blogosphere to your desktop. Personalize your own 'popurls' with RSS feeds!

And now for something completely different: the U.S. government's official web portal.