25 Sites We Can‘t Live Without

Apple Movie Trailers
Coming attractions for movie buffs and reason enough to finally get that broadband connection

Blogger
The place to go to create your own blog; tools are powerful and easy to use, and it‘s free

Craigslist
This wildly popular portal of classified ads serving more than 300 cities in the U.S. and across the globe recently expanded its real estate listings, and helps power HousingMaps a mash-up that locates properties for sale using Google Maps. (Craigslist charges fees to real estate brokers in New York and for job ads in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, but is otherwise free.)

Drudge Report
Matt Drudge, newsbreaker, got more than 3.5 billion hits in the past year

Ebay
The auction powerhouse keeps expanding its repertoire, allowing users to write blogs and create wikis (collaborative info-banks), and to "Skype" each other about individual items up for bid (i.e. use the Internet telephony service to place voice calls)

ESPN
Best all-around sports site, with sports news, sports videos, sports columns and sports data galore. Honorable mention goes to MLB.com, which lets you watch baseball games that aren‘t broadcast in your local TV market. The service‘s success inspired CBS Sports to team up with NCAA to offer March Madness on Demand which drew 5 million viewers earlier this year

Factcheck.org
Picks apart speeches, press releases, TV ads and other public statements by politicians of all stripes to set the record straight

Flickr
This public showroom for personal pics is one of the fastest-growing social networks on the Web, and now it has a blog

Google
What started as the Web‘s best search engine has become a jack-of-all-trades, offering all sorts of free applications, from Spreadsheets and Calendar to Picasa (for digital photos) and Gmail. There‘s Google Scholar, which lets you search for academic papers on any topic, and Google Finance (nice charts!); Google Maps has inspired countless "mash-ups" including weatherbonk.com. Register for a free account and you can personalize your home page too. Click here, for a menu of features and services that have officially launched; go to Google Labs for the new stuff that‘s still in beta (such as Spreadsheets). The unaffiliated (but lovingly devoted) Googletutor.com has helpful tips and advice for making the most of all things Google. Read more about some of Google‘s latest-greatest features in the TIME archives.

HowStuffWorks
Easy-breezy explanations of how things work, from money laundering to hybrid cars, game consoles to the human kidneys

The Internet Movie Database
Encyclopedia of entertainment that covers some 800,000 films, television shows and video game titles. Users help keep the Internet Movie Database current, submitting 16 million data bits in 2005 alone

Lifehacker
Computer-tech tips and tricks to help you save time, and keep you sane; sister-blog Gizmodo gives up all the latest gadget news. Too mainstream for you? Best to head over to our favorite geek-convention,Slashdot.org

The Museum of Modern Art
Now available: MoMA Audio, a selection of museum tours as downloadable podcasts. Wear your own earbuds as you walk through the special exhibitions or the permanent collection; separate audio tours are available for kids and for the visually impaired.

Netflix
More than 60,000 DVD titles available to rent, from classics to art-house flicks to major studio releases. Digital delivery is scheduled to start early next year, but don‘t expect those red mailers to be phased out anytime soon

National Public Radio
Not to miss: NPR podcasts, NPR music, NPR This I Believe, NPR Stories

The Onion
Long before The Daily Show, long before Stephen Colbert, there was The Onion, and it‘s still hilarious, and now you don‘t need a subscription to read the fake news archives. Podcasts are also now available

Rotten Tomatoes
Gathers movie reviews from far and wide, and reports box office and other stats; flicks receive a critical average on the 100-point "tomatometer." Movies.com also gets a nod for streaming episodes of "Statler & Waldorf: From the Balcony," an Ebert & Roeper spoof starring those lovable muppet-curmudgeons

Shopzilla
New comparison shopping sites keep popping up (Become.com isn‘t bad) but nothing beats Shopzilla‘s search tools and merchant ratings

Technorati
Blog finder that keeps getting better while the blogosphere gets bigger. Searches are faster and more accurate, and now you can personalize the home page; a new Discover section provides a round-up of top posts by topic. Newcomer Sphere is also worth a look.

Television Without Pity
Bitingly funny TV show recaps

The Smoking Gun
Continues to document interesting news (sample headline: "Six Skulls Found in Strippers Home") and get the occasional big scoop, like outing writer James Frey

Wikipedia
A real Web wonder: this massive, collaborative online encyclopedia is written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers; some 1.3 million articles in English, and millions more in 228 other languages

Yahoo!
Arguably Google‘s toughest competition for top Web property. Check out the new My Web 2.0 service, which incorporates the social bookmarking activities of the recently-acquired del.icio.us (you get to see where other people are surfing, and share your own favorite links). Maps.yahoo.com/traffic offers a visual guide to gridlock situations on major roads in 20 metropolitan areas; Yahoo Photos offers new ways to share images (more advanced search features, tagging and other tools); and the new Yahoo Tech page cherry-picks from CNET‘s playbook. Earlier this summer, Yahoo partner site fifaworldcup.yahoo.com scored with video highlights and a live MatchCast
      Zappos.com
Simply the best place to shop for shoes online, with stellar customer service and free shipping all the time  
拙译如下： 1 Amazon.com
这个就不必多介绍了吧定义了电子商务概念的公司。95年开始运营以来，提供包罗万象的图书选择。新推出的AmazonConnect，可以让你在爱书购书的同时和广大书迷一起分享最爱的作家作品。
2 Apple Movie Trailers
最新最酷的电影预告片集散地。
3 Blogger
免费的个人博客“生产商”，工具轻便好用易上手。
4 Craigslist
服务于美国300多城市的最火的分类广告网站，如今也扩展到全球房地产信息服务领域。密密麻麻的文字标示着各种生活信息，看上去有些乏味，但是在这里，租房卖车修草坪，甚至连老婆都可以找到。
5 Drudge Report
爆料大王Matt Drudge的地盘。当年一语惊人，把克林顿的丑事全盘托出的猛人，如今还是把这个人网站整的红红火火， 去年喜获35亿多的点击率。
6 Ebay
全球最大的C2C电子商务网站，如今也是服务项目颇丰。用户可以撰写博客，为Wiki百科添加条目。在家用SKYPE谈生意的感觉是不是也不错呢？
7 ESPN
名声在外的体育网站，提供即时体坛快报，视频及专栏报道。现在又有了再现直播的功能，当然了，是直播棒球橄榄球，美国人的最爱嘛。
8 Factcheck.org
宾夕法尼亚大学负责运行的Factcheck.org网站，汇集新闻，电视广告和政客的公共讲话等。
9 Flickr
个人相片的超级秀场，也是发展最快的网络社区之一。
10 Google
强劲的搜索引擎如今也开始提供多种免费使用服务。Spreadsheets共享表格（抢Excel的饭碗？），日历，图像管理Picasa和大名鼎鼎的Gmail。
11 HowStuffWorks
介绍各种各样的事物如何工作的网站，例如怎么洗钱，混合动力车的工作原理或是肾脏的工作过程。
12 The Internet Movie Database（IMDB
娱乐界的百科全书。汇聚80万部电影，电视节目和游戏，大家看到电影的评分基本都是这里网友打分的平均值。
13 Lifehacker
介绍有关计算机技术的使用技巧和经验，大大节省了您的时间。其姐妹博客Gizmodo让您第一时间接触那些最新最奇的小玩意。
14 The Museum of Modern Art
提供独特的视频服务，让您坐在家中也如亲临实地般欣赏展品。更为孩子和视觉障碍者提供完美的音频之旅。
15 Netflix
每天有超过6万DVD可供选择的全球最大在线电影租赁服务商。
16 National Public Radio
美国国家公共广播电台，王牌栏目有NPR podcasts, NPR music, NPR This I Believe, NPR Stories。
17 The Onion
专门写假新闻的著名网站。
18 Rotten Tomatoes
IDN娱乐公司旗下娱乐网站，专攻电影新闻。
19 Shopzilla
新的一家专为在线购物者提供搜索服务及比较购买服务的网站，其强大的搜索能力和完善的物品级别评定服务是网站的卖点。
20 Technorati
著名的博客搜索引擎。截止2006年4月，Technorati已经索引了超过3千万个博客站点。搜索服务越发快速和准确。
21 Television Without Pity
提供犀利而又有趣的电视节目评论
22 The Smoking Gun
专门的小道消息和趣闻网站，但有时也会有大新闻出现。
23 Wikipedia
真正的网络奇迹。几乎全部由志愿者撰写，编辑和维护的庞大在线百科全书。现有英文条目130万，另有其他8种语言的数百万条目。
24 Yahoo!
为从Google那里夺回失地，近期从多种Web 2.0服务上得到好评。del.icio.us共享网站收藏夹，Maps.yahoo.com/traffic提供虚拟城市道路导航，Yahoo Photos共享照片，还有CNET支持的科技新闻。今年夏天，世界杯官方的fifaworldcup.yahoo.com又为其赢得了不少点击。
25 Zappos.com
简单的在线鞋店，靠优良的服务和不变得免费送货得到了大量的客户。