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Social Networking: Mashable

http://mashable.com

Mashable is a weblog that reports on the latest news in social networking. Here you will find out about the new social networking sites along with the news on the current popular ones. The current popular social networking sites covered are: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Xanga, and Bebo. Mashable has a section called Mashcodes which provides the latest widgets, generators, graphics, and layouts to pimp out your MySpace, Xanga, or Piczo pages. One of my favorites on this site are the postings by Sean Aune which gives lists of tools that are handy for various personal productivity needs such as online storage, wordpress admin, and Firefox add-ons for security & privacy to list just a few.
This is a site with a large user base and for readers who visit the site, you will not be disappointed.

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Tech: All about Microsoft – Bink.nu

http://bink.nu

Bink.nu is a site focused on the latest news on Microsoft and its products. It lives and breathes in the Microsoft hemisphere. If you work in a Microsoft IT shop as an administrator, developer, manager, or any IT role; this is a must read as they have the pulse on the latest patch updates, beta offerings for the various products/servers, and new products.

They have a mapping of the Microsoft codenames to its various products. They have 16,000+ registered users who contribute to their forums, so if you have a question chances are there’s someone out there who has an answer. You can click on the KBArticles link and it will give you all the latest Microsoft KnowledgeBase articles for the various OS platforms.

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Shopping: Buyer Beware – Epinions

http://www.epinions.com

The first thing I have to say is thank goodness for this site. This site provides evaluations, opinions and reviews submitted by people on a wide range of products, services, merchants, manufacturers, books, movies, travel, music, cars and it just keeps going on. There’s been times where I wanted to buy a product that was cheaper at another online seller that I knew nothing about until I went to epinions and got the real deal on the seller. This site usually helps save one from the hassle of dealing with bad products or sellers. I may like lemons in my ice tea but I prefer to not get one in the form of a product.

I like their top ten lists for products especially when I don’t have too much time to go through pages of different models for a particular item. They also list their top reviewers in the different categories and I give my accolades to them.

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Personal Finance: Social Networking of Stocks – Stockpickr

http://stockpickr.com

Stockpickr is a site where people interested in investing can join and create portfolios of stocks.  They also maintain a list of stock portfolios of professional institutional investors such as Warren Buffett.  Its a place to create your own portfolio, find out what other people are choosing, get some stock ideas, and ask questions about investing.  Once you create your portfolio, the site will track the prices and balances of the stocks you selected in your portfolio.  If you are one hell of a stock picker, your portfolio may make it to the top performer list. It also has integrated analyst opinions, downgrades, upgrades, most actives, and blogs on the latest stock news. The site is tied to Jim Cramer of Mad Money fame and Street.com.

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Tech: Slashdot

http://slashdot.org/

Slashdot is a technical news site for nerds (I would think it would be geeks but oh well). It covers a wide range of technical news about Apple, Gaming, Hardware, IT, Linux, Microsoft, Politics, and Science. It covers the news with breadth and depth. For example, at the time of this writing, slashdot profiled the GNU gperf tool for command-line processing of C/C++ code. Slashdot is the place for everyone to increase their technical IQ points and transform you into your inner nerd.

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News: Drudge Report

http://www.drudgereport.com

The Drudge Report is a news site that has links to the top news of the day. The site was started and is maintained by Matt Drudge who has some connections to insiders in the news media and political circles. The Drudge Report gained notoriety when it broke the news of the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair. Supposedly, some have claim that the Drudge Report has a conservative bent, either way its another channel to get your news. It has a large reader base and has been the weather gauge of the political environment.

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Shopping: Bargain Shopping – Bargainist

http://www.bargainist.com/

Bargainist posts the latest bargain deals from internet promotions to brick and mortar establishments. It also has coupons and freebies that it finds. Its another good site to check for deals from a wide range of shopping needs. It looks like the staff employed by this site, find and post deals as opposed to some other deal sites which is forum based where registered users can post to it.
It has a professional interface which is very easy on the eyes and it is published by the umbrella company called Zombie Corp. Zombie Corp also runs two other sites catered to shopping for men and women. I’ll post more about those two sites separately.

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Fashion: Celebrities fashion snafus – Go Fug Yourself

http://gofugyourself.typepad.com

There are days where even our celebrities look like they got up from the wrong side of the bed. When they do, we delight in seeing them in their most fuggly outfits. If you are interested in what “fug” means, do a search in urban dictionary, we can’t repeat it here but its a creative use of the english language.

Well, this is the blog dedicated solely to reporting on the latest fugs by our beloved celebrities. The bloggers unleash their funny sharped-tongue remarks on unsightly body parts accidentally or not so accidentally exposed, badly designed dresses & suits, color combinations that just don’t work, and hair and makeup that make Freddy Krueger win the beauty prize.  It seems Bai Ling and Britney Spears tops the list of fuggly outfits but even the usually well dressed celebs hit a fug or two. Male celebrities are also not immune to the jabs of this blog with the biggest one that comes into everyone’s mind: K-Fed.  Jude Law also shows up and he’s not known to win any Oscars for his fashion sense with his vests, nasty wife beater white t-shirts, and too tight pants.

The blog also mentions the celebs who do have fashion taste in their well played section.   So, if you want to give your eyes a break, be sure to check that out too.

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Tech: Engadget

http://www.engadget.com

Engadget is a weblog on the latest tech gadgets and gizmos. At the time of this writing, they reported on GPS equipped spy squirrels. Where else can you get this kind of news? Its a fun weblog to read which covers topics ranging from cell phones, robots, wireless devices, household electronics to cameras.

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Shopping: Woot

http://www.woot.com

Woot is a unique shopping site that sells a new product each day.  The product postings usually contain their trademark woot humor along with the product information and specifications.  Each day a new product is put up for sale until 11:59 pm, afterwards a new product is posted.  If you missed purchasing the product you will not be able to buy again until woot decides to sell it again.  As stated in their about page, woot offers very limited customer service if any so be aware if you change your mind on your purchase, they will not provide refunds.  Also if you get a defective product, woot usually recommends contacting the manufacturer to get a replacement.  If you really do not want to go to the manufacturer, woot may provide a refund.

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Career: Clear my career for a takeoff – CareerJet

http://www.careerjet.com

CareerJet is job aggregator site that pulls jobs from multiple sites. CareerJet provides a similar look and feel as Simplyhired with the simple keyword and location search boxes. One of the nice things about the site is: it provides some tabs on the same search page which gives a list of jobs by industry, U.S. locations, international locations, and personalized searches.

You enter your search criteria and it returns the matching job listings pulled from several sites.  If you want more information on the job, you click the link and it will direct you to the actual job source which is external to CareerJet.  In theory, this should make your job search more efficient.  Don’t get us wrong, we like these sites a lot but we noticed some job listings would be broken links which would take us to the source but the job no longer exists.

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Shopping: Online deals – Dealsplus

http://dealspl.us/

Dealsplus is a site that lists deals, coupons, and online promotions to let us keep more greenbacks in our wallets.  The site is not junky looking like the some of the other deal sites that have a forum based style.  It has a clean and simple interface with the pictures of each product and a short description of the deal underneath it.

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Tech: Need to send a Fake Email? – Deadfake

http://deadfake.com/

If you are up to some mischief, deadfake provides a fake email service. If you want to send email under another address, you would use this service. However, as stated on the site, its not meant for illegal or spam purposes so please stay away from the dark side Darth Vader.

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Tech: Say goodbye to spam – Dodgeit

http://dodgeit.com/

Dodgit is another disposal email service that helps the rest of us escape from the evil clutches of spammers. It has a clean and simple interface that isn’t cluttered. You will use this service when you need to register for a site or to access some resource that requires an email address. You simply create your own local part or username of the email address and use @dodgit as the domain name when you provide the email. For example, we would use sharemysite@dodgit.com. Once you give the email, you go to the Dodgit site and enter the email you just created to access any confirmation or emails you receive from the site when you registered. Keep in mind, the information sent to the temporary email is not protected so do not use it for personal or sensitive information.

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Tech: No more spam – mailinator

http://www.mailinator.com/

Tired of getting spam mail in your email inbox? Well, mailinator to the rescue, this site provides temporary emails that you can use to register for sites or whatever else you need to prevent getting spam. You do not need to register or provide any personal information, just create the local name or username of the part of the email address and use the @mailinator as the domain name. For example, we would use sharemysite@mailinator as our temporary email. They also provide randomly generated email addresses if you don’t want to create a custom one. Please note, when you access your temporary email inbox to access any confirmation messages sent by the site you just registered, the information is public and not private. Please use your judgment in determining if you should use the disposable email since the information is not secure.

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Travel: How about a private pool? – VRBO

www.vrbo.com

VRBO stands for Vacation Rentals By Owner. It’s similar to VacationHomeRentals.com but has been around for longer and has more listings. The database search facilities are not very user friendly, but by the sheer volume of listings you wont mind hunting through to find what you’re looking for. In the end you’re looking for a nice place to stay with a kitchen, a place to do laundry, and perhaps a private pool. Again, make sure to call and talk to a real person before you book.

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Tech: Solution Watch

http://www.solutionwatch.com/

Solution Watch is a weblog that provides detailed reviews of products and/or services offered by internet companies. It was started by 20 year old Brian Benzinger in 2005. he products and services profiled are usually for personal productivity and the site has a clean and professional looking interface. Some of the internet companies profiled are not mentioned in TechCrunch. One of my favorite ones is his review of MyMileMarker which is a site to record and analyze auto gas consumption. Another one is Competitious which is used for analyzing your competitor.
I’ll let you visit his site to get the details of those sites mentioned above and many more.

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Travel: Why pay for a hotel? – VacationHomeRentals

www.vacationhomerentals.com

When you have a large party, typically you end up having to book two or more hotel rooms. That can add up quickly, especially if you’re going for a week or more. If you plan ahead you can save quite a bit, plus get a kitchen, a place to do laundry, and friendly personal service to top it off. Often these vacation properties are managed directly by the owners and they give it their personal touch and attention.

VacationHomeRentals.com posts ads for vacation properties for a small fee charged to the property lister. For you and me, it’s free. I like it when the availability is posted directly on the site. It’s quite annoying having to contact them by email and wait for a response. The more pictures the better, but more important are pictures of the actual place, especially a picture of each bed they claim to have.

Unfortunately it’s hard to get good independent reviews of these properties. There’s no way to tell if the reviews provided are truly independent or just the owner’s posting. But there’s no substitute for calling and talking to a real person when booking a place. It’s an absolute must. It’s amazing how much you can tell from listening to someone’s voice.

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Tech: TechCrunch

http://www.techcrunch.com/

TechCrunch is a weblog which covers the latest internet companies and it also provides news on existing ones. TechCrunch usually has the first dibs on the newest companies and does a good job reporting on them. For example, they recently covered 9 different social networking sites and created a detailed matrix comparing them to each other. Now that’s going above and beyond, whoever did that gets an A+ with a red smiley face.

If you look at the list of internet startups or areas they have covered (under company names), its a huge list with a lot of funny sounding names like Auctomatic, sloggen, slapvid (I didn’t check this site out so I hope its not some site I wouldn’t want a kid to see), zingee, zipingo, and the weirdo sounding names keep going on. Damm Web 2.0. So if you want to get the last zingee on the last zipingo without a lot of sloggen, check out TechCrunch.

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Personal Finance: SeekingAlpha

http://seekingalpha.com/

SeekingAlpha is an investment analysis site that provides the latest information on the stock market. They get their information from many sources, sift through it, and post the ones they think is worth paying attention to. According to their About page, they are not really in the business to provide news as much as analysis and commentary about investments. They have over 200 contributors that submit articles to their editorial staff.

The site covers the following industries and geographical regions; Internet, China, Energy, Gadgets, Media, Gold, Telcom, Biotech, Japan, and India.

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