What’s Hot Online

If you write for the web, here’s a full deck of 52 must-have bookmarks to see what’s hot online right now, and to help you make the most of those trends for your website. Links are organized into bookmarking sites, top web lists, hottest books and papers, trend lists, the hottest blogs, hottest videos online, as well as photo resources, and websites about web design.

Hot Bookmarks

del.icio.us The tastiest bookmarks being saved right now by people like you.

StumbleUpon Discover the Best of the Web in less time

BuzzFeed See what’s going viral!

Digg Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users.

Alltop All the Top Stories

iambored Loads of viral videos, games, memes, lists and social networking for when you’re bored.

diigo Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes

Propeller Most Popular Stories: Prop it or Drop it

maple Social bookmarking site and a site discovery tool

coRank (beta)

blogmarks Public Bookmarking

mylinkvault Online Links Made Easy

Top List Sites

Alexa Top 500 Global Sites The Godfather of Web Ranking

The Webby Awards Browse the best of the best of the best, by year or category

Books and Papers

Project Gutenberg The Top Book Downloads

Amazon Best Sellers

Lulu’s Top Titles Independently Published Books and e-books

CiteULike Free service for managing and discovering scholarly references

LibraryThing Zeitgeist “Firehose meet mouth.”

penntags Hottest Tags from the University of Pennsylvania

Reader2 Most popular books from their readers’ lists

Trends

Google Trends What the world is looking for most today

trendwatching Scans the globe for emerging consumer trends with free reports

Springwise Daily business ideas from around the world

Blogs that Influence the Net

The Huffington Post The Internet Newspaper

Mashable The Social Media Guide

Lifehacker Tips and downloads for getting things done

TechCrunch Dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies

ProBlogger Blog tips to help you make money blogging

Wired In-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology

Seth Godin’s Blog Riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.

Googleblog The Official Blog of Google

CopyBlogger Copywriting and Content Marketing Strategies

ReadWriteWeb Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking and Social Media

Un-Marketing Stop Marketing. Start Engaging

MakeUseOf Cool websites, software and internet tips

WSJ Photo Journal Photo Blog from the Wall Street Journal

The Frame Photo Blog from The Sacramento Bee

Cinematical Movies and then some

Hottest Videos

YouTube Top Videos The Best of YouTube

Yahoo Videos Top Videos

Metacafe Top Movies & Funny Videos

DailyMotion Most Popular Videos

Break Top Rated Most popular of the day’s videos

Photos

PhotoXpress 500,000 Free Stock Photos

Flickr Explore 1000′s of Photos

Public Domain Photos 5000 Free Photos

Websites about Websites

Smashing Magazine Design and Web-Development.

A List Apart For People Who Make Websites

NetTuts+ Web development tutorials, from beginner to advanced

Six Revisions Web Development and Design Information

Mayhem Studios Method to the Mayhem