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
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
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