Map of the known internet. Rendered January 15, 2005. The Opte Project.
Believe it or not, there are other information portals on the internet besides Google and Wikipedia. In no particular order, these are my favorite gateways to new ideas, information, and culture. Enrich your online experience!
- TED: Free lecture content based on ideas worth spreading
- Newsmap: Real-time visualization of top news stories
- StumbleUpon: Portal to user-recommended sites according to different content categories
- Digg: Categorical ranking of current news content
- Cnet: Product reviews, technology news, and software downloads
- WolframAlpha: Computational knowledge engine
- Internet Archive: Text, videos, images, and audio in the public domain
- All Music: Musical reference source
- Documentary Heaven: Archive of free documentaries
- Instructables: User-submitted DIY tutorials
- Academic Earth: Free online courses from academia
- Full Books: Free texts: Business, Film, Illness, Mental Disorders, Nations, Pediatrics, Products, Science, Surgery
- IMDb: Internet movie database
- Art Project: Fully navigable museums from around the world; ultra-high quality images