best sites http://www.webupon.com/tags/best sites New posts about best sites Five Best Internet Sites to Pass the Time http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Five-Best-Internet-Sites-to-Pass-the-Time.377761 We all find ourselves unintentionally "interneting" at times. Whether it's at the office, in a class, on the road, in a plane, on a train, or at home inside (perhaps due to rain?), wandering on the web is inevitable. Actually, even as I write this I am at work. Checking social networking sites repeatedly gets old fast, but that can be a thing of the past with these five amazing sites. Lets face it, the internet is an unbelievable resource, but often finding worthwhile material is difficult; but don't worry these five sites have made it easy for you.

Here are the best five sites on which to pass your time learning, earning, searching and discovering.

Craigslist

Founded in the late 1990s by Craig Newmark, Craigslist is a network of online communities where you can find anything you could possibly imagine, anywhere you can possibly imagine. Simply select the region of interest, and immediately you can browse the region's classified advertisements, upcoming events, items for sale, services people are offering, and participate in forums. The quantity of material and the knowledge you will find is unbelievable and inextinguishable, as it changes between regions and is systematically updated.

Stumbleupon

The entire purpose of Stumbleupon is to discover interesting websites and then share them with others. Stumbleupon is a toolbar that is easy to install and can be downloaded from http://www.stumbleupon.com. Once installed every time a user clicks the Stumble button he or she will be taken to a random webpage related to the preferences selected. Like it? Click the thumbs-up button which boosts the page's popularity. Don't like it? Click the thumbs-down button and people will be less likely to stumble upon it. Then what? Simply click the Stumble button again, and off you go… Plus, Stumbleupon has a variety of filters which allow you to stumble just images, Wikipedia, videos, news articles and others.

Fark

Fark is community website that hosts daily news articles and other various materials. Readers can submit links to interesting articles, and also comment on existing articles. Get the strangest current sports stories, political happenings, and business events with Fark. Fark is the place to be if you want to find out what's really happening in the world today.

Flickr

Flickr is an online community that hosts videos and images. With Flickr you can upload photos, browse photos of friends and family, or just browse photos to your heart's content. Users can add tags to images which makes browsing photos quick, easy, exciting, and fun. Hosting over 3 billion images, Flickr allows you to see the whole world from your computer.

Triond

Triond allows users to publish material and receive royalties from advertising. What can you publish? The report you just finished, a photo of your dog, a poem you wrote, a review of a movie… just about anything. Publishing is easy and fun with Triond, and the results are real. Create content, submit it to Triond, and earn money based on the page views your piece receives. Triond is also a social networking site which allows you to make friends and view other works that have been published.

]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:32:55 PST Attention Geeks and Nerds: Use These Sites to Become Super Geeks and Nerds http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Attention-Geeks-and-Nerds-Use-These-Sites-to-Become-Super-Geeks-and-Nerds.65739 Increase your intellectual dominance:

The Learn List

Can you use every tool on the learn list? If not; how will you ever design the perfect website to hypnotize a horde of internet users and build up an army to attack Microsoft with? Also remember W3schools for more web for world domination.

Programming Tutorials

How many programming languages have you mastered this week? Use this amazing site to master the few programming languages you don't know yet.

Safari Books Online

Really good books! Instead of buying one or two books at a time buy a whole library for the same price.

Lecturefox

How about a free university lecture on a geeky subject like: Collective intelligence or electronics on plastic. You can find many subjects with hundreds of lectures in video audio or text. Lectures are from universities like MIT, Oxford and many more.

You already think like a geek, now look like one:

ThinkGeek

Every geek knows ThinkGeek but here are a few categories' you need for your new improved super nerd/geek image:

Design Loot

Visit them for a few really good nerd shirts.

Make money the nerd way:

Make money to buy all your geek gadgets.

Ideas!

Plant a few smart ideas in your over-sized brain for making money. Then use them to finance your plan of world domination.

Triond

Use your superior geek knowledge to create content and then get paid properly. Any content accepted; video, articles, pictures and more.

e-Monetized

Now you know to design the perfect site, but how do you use it to make money? eMonetized is your answer.

Now that you have the money; buy the gear:

J-box

Let's face it; all the best gadgets and gear comes from Japan. Jbox is a store specializing in Japanese toys, figurines, Japanese pop culture items and more. Hello kitty vibrating shoulder massageranyone?

Dealextreme

This is my favorite gadget site! They are cheaper than dirt, offer better service than Santa and offer worldwide free shipping on all products. If the previous category didn't work for you this is the site to use. Sometimes you get the same gadgets ThinkGeek offers but at a fraction of the price.

Think Geek

Once again, what geek or nerd can live without a ThinkGeek gadget or two?

A few I like:

  • Prove you're a real nerd by solving an Irregular IQ Cube
  • Fight your geek friends the geek way with these
  • Something to keep you company 2:30 in the morning when you're programming the next great piece of p2p software: Glow Brick

Other sites geeks and nerds can't go without:

Slashdot For all your daily nerd news.

Boing Boing Your original “directory of wonderful things”, a group blog.

Linux Questions Because nerds don't like the evil of Microsoft.

Online Alarm Clock Never oversleep, you've got things to program and people to im.

Conclusion

There are millions of sites geeks and nerds could potentially like or use but I don't know half of them. If you do on the other hand; feel free to comment and add them to this admittedly limited list.

Remember to take a break between your 12 hour programming or web surfing marathons.

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