TIME has Released the Best Websites of 2011, to honor
“the scrappy newcomers and established players that make the Web so useful, entertaining and just plain indispensable”. Artistic, conceptual sites like Dear Photograph, therefore, can rub shoulders with an established gaming and tech site like The Escapist.
The sites are divided into broad categories including Sports, News and Info and Social Media. Time has run the list since 2005, adapting the broad categories a number of times since its inception.
Initial nominations for the list were made by Time Magazine’s editors, with the final 50 being decided by public vote. The list was then released with commentary by Time columnist and editor of tech siteTechnologizer, Harry McCracken.
Here is the list by category:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2087815_2087821,00.html
Music and Video
8tracks
HBO GO
Howcast
My Damn Channel
Turntable.fm
Family and Kids
CafeMom
Dear Photograph
Poptropica
Proust
Wonderopolis
Sports
Bleacher Report
Grantland
Jayski’s Silly Season Site
Onion Sports Network
SB Nation
News and Info
Big Think
GetHuman
Instapaper
ScienceDaily
Techmeme
Financial and Productivity
DuckDuckGo
Evernote
Join.me
Kickstarter
LearnVest
Shopping and Travel
Airbnb
Gogobot
Hipmunk
Polyvore
Retrevo
Health and Fitness
CalorieKing
HealthGrades
MapMyRun
Summer Tomato
Zen Habits
Social Media
Google+
Klout
Pinterest
Quora
Storify
Games
The Escapist
Giant Bomb
OnLive
Touch Arcade
Retrocade
Education
Freerice
Khan Academy
Open Yale Courses
Smarthistory
Starfall