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50 Best Websites 2008
By Reshma Kumar at June 22, 2008 0 Comments
Time.com has come out with their list of the 50 Best Websites for 2008. In what can be considered a reflection of our time, Gasbuddy appears to be high on the list. Also, making the cut of their picks are Penny Arcade, Gaia Online, Kongregate, Free Rice, Petfinder, Urban Dictionary, TinyURL.com, Geni, and ProFootballTalk. If you’ve never heard of some of these sites, you are not alone. A lot of these are likely the result of huge PR pushes. Not sure I would necessarily call some of the sites on the list the ‘best’; maybe noteworthy or interesting. And it appears others are finding the same - sites such as Mobaganda, Net-a-porter, and iliketotallyloveit and are like totally bottoming out in the ratings.
Maryanne Buechner of Time once described their process to me as follows: “It really varies. We select sites that we find are interesting, entertaining, useful, informative, newsy, creative, well-designed, easy to navigate, well-written, innovative, broadly appealing or fun, or some combination of the above. Sometimes we include a website that is brand new because we think it’s worth checking out and that perhaps many people don’t yet know about it. Sometimes we include a site that has been around for a while, but that keeps getting better and better, or has been underappreciated. It just varies. It’s an entirely subjective process, and we welcome suggestions from readers.”
