Soda - Keeping Curious

The Guardian site has published an article by the author John Naughton about the top 15 websites that have changed the world in the last 15 years of the internet.

1. eBay.com
2. wikipedia.com
3. napster.com
4. youtube.com
5. blogger.com
6. friendsreunited.com
7. drudgereport.com
8. myspace.com
9. amazon.com
10. slashdot.org
11. salon.com
12. craigslist.org
13. google.com
14. yahoo.com
15. easyjet.com

Personally, at the moment I am pretty interested in Google’s personalised homepage. I can search content to add to the page and then organise it the way I want. My favourite aspect is that I can add all of the blogs that I read and instantly see when they are updated via my homepage. I can also see up to date weather and news information and my GMail account. I only started using the page recently so I am sure I will find many more uses for it in the future. If you can see the orange RSS button anywhere on a blog page, try clicking and you too can easily add your favourite blogs to your Google homepage!

One question though, in the personalised homepage address www.google.com/ig, what does the ig stand for?!

EDIT: Reading through the comments on this article has highlighted one glaring omission form the top 15 list. Hotmail. In the earlier days of the internet, HoTMaiL (as it was sometimes written at the time) brought email to the masses, allowing those without the opportunity to use Outlook to access email in any location. Since a large part of the internet is about communication I am surprised Hotmail was missed out.