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BestWebGallery is a cleanly designed site that scours the web for the best designed CSS and Flash sites and posts them on their homepage. Designers are also welcome to submit their own projects if they’d like them to be considered for inclusion on the page. Perhaps the nicest thing about this site is the way that simply hovering the mouse over the thumbnails causes them to enlarge in size and demonstrate a larger section of the page. The site does not appear to rank sites based on user opinions however ample space is provided for commenting on each of the sites. There is a good selection...  read more
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StyleVault is a site dedicated to displaying the best-designed websites and blogs as determined by user voting and submissions. Designers can submit their websites for the community’s consideration and they can go to StyleVault when they are in need of a bit of inspiration or want to see what the latest trends in design are. Anyone can go to the site, sign up and then choose to submit their projects or to vote on their favorite designs. The more votes a page receives, the higher up it will appear on the scrolling list of screenshots. Sites are currently categorized into three basic sub-s... read more
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LifeHaps.com is a site that allows users to keep track of and share the dates and details of major events in their lives. Users may search for their friends to either catch up on those friends’ updates or to send their own event information. Life events that can be posted and shared include births, graduations, and weddings. The site prides itself on its simplicity. Applied features of this tool are either basic, including no minimal time commitment, and the ability to message about private events, or premium, which allows users to customize and personalize their consecutive life events ... read more
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Tourism Tome is a new site that allows you to upload photos of your favorite places, share hotel and temporary rental information, and in general, get to know places without leaving the comfort of your own home. The site is new so it is currently limited in user content but the framework will allow people to upload photos by continent and country and at the same time share local hotel information. Photo galleries are nicely displayed by country and offer a great way of getting to know a place before you visit. If nothing else, Tourism To Me is a good site for uploading your recent travel ph... read more
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CookEatShare is one of the latest in the crowd of recipe sharing sites to storm the web. Like its cohorts, Epicurious, and AllRecipes.com, users register and share their favorite meals and recipes. CookEatShare, as the name suggests, takes more of a social netoworking angle to its site than the others. Users set up profiles, post pics, and can easily communicate with other members worldwide. CookEatShare is also quite feature rich in comparison to the competition. Recipes are easily searchable by keyword, category, holiday/occasion, cooking method, highest rated and so on and so forth. There a... read more
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TheSmartPro is a non-profit site aimed at compiling extensive employee-experience information about companies and placing it in an easy to use search engine. Employees past and present can either add their company if it isn’t already in the database, or add their input to a previously existing entry. Basic information like the location and website of the business are included along with categories for compensation, benefits, work place, growth opportunities, and miscellaneous. Each of the categories can be ranked as either “excellent”, “good”, “average” or “bad” and ample ... read more
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Improving Your World links non-profit organizations with the individual people who care, and the corporate sponsors who have the funding to support them. Users log on to the site and vote for the charitable cause which they support. With each vote, the corporate sponsors take note, and donate funds to that corresponding organization. Voting takes place over one month of time. Once the monthly voting has come to a close, the organization with the most votes receives 100% of the advertising dollars from the Improving Your World post-vote page. Causes that can be supported are varied, rangin... read more
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Mookz is a site that allows anyone to create competitions which can be voted upon by others to determine a winner. Basically, you can make any type of competition which could be anything from best high school photo to best YouTube Video. Once you’ve made the competition, others can submit their entries, vote and even share on Facebook. If your friend has a particularly funny or interesting photo, you can also nominate that for an award as well. Current competitions on the site include: Extreme Animals, Worst Music Album Cover and the George Bush Award. Really, the site allows you to be ... read more
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When planning a wedding, there are a huge number of vendors to choose from and it can be difficult to know who to trust and who not to. Project Wedding was developed to help people find the best vendors by encouraging users to write about the good and the bad experiences that they’ve had with particular vendors. Basically, Project Wedding is a site where people can talk about weddings and share advice. The site includes a local vendor listing organized by rating and price range along with an organized index of wedding vendor reviews from across the web. So if you want to make sure that y... read more
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BridalHood is a local wedding vendor review and discussion forum. This site allows brides to find, review, and share information and opinions about wedding professionals in their area. On this site, users will find information and reviews on over 20,000 vendors. Through the search feature, users can perform and advanced search for price, location, and specific attributes, such as language spoken, capacity, and professional associations of various types of listed wedding vendors. Users are able to talk with other brides, and share their experiences and advice with other ladies. They may al... read more
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Bookmemark.com is a social and personal bookmarking tool. This site allows users to add and store their own personal bookmarks, including their existing bookmarks saved on their Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Users can also save their bookmarks and public or private. Users may create groups with whom they can share their bookmarks. Bookmarks can also be mailed to friends with one simple click. Other bookmarks can be reviewed and rated. The most viewed links eventually can earn status on the Most Popular list. Users can also interact with one another by using the Scribble Zone t... read more
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Chefs, foodies, and wannabe cooks, take a peek at MyGourmetVideos.com. This video sharing site gives recipe details on all kinds of gourmet foods. Through member-uploaded audio podcasts and videos, users can learn about various types of gourmet foods, and well as the steps to morph them into delicious meals. Site visitors can search for a certain recipe or ingredient, or browse through the categories, which discuss foods such as Cajun cuisine and gourmet coffee. Users can also connect with each other through the People and Groups functions, which allow individuals or groups to create their... read more
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