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Top Aggregator Website: www.popurl.com

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Thursday, June 24th, 2010

www.popurls.com is classified as a an aggregator website. www.popurls.com gathers under one web page [aggregates] up-to-the minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet. It allows at a quick glance on what’s happening on the web-like a news reader.

Below are some the websites listed.

To open website links in a New Tab->: Point cursor over link—>Right Click on Link—>Select "Open in a New Tab" option.
For a complete full size table click Top Aggregator Website: www.popurl.com

Web Page Name	Web Page Address [URL]
boingboing	http://www.boingboing.net/
breitbart	http://breitbart.com/
clipmarks	http://www.clipmarks.com/
delicious.com	http://delicious.com
digg	http://digg.com
dzone	http://www.dzone.com/
fark	http://www.fark.com/
gawker	http://gawker.com/
google news	http://news.google.com/
huffingtonpost	http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
lastfm	http://last.fm/
lifehacker	http://lifehacker.com/
metafilter	http://www.metafilter.com/
mixx	http://mixx.com/
neatorama	http://neatorama.com/
newsvine	http://www.newsvine.com/
nytimes	http://www.nytimes.com/
reddit	http://reddit.com/
slashdot	http://slashdot.org/
Wired News	http://www.wired.com/
yahoo-buzz	http://buzz.yahoo.com/

What is an Aggregator Website?

A website or software program that gathers (aggregates) and displays web content such as news headlines, blogs, and podcasts from multiple websites to a single location. It allows searches by keyword and provides summaries for browsing. It uses RSS or other types of feeds to find the content, and allows subscribing to feeds, allowing new content to be automatically downloaded when it is available. Also known as a feed reader. [from From http: //www.podcastfaq.com/glossary/blogging-and-podcasting-terms/

Another News Aggregator is http://alltop.com. All the top headlines from popular topics around the web.

ENJOY!

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Categories : General Interest Sites

Double-Click Ad Planner by Google [Top Sites]

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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

THIS SITE OFFERS GREAT LIST[S] OF WEBSITES!

It gives an up-to-date list of THE TOP 1000 WEBSITES [www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000] [see option #1].
It can list THE MOST POPULAR WEBSITES BY CATEGORY [www.google.com/adplanner] [see option #2].
It can do some other grouping features- for you to discover!

Double-Click Ad Planner by Google is a free media planning tool that helps identify websites to be used for specific target markets. It is used to help make better-informed advertising decisions.

OPTION #1 [THE TOP 1000 WEBSITES]
The Ad Planner 1000 list [www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000] is a list of the top 1,000 sites on the web. It is published every month. This list details the number of unique visitors, page views and reach for each site for the top 1,000 sites.

It’s a great way to quickly reference the most popular sites on the web. Each column can be sorted by clicking on the column header name.

OPTION #2 [THE MOST POPULAR WEBSITES BY CATEGORY]

The Ad Planner can categorize the Top 1000 websites ranked by Google [www.google.com/adplanner].

Below are steps need to be taken [note: these steps will change as the website changes]

Create a Google Account www.google.com/adplanner
Sign-in
Click List Tab
Click on Ad Planner Top 1000 Sites [this will give Top 1000 sites]
Click on Category
Select Category[s] desired [to list top sites in selected categories from Top 1000 site]

CLICK ON IMAGE TO MAKE LARGER

DEFINITION OF TABLE COLUMNS

Rank
The website ranking.

Category
General description of website’s theme. Site.

[UV] Unique visitors [users]
The estimated, unduplicated number of people who visit a site over a specific month. With the unique visitor column [metric], you can get an idea of how popular a website is.

Reach
The estimated percent of total internet users (over a specific month) within the defined criteria selected. This is really used for advertisers that select specific a criteria. For example, a 32% score means 32% of internet users in the country selected met the chosen criteria.

[PV] Page views
The estimated number of times website pages have been accessed by users across the internet (over a specific month). With the Page View column [metric], you can get an idea of how popular a website is.

ENJOY!

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SEOMOZ TOP 500 Sites

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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

The SEOmoz Top Sites: The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet http://www.seomoz.org/top500 is a reliable and up-to-date list. It is a terrific resource.

SEOmoz is the most popular provider of SEO [search engine optimization] software.

Unfortunately, no descriptions are put next to the domains.

In future articles, we will pull out what we feel are useful practical websites as a lot of them are technical and not for mainstream interests.

Take a look and ENJOY!

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Search Engine Sites

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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

In my research, I discovered that there is so much to share with you that I will break down this information into various posts. This is the first post. PURPOSE

To improve your skills in finding information on the Internet.
To make you internet experience more fulfilling.
To broaden your skills by bringing more options [search engines] to you.

POINTS

Search engines are the basic tools to help find information on the Internet.
Different search engines give different results; some deliver different formats [audio, video, graphics etc..]; some are specialize in certain areas [general, medicine, people etc..]
There are an enormous number of search engines. Seniors-Online researched the best search engine listings to encourage you to go beyond your normal search engine choices.
The Top 4 Search Engines have over 96% of all the traffic [Google, Yahoo, Bink and Ask].
Seniors-Online has gathered an initial listing of suggested Search Engine Sites and put them in a table found in the sidebar section WEBSITES LISTED IN TABLES or click here-> http://www.seniors-online.ca/test/websites-listed-in-tables/search-engine-site-table/

TOP 13 SEARCH ENGINE LISTS last updated April 15, 2010 [from table http://www.seniors-online.ca/test/websites-listed-in-tables/search-engine-site-table/ To open website links in the table below in a New Tab: Point cursor over link--->Right Click on LInk--->Select Open in a New Tab.

Rank	Web Page Description	Web Page Address [URL]Address
1	Pandia Powersearch: all-in-one list of search engines and directories	http://www.pandia.com/powersearch/
2	The Search Engine List	http://thesearchenginelist.com/
3	About.com: A Comprehensive List of Search Engines You Can Use	http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/search-engine-list.htm
4	Phil Bradely: List of Major Websites by Category	http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
5	Phi Bradely: Home Page for Search Engine Website	http://www.philb.com/
6	About.com: Top Ten Search Engines	http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/top-ten-search-engines.htm
7	OEDB.org: Research Beyond Google	http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google
8	Wikipedia: Search Engine List	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#External_links
9	Refdesk.com: Reference_ Facts_News Searches	http://refdesk.com/
10	Search Engine Watch [SEW]- Major Categories	http://searchenginewatch.com/links/
11	Phil Bradely: Web search engines 150+ listed	http://www.philb.com/webse.htm
12	Noodletools: Best Search for Your Information Need	http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
13	About.com: Master List from A-Z for Search Engines and Directories A to	http://websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/blsearchenginesatoz.htm

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100 Great American Speeches

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Thursday, April 8th, 2010

THE TOP 100 SPEECHES is list full 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, Listen to the speeches or read the text transcriptions. Check out American Rhetoric’s database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and more!

Rank	Speaker	Title/Text
1	Martin Luther King, Jr.	I Have A Dream
2	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Inaugural Address
3	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	First Inaugural Address
4	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
5	Barbara Charline Jordan	1976 DNC Keynote Address
6	Richard Milhous Nixon	"Checkers"
7	Malcolm X	"The Ballot or the Bullet"
8	Ronald Wilson Reagan	Shuttle ”Challenger” Disaster Address
9	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Houston Ministerial Association Speech
10	Lyndon Baines Johnson	"We Shall Overcome"
11	Mario Matthew Cuomo	1984 DNC Keynote Address
12	Jesse Louis Jackson	1984 DNC Address
13	Barbara Charline Jordan	Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
14	(General) Douglas MacArthur	Farewell Address to Congress
15	Martin Luther King, Jr.	"I’ve Been to the Mountaintop"
16	Theodore Roosevelt	"The Man with the Muck-rake"
17	Robert Francis Kennedy	Remarks on the Assassination of MLK
18	Dwight David Eisenhower	Farewell Address
19	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	War Message
20	(General) Douglas MacArthur	"Duty, Honor, Country"
21	Richard Milhous Nixon	"The Great Silent Majority"
22	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	"Ich bin ein Berliner"
23	Clarence Seward Darrow	"Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"
24	Russell H. Conwell	"Acres of Diamonds"
25	Ronald Wilson Reagan	"A Time for Choosing"
26	Huey Pierce Long	"Every Man a King"
27	Anna Howard Shaw	"The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"
28	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	"The Arsenal of Democracy"
29	Ronald Wilson Reagan	"The Evil Empire"
30	Ronald Wilson Reagan	First Inaugural Address
31	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	First Fireside Chat
32	Harry S. Truman	"The Truman Doctrine"
33	William Cuthbert Faulkner	Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
34	Eugene Victor Debs	1918 Statement to the Court
35	Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton	"Women’s Rights are Human Rights"
36	Dwight David Eisenhower	"Atoms for Peace"
37	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	American University Commencement Address
38	Dorothy Ann Willis Richards	1988 DNC Keynote Address
39	Richard Milhous Nixon	Resignation Speech
40	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	"The Fourteen Points"
41	Margaret Chase Smith	"Declaration of Conscience"
42	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	"The Four Freedoms"
43	Martin Luther King, Jr.	"A Time to Break Silence"
44	Mary Church Terrell	"What it Means to be Colored in the…U.S."
45	William Jennings Bryan	"Against Imperialism"
46	Margaret Higgins Sanger	"The Morality of Birth Control"
47	Barbara Pierce Bush	1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address
48	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Civil Rights Address
49	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Cuban Missile Crisis Address
50	Spiro Theodore Agnew	"Television News Coverage"
51	Jesse Louis Jackson	1988 DNC Address
52	Mary Fisher	"A Whisper of AIDS"
53	Lyndon Baines Johnson	"The Great Society"
54	George Catlett Marshall	"The Marshall Plan"
55	Edward Moore Kennedy	"Truth and Tolerance in America"
56	Adlai Ewing Stevenson	Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
57	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	"The Struggle for Human Rights"
58	Geraldine Anne Ferraro	Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech
59	Robert Marion La Follette	"Free Speech in Wartime"
60	Ronald Wilson Reagan	40th Anniversary of D-Day Address
61	Mario Matthew Cuomo	"Religious Belief and Public Morality"
62	Edward Moore Kennedy	"Chappaquiddick"
63	John Llewellyn Lewis	"The Rights of Labor"
64	Barry Morris Goldwater	Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
65	Stokely Carmichael	"Black Power"
66	Hubert Horatio Humphrey	1948 DNC Address
67	Emma Goldman	Address to the Jury
68	Carrie Chapman Catt	"The Crisis"
69	Newton Norman Minow	"Television and the Public Interest"
70	Edward Moore Kennedy	Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy
71	Anita Faye Hill	Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
72	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	League of Nations Final Address
73	Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig	Farewell to Baseball Address
74	Richard Milhous Nixon	Cambodian Incursion Address
75	Carrie Chapman Catt	Address to the U.S. Congress
76	Edward Moore Kennedy	1980 DNC Address
77	Lyndon Baines Johnson	On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election
78	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Commonwealth Club Address
79	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	First Inaugural Address
80	Mario Savio	"Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History"
81	Elizabeth Glaser	1992 DNC Address
82	Eugene Victor Debs	"The Issue"
83	Margaret Higgins Sanger	"Children’s Era"
84	Ursula Kroeber Le Guin	"A Left-Handed Commencement Address"
85	Crystal Eastman	"Now We Can Begin"
86	Huey Pierce Long	"Share Our Wealth"
87	Gerald Rudolph Ford	Address on Taking the Oath of Office
88	Cesar Estrada Chavez	Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast
89	Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	Statement at the Smith Act Trial
90	Jimmy Earl Carter	"A Crisis of Confidence"
91	Malcolm X	"Message to the Grassroots"
92	William Jefferson Clinton	Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address
93	Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm	"For the Equal Rights Amendment"
94	Ronald Wilson Reagan	Brandenburg Gate Address
95	Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel	"The Perils of Indifference"
96	Gerald Rudolph Ford	National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon
97	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	"For the League of Nations"
98	Lyndon Baines Johnson	"Let Us Continue"
99	Joseph N. Welch	"Have You No Sense of Decency"
100	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

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Question & Answer Sites

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

For complete full size table see seniors-online.ca/websites/question-and-answer-sites. It lists the top Question and Answer sites. Any question can be asked in these sites. Answers are given by volunteers, qualified experts or they can be on a paid basi

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