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Best of 2005: Photos from Time, wildlife photos, indie bands, e-commerce sites, hardware, Web 2.0 software

9:32 AM Fri, Dec 16, 2005 |
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The winners of National Wildlife magazine's 35th annual photography competition. Top prize:

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Time magazine's Photos of the Year 2005 brilliantly captures mostly disasters. katrina leads. Flash slideshow.

OtherMusic.com Year End Recap: favorite new albums and reissues released in 2005.
Best indie bands of 2005: Travelers Diagram posts a colorfully annotated list, and points to others' lists on its del.icio.us bookmarks page.

The 25 Best E-Commerce Sites
from Time Digital.

The 100 Best Products of 2005: At PC World, so lots of hardware. The Firefox browser takes the top slot.

Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005
Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
If email and AOL were Web 1.0, Web 2.0 involves participation and software as a service on the Web, not a program on your desktop.

This search of public bookmarking site del.icio.us for pages tagged "cookies" tells it all -- lots of people are publicly bookmarking cookie recipes and more with the same keyword, and you can find them. If you were simply to search the word cookies, rather than pages about coolies, you'd see more links about browser tracking cookies. And, unlike Google, which displays results of uncertain freshness based on page rank, del.icio.us shows "newest on top."

There's even a third-party site that does advanced searches with muliple terms.

You can use these links as a launchpad to explore some of the newer sites that aggregate everyone choice of a keeper.

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