Web Link Directories

Generally Useful Sites

Google - search engine

Wolfram Alpha - computation engine

Bing - decision engine

Cuil - search engine

Pandora - music

Twitter - lots of little pieces of information from people who share like interests

Facebook - social networking, mostly for fun

LinkedIn - professional social networking

Wikipedia - help edit an encyclopedia, that our decendents will be able to read for free, forever. The real Foundation

eBay - buy and sell stuff

Amazon - buy books, or just about anything else.

Digg - vote articles you find up or down, find and read popular articles

BlogSpot - blog for free, advertisement free.

Delicious - share your bookmarks

IMDB - the best Internet site dedicated to information about movies, tv and actors

Mapquest - the original in driving directions, still popular. Yahoo and Google do it well too

MySpace - omg, there's this new site. omg it's awesome. you'll love it I swear.

Flickr - the mother brain of photo sharing

Hulu - it exists to melt your brain. Breaking news: The internet is not TV.

Scribd - the pirate bay of documents

Pandora - auto-tailored web radio

City Data - detailed inforamtion about any US city.

PeopleBrowsr - it's for when you have already admitted to yourself that you are a social networking junkie, and you just want to inject it intravenenously now.

Ping.fm - update all your social networks at once. it's for when you really just want the whole world to know what you think about everything.

YouTube

Vimeo

Ning

In The News

Forget JavaFX PulpCore Is The Real Java RIA

Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo Close to Search Ad Deal

Man Charged 23 Quadrillion Dollars

Microsoft's Free Software Shift Seen As Sound Defense

Google - the World's Most Successful Failure?

Is Microsoft's Silverlight Evil?

Are there any Undocumented Features in Silverlight?

U.S. Dept. of Defense Issues Blanket Purchase Agreement for Adobe Server Products--Five-Year Enterprise Software Initiative Contract Awarded Through Carahsoft

Why Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom Really is Something New - Jon Galloway

What is Flash's answer to Deep Zoom! - Ultrashock Forums

Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland'- new photos released

Tools Are Body Parts to Brain Scientific American Podcast

Webcasts

FLOSS Weekly 52: Casey Reas and Ben Fry on Processing.org

Classic Articles

Yes, But What Have You *Done*?

Top 80 Internet Exchange Points

As We May Think - Vannevar Bush 1945

Cathedral and the Bazaar - by Eric S. Raymond

Classic Computer Science

Conway's Game of Life

Tower's of Hanoi

Big Industry Players

Microsoft - Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, .NET, XBOX 360, Games, Chat, Email, Search, Virtualization, SharePoint and much more

Adobe - Acrobat, PDF, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, AfterEffects, and more

Google - Search, News, Maps, Earth, Desktop Search, Groups, Picasa, Email, YouTube, Chat, Android

Oracle / Sun Microsystems - Oracle plus Solaris, Java, NetBeans and MySQL

IBM - Eclipse and a lot more

Apple - Safari, QuickTime, iPod, iTunes, iPhone and more

Yahoo - Directory, Email, Groups, Chat, News, Search, Desktop Search and more

Cisco - Routers, Network, Wireless, Communications

EMC - Storage, VMWare Virtualization, Mozy Online Backup

Intel - computer chip maker

Amazon - not just a website, check out the Kindle

Dell - PC maker

eBay - massive popular multi-purpose website = industry leader

Big Customers

Costco

Walmart

U.S. Government, Agency List A to Z

Coca-Cola

McDonalds

Fortune 500

List of International Organizations

Valuable Learning Resources

O'Reilly Safari Books Online - membership at $10/month is a spectacular deal

Computer.org - a great online resource for general computing, membership is worth the money

Pluralsight - Microsoft .NET training by the industry experts. Flexible solutions to fit every schedule and budget.

AppDev - Specializing in C# .net training, asp.net training, vb.net training and visual basic .net training.

JumpstartTV - video tutorials

SQL Server Central - Microsoft SQL Server tutorials, training & forum.

SourceForge - find and develop open source software

.NET Community

MSDN - Microsoft Developer Network

Channel 9 - Microsoft sponsored site for the development community, often featuring video of Microsoft employees

Stackoverflow - great ASP.NET website put together by Jeff Atwood that is used by the community as a massive question/answer bank.

Scott Hanselman's Blog - Computer Zen. Scott is the MAN.

ScottGu's Blog - he's a VP at Microsoft and that means he is quite good.

Tim Heuer's Blog - Method ~ of ~ failed. Silverlight 3.

Phil Haack's Blog - You've been haacked and you like it.

Jesse Liberty's Blog - Silverlight Geek

Codeguru blog - CodeGuru is about code. CodeGuru is about Gurus. CodeGuru is about so much more!

C# Corner - where C# and .NET developers can meet and exchange their ideas, code and expertise on the site through discussion forums or submissions.

CodeProject - an excellent .NET code article site.

.NET Rocks - a weekly audio show for .NET developers out of New London, CT

DotNetKicks - .NET links, community driven

LIDNUG - Formerly the "C# Professionals Group", now the official INETA .NET User Group!

Bean Software - a little gem of a site.

Tips and Tricks

The Art of Efficiency - 10 Ways to Organise Your Life - Windows Live

CSS Speech Bubbles

Add Links to the Favorite Links Panel in Vista

Walter Zorn's awesome Javascript tricks

A Deep Zoom Blog Synchronizing Images with the Deep Zoom content

CodeProject- Weak Events in C#. Free source code and programming help

Hidden Features of C# - Stack Overflow

Kirk Evans Blog - Creating a Silverlight Carousel and Gel Buttons Through Live Search

Silverlight 3.0 - 3D Flip Action using Plane Projection

ReorderList Sample

Querying Multidimensional Data (Analysis Services - Multidimensional Data)

How To Embed a .avi or .mpeg file on a web page

Super-fast screen scraping techniques - Stack Overflow

Going Controller-less in MVC- The Way Fowler Meant It To Be - Chad Myers' Blog -

A quick look at Silverlight 3- Projections - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

How to Create a New Silverlight Project

How to connect Microsoft SQL Server using JDBC

.NET Related News and Articles

Silverlight 4 Wishlist - the list is kind of long, many of these things are going to be challenging

A Dullard's Guide Switching from Silverlight 3 Tools to Silverlight 2 Tools

Cool Tools

TextPad - fast, lightweight, powerful text editor

TreePad - great outlining and eBook creation software that I swear by

Evernote - because who ever wants to lose their notes?!

.NET Reflector - because it is always helpful to take a peek at the source

.NET Reflector Add-Ins - Release- Reflector 5.0 Add-Ins

Fiddler - HTTP Debugging Proxy

FireBug - Firefox plugin that provides introspection for how Firefox is rendering pages

Silverlight Spy

DOTNETNUKE - a development framework that enables businesses to quickly build and deploy feature-rich, interactive websites and applications in Microsoft .NET environments. Through an intuitive, menu-driven interface, even non-technical users can use DotNetNuke to easily create new sites or extend the functionality and features of existing web applications.

telligent Community Server - signup, forums, wiki, profiles, out of the box modern bulletin board system and more, using SQL and C#. Enterprise applications that help you listen to, engage, and measure interaction with customers, partners, and employees. XRM, where X can be anything, not just customers.

POV-Ray Download

Blender - the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program, for X Windows systems.

DAZ 3D - Free 3D Software and 3D Model Providers

LINQPad - Enable Autocompletion

Mindjet Brainstorming, Free Form Thinking, and Visual Aid Mind Mapping Software Program

CoolIris.com - 3D Full Screen Browsing - ZePy

DeepEarth - Home

Flash Earth ...satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash

Google Earth - originally a product from Keyhole, an Intelligence community contractor

Radius Around a Point on a Map

Fichey - digital microfiche