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Web Awesomeness

I've compiled a list of web sites and services that I use frequently, and feel are worth sharing. This list is by no means complete, or representative of the best of the web, and I'll gladly take suggestions for more, even for replacements.

A lot of these are legacy web services, but I use them because I been using them for a while and newer (and sometimes better) products haven't compelled me to switch.

[Blogs / Information]
ArsTechnica - Tech Blog
Technorati.com - Blog search engine
Wired - Tech News / Tech Culture / Blogs
Lifehacker.com - Tech Culture in life: tips for making life easier, more fun, better...
Wikipedia - Crowdsourced, News, Information Reference
Weather.com - obvious
RottenTomatoes.com - Movie review aggregator
IMDB.com - Movie information database
Yahoo! Movies - Showtime Information
Yelp - Restaurant / Event Reviews
Kayak.com - Travel / flight pricing search
Hotwire.com - Hotel searches

[Social Media and Information]
Pandora - Streaming Relational Music
Last.fm - Streaming Relational Music
Youtube - Video
LiveJournal - Blogging/Social Networking
Facebook - Social Networking / Social Search
LinkedIn - Professional Social Networking
Twitter - Social Updates
Live Photos (photos.live.com) - Photo upload, archive and sharing
DeviantArt - Community Art, hosting, discussion, commerce
Digg.com - Social Media Aggregator
OCRemix - User generated game music remixes
FourSquare - Location-based Social Networking

[Services and Tools/Utilities]
Evernote - Notebook/Sync
Google Notebook - Notebook/Sync
Live Mesh - Sync / Remote Desktop
Meebo - Online IM
Google Maps- Mapping / Bus Routes
Google Docs - Lightweight doc editing/sharing
Google Reader - RSS/Atom
Google.com - Generic Web Search
Bing - Purposeful Information Search
Gmail.com - Mail / Chat / Lightweight video chat
Live Messenger - Chat / IM / Games
Skydrive - Cloud Storage, Sharing
Mint.com - Finance management
Skype - Net-to-Phone Communication / Video chat
WordPress.org - Self-hosted blogging CMS
Windows Live Writer - Blog management client

[Entertainment]
Xbox Live - Gaming / Entertainment
Yahoo Games - online casual/social gaming, especially wordgames
Netflix - Streaming Media Entertainment
Kotaku - Gaming community culture, news, tips, reviews
Hulu.com - Streaming video / movies / TV
Gamespot.com - Game news, reviews
Gametrailers.com - Gaming videos for viewing. HD quality!

[Tech Reviews Commerce]
Cnet - Tech Reviews / News
Engadget / Gizmodo - Tech news, rumors, random crap
Ebay/Half.com - Buying/Selling stuff, especially books and games
Monoprice.com - Can't be beat for cables (HDMI, optical, DVI...)
Amazon.com - Pricing / Customer Reviews / Recommendations
Pricewatch.com - Prices for tech hardware
ThinkGeek.com - Cool nerd culture stuff

[Yet to try, but heard good things about]
Steam
DropBox
Postabon