There are hundreds of millions of websites. Virtually anything you could dream up exists somewhere on the Internet. With so many options, you’re bound to overlook a few. Here are five of the coolest websites you may have missed.
For the storyteller: Storify
With Storify you can collect text, photos and videos from a variety of social media sites and make them into a customized story. Whether you want to organize a series of tweets on a hot topic or make an online scrapbook for a personal event, Storify helps you tell your story.
For the art-enthusiast: deviantART
Art can be intimidating – especially if you neither make nor study it. But deviantART makes it really accessible. It’s an online community with more than 13 million members that lets you buy or sell art online. It includes everything from classic photography to digital art.
For the habitual internet-surfer: StumbleUpon
So you’re bored at work (Don’t worry. I won’t tell your boss.) and you feel like you’ve already seen everything worth Googling. You haven’t. StumbleUpon has more and it does the searching for you. You simply check boxes of things that interest you and the site sends you to a random webpage that fits one of those interests. You can give each page a thumbs up or thumbs down and it adjusts the search accordingly.
For the cell phone-addict: Phonezoo
Have you ever heard a song and thought “That would make a great ringtone” only to find the ringtone doesn’t exist? Or you’ve found a ringtone of a song you love, but it’s not the part of the song you wanted? Enter Phonezoo. You can upload a song and choose the exact clip you want then have it instantly sent to your phone.
For the music-lover: Grooveshark
“Dear Pandora, I hate Nickleback. Please stop playing their unforgivably terrible “songs” on otherwise awesome stations. Regards, Ashley.”
No matter how many times I tweet that message to Pandora, Nickleback inevitably ends up playing. With Pandora you have to take the bad with the good. I don’t love that, so I started using Grooveshark. It’s on-demand-style music, so it only plays songs you choose. It’s more work because you have to search for them, but at least there’s no risk of Nickleback.
