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Alibaba.com
Alibaba.com is the world's largest
online
business-to-business
trading platform. Founded in 1999 by Ma Yun (Jack Ma), Alibaba.com as of 31 March 2009 had more
than 40 million registered users and 5 million virtual storefronts, and reaches
buyers and sellers in more than 240
countries
and territories.
http://www.alibaba.com/
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Business.com
Business.com is an
Internet
search engine
and web directory
targeted primarily to an executive and corporate management audience. The company of the same name
also operates a pay per click
advertising
network focused on the business-to-business market.
http://www.business.com/
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DeviantArt
DeviantArt is a
Worldwide American
online community
with worldwide appeal showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August
7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. DeviantArt,
Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United
States. As of October 2009 the site consists of over 11 million members, over
100 million submissions, and receives around 100,000 submissions per day. The
domain deviantart.com attracted at least 36 million
visitors
annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.
http://www.deviantart.com/
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Digg
Digg is a social
news
website
made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the
Internet,
by submitting links and stories, and voting and
commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the
site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many
stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the
front page. Digg's popularity has prompted the creation of other
social networking
sites
with story submission and voting systems.
http://www.digg.com/
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Download.com
Download.com is an Internet download
directory
website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET. Download.com offers content in
four major categories: Software (including Windows, Mac, and mobile),
Music,
Games, and
Videos,
offered for download via FTP from Download.com's servers or third-party servers. Videos are
streams (at present) and music was all free MP3 downloads, or occasionally
rights-managed WMAs or streams until it was replaced with last.fm.
http://www.download.com/
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eHow
eHow is an online knowledge resource with more than 337,000 articles and videos
offering step-by-step instructions on "how to do just about
everything".
eHow content
is created by both professional
experts
and amateur members and covers a wide variety of topics organized into a hierarchy of categories.
http://www.ehow.com/
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Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie
Database (IMDb) is an online database of
information
related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and
most recently, fictional characters featured in visual
entertainment
media.
http://www.imdb.com/
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Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as Dmoz (from directory.mozilla.org,
its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of
World Wide Web
links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a
community of volunteer editors. ODP uses a hierarchical ontology scheme for
organizing
site listings.
Listings
on a similar topic are grouped into categories, which can then include smaller categories.
http://www.dmoz.org/
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project
supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of
the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative
websites,
from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and
encyclopedia.
Wikipedia's 14 million articles (3.1 million in English) have been written collaboratively by
volunteers
around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by
anyone with access to the site.
http://www.wikipedia.org/
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YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.
The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video
technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including
movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as
video blogging
and short original videos.
http://www.youtube.com/
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