I wanted to share with you 3 of the best web sites I’ve seen in 2009. It takes a lot to impress me, I’ve been working online for 15 years now. I visit new web sites every day, and it’s rare that I see something that is what I call a “game changer”. There are so many web sites that do so many things online now – it takes something really revolutionary to actually become “viral”, at which point it usually spreads like wildfire. I think in order to suceed moving forward, a web site would have to actually provide something for visitors that they couldn’t get anywhere else. I think all 3 of these web sites do that.
Check out fonolo.com. How many times have you put off calling the cable company, the gas company, the electric company, your credit card company, or some behemoth like gateway, microsoft, or dell simply because you didn’t want to have to go through the “phone system hell”, and you knew you’d be on the phone for at least an hour on hold? Enter Fonolo. Go to the web site, enter the company name, and where you want to connect in their “phone tree”. Enter your phone number. Fonolo will call the company and get connected to that part of their phone system, and then CALL YOU and you can continue the conversation from there! Hells Yea!
Aardvark is a cool service that helps you get answers. You probably think – WTF, there’s alread Yahoo Answers!? No dude, this is REAL TIME! I have to say I rarely use the old IM client, ‘cept for when I have to communicate with someone right away. However, with Aardvark – you just ask a question, and once you have an account seutp they find you an answer like in under a minute. You don’t have to worry about old creepy dudes having your IM info too, because you just accept “aardvark” as a friend, and it relays all the IM’s through it’s handle and everything is anonymous! I asked a WordPress question earlier today and got an answer in 30 seconds. Hells double yea!
Supercook is the s**t. I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for a site like this? I mean seriously – I love to cook, I love to eat, and not only do I avidly find recipes online, but I publish them online to (on another site). Sometimes I search for hours to find what I want, and new stuff to make. Supercook is the bomb, because you just enter the ingredients you have on hand – and it spits out what you can make with it! I type in beer, hamburger, and onions – and voila – I got a recipe! w00t!
What were your favorite web sites for 2009?
