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trendwatching.com is an independent and opinionated trend firm, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. For the latest and greatest, we rely on our network of 8,000+ spotters in more than 70 countries worldwide.

http://www.trendwatching.com/

So many great new web sites are cropping up all over the place! From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today! What makes a Web 2.0 Site? Really Web 2.0 is the second coming of World Wide Web. New and improved sites that make the web their platform, provide users a way of interacting with each other, and organize and categorize their content are perfect examples of Web 2.0. Below is a list of web sites that are the best of the best! If you would like to see some added to the list, please comment below!

Other Great Real World Lists

• The Complete List of Visual Studio Add-Ins and Tools
• The Complete List of Ajax Tools
• The Complete List of CSS Tools
• The Complete List of Great Free TV Web Sites on the Internet

http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2006/10/best_of_the_bes.html

For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell, there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward.

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A company paper* Google published internally earlier this year and which I got hold of outlined some of Google’s big goals and directions for 2006. The list included several items, for example:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-26-n80.html

The internet’s first and only search tool to feature tabbed results.

http://twerq.com/

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a “progressive fork” of Wikipedia. But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects. We will avoid calling it an “encyclopedia,” because there will probably always be articles in the resource that have not been vouched for in any sense.

http://www.citizendium.org/

Create an Animated Gif from Your Flickr photos

http://gickr.com/

http://www.pdfpad.com/

http://userscripts.org/

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

http://www.getpaint.net

pcNames Domain Search is a free site dedicated to developing the most advanced tools for finding domains. All tools now include available, deleted, expired, and pre-release domain names.

http://www.pcnames.com/

DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.

http://www.dvdshrink.org/

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look inside the image, not only at the text around it.

Use Riya to:

• Find similar faces and objects on many images across the web.
• Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.

Riya also has a personal search service that does face and text recognition in your photos. You can use our face and text recognition technology to:

• Train the system to recognize the main characters in the story of your life.
• Share photos with friends and family.

http://www.riya.com/

Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php

yahoo´s design patterns

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/