导读：Business and Finance Bigstep.comwww.bigstep.comGet your business online, cheap and easy. Bloomberg.comwww.bloomberg.comIf Michael Bloomberg can afford to buy NYC, he must be doing something right. Charles Schwabwww.schwab.comTrading with top-dr

Business and Finance

Bigstep.com
www.bigstep.com
Get your business online, cheap and easy.

Bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com
If Michael Bloomberg can afford to buy NYC, he must be doing something right.

Charles Schwab
www.schwab.com
Trading with top-drawer research.

Citibank Online
www.citibankonline.com
Online banking done right.

CNBC on MSN Money
moneycentral.msn.com
Trust us, these Microsoft folks know money.

Datek Online
www.datek.com
Cheap transactions for the remaining day traders.

The Digital Daily
www.irs.gov
The IRS online?less painful than it sounds.

Dow Jones Interactive
www.djinteractive.com
The $69 subscription includes The Wall Street Journal online.

Hoover’s Online
www.hooversonline.com
The place for financial research.

The Motley Fool
www.fool.com
Contrarian investment advice.

Oracle Small Business Suite
www.oraclesmallbusiness.com
Accounting, sales-force automation, and more (formerly NetLedger).

Quicken.com
www.quicken.com
Top-flight personal finance.

salesforce.com
www.salesforce.com
Powerful tools for sales and marketing.

SmartMoney.com
www.smartmoney.com
Where smart money checks in for analysis and news.

TheStreet.com
www.thestreet.com
Irreverent reporting from Wall Street.

Computing

EarthWeb
www.earthweb.com
IT literature galore.

Elite.com
www.elite.com
Project management, time tracking, and billing.

eRoom.net
www.eroom.net
Potent collaboration tools.

Expertcity.com
www.expertcity.com
Remote-control tech support and Remote access.

ExtremeTech
www.extremetech.com
PC Magazine’s sister site pushes the nerd envelope.

Gibson Research Co.
www.grc.com
Great tools for keeping your PC private and secure.

Homestead
www.homestead.com
Simple, slick online site creation.

Hotmail
www.hotmail.com
Access your mail?and spam?anywhere.

PalmGear.com
www.palmgear.com
Thousands of downloadable Palm apps.

PC Magazine
www.pcmag.com
Humbly submitted for your approval.

Register.com
www.register.com
Domain names! Get your domain names!

Slashdot
slashdot.org
News, discussion, and flame wars for geeks.

Trend Micro
www.antivirus.com
The facts on viruses plus a free online scanner.

Vindigo
www.vindigo.com
Let your handheld take you to dinner and a movie.

WebEx
www.webex.com
Have your meetings online.

Webmonkey
www.webmonkey.com
Vocational school for Web designers.

Yahoo! Groups
groups.yahoo.com
The free discussion-group service we used to hash out this list.

Careers

Dice.com
www.dice.com
IT jobs?get ’em while they last.

Guru.com
www.guru.com
Find work?or workers?here.

HotJobs.com
www.hotjobs.com
Employment opportunities and strong privacy features.

Monster.com
www.monster.com
The grand master of employment sites.

Search, Reference, and Portals

About.com
www.about.com
The Internet for the people, by the people.

AOL
www.aol.com
The most popular beginners’ service; learn it and move on.

BBC Online
www.bbc.com
We love the Beeb?especially World Service news.

Britannica.com
www.britannica.com
Subscribe to the mother of all encyclopedias.

Encarta
encarta.msn.com
Microsoft?owns all, knows all.

FedStats
www.fedstats.gov
Stats from over 100 U.S. federal agencies.

Google
www.google.com
Can anyone dethrone the king of search?

HowStuffWorks.com
www.howstuffworks.com
The name really says it all.

iVillage.com
www.ivillage.com
Rich portal for women.

The Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
Amazing amounts of information about America and Americana.

Medscape Health for Consumers
www.medscape.com
In sickness and in health, good content.

MSN
www.msn.com
Seeks to dethrone AOL as the learn it and move on king.

Nolo.com
www.nolo.com
Second-guess your public defender: free legal advice.

Northern Light
www.northernlight.com
Search the Web and a vast special collection.

TechEncyclopedia
www.techencyclopedia.com
Where your IT staff goes for answers.

Technology Review
www.techreview.com
This MIT organ showcases cool new technology.

The U.S. House of Representatives
www.house.gov
Do you know who your rep is?

The U.S. Senate
www.senate.gov
Okay, smart guy, who are your senators?

WebMD
www.webmd.com
A great medical portal for lay people.

Webopedia
www.webopedia.com
Your technical-reference center.

The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
W’s home on the Web.

Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com
You name it, it’s in there!

Shopping

Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
The best place to read about and buy ~~books~~ nearly anything.

Andale
www.andale.com
Tools to turbocharge your auction listings.

CarsDirect.com
www.carsdirect.com
Everything but the test drive.

Cooking.com
www.cooking.com
Shopping for chefs.

DealTime.com
www.dealtime.com
Great prices from a huge network of stores.

Dell
www.dell.com
This is how all computers should be sold online.

eBay
www.ebay.com
Buy or sell just about everything (kidneys now banned).

Epinions
www.epinions.com
Peer pressure helps you make buying decisions.

EthnicGrocer.com
www.ethnicgrocer.com
When Wonder Bread and Skippy get old.

Lands’ End
www.landsend.com
The right way to take a retailer online.

PayPal
www.paypal.com
Look, Ma, no credit card!

Travel

Arthur Frommer’s BudgetTravel Online
www.frommers.com
Get there?and stay there?for less.

Expedia
www.expedia.com
Buy tickets?and check out the great tools, too.

Fodors
www.fodors.com
Learn what to do when you get there.

iExplore
www.iexplore.com
Travel, with a National Geographic spin.

Lonely Planet
www.lonelyplanet.com
Advice for the youth hostel set.

Orbitz
www.orbitz.com
Proof that cartels kick ass.

Smarter Living
www.smarterliving.com
Amazing deals help you travel smart.

Travelocity
www.travelocity.com
Check out the recommendations engine.

News and Entertainment

AvantGo Mobile Internet Service
www.avantgo.com
Tons of great reading for your PDA.

CNN
www.cnn.com
Current news?without that NYPD Blue actress.

E! Online
www.eonline.com
All the news about all the beautiful people.

ESPN
www.espn.com
They shoot, they score!

Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com
Exercise your brain cells as you build up cellulite watching celluloid.

MightyBig TV
www.mightybigtv.com
Small-screen spoilers, recaps, and gossip.
(Ed. Note: This site recently changed its name to Television Without Pity and can be found at this URL: http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/ )

The New York Times
www.nytimes.com
The Web site of record.

Salon.com
www.salon.com
Snarky, smart, and sadly, now subscription-based e-zine.

Shutterfly
www.shutterfly.com
Your virtual darkroom and printshop.

Slate
slate.msn.com
Microsoft puts its tentacles into journalism, with impressive results.

Television Food Network
www.foodtv.com
Online home of the Iron Chef, and more.

Lifestyle and Fun

Citysearch
www.citysearch.com
The Web is good at being global; here it’s local as well.

Discovery Kids
kids.discovery.com
From animals to yucky stuff, fun science for kids.

Disney
www.disney.com
Master marketeers capitalize on the classic cartoons.

eHow
www.ehow.com
From tying shoelaces to telling whether sushi is fresh.

Embark
www.embark.com
Research schools and loans.

Epicurious Food
www.epicurious.com
Eat, drink, and learn which fork to use first.