Stats by Alexa:

• Yahoo!
  • News
  • Search
  • Maps
  • Music - Free streaming music and videos complete with customized "stations" based on each persons ratings.
• Google
  • Maps
  • News
• Comics
  • Penny Arcade
  • Strong Bad's Email
  • Sinfest
  • goats : the comic strip - "Tasty Yet Morally Ambiguous"
  • Mac Hall
  • Ctrl-Alt-Del
  • PvP Online
  • Count Your Sheep
  • Something Positive
• Music
  • Children of Acid - Official fansite of the Lords Of Acid.
  • Condition - A local Sacramento band. "your music sounds like someone machine-gunning a seal, except untight & out of tune."
  • Upcoming.org - "is a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you're attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog."
• Instant Messengers
  • Trillian - AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, and Yahoo all in one single handy client for Windows.
  • GAIM - is an alternative "open source" clone of AIM. "Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr."
• Other "web log" type sites:
  • DeadJournal
  • LiveJournal
  • Blurty
  • Diary-X
  • Xanga
  • Yafro Moblog - "mobile phone blog" though you can upload any picture, have groups, friends, forums, etc.
• Spam
  • Spamhaus - "Spamhaus tracks the Internet's worst Spammers, known Spam Gangs .."
  • SpamAssassin - Wonderful anti-spam software for your Unix and Linux servers.
• eMail (Free and Not Free)
  • Google Gmail - Free 1GB, POP3 and web access; Currently requires an invite to join - feel free to ask for an invite as I have 50 of them at the moment.
  • Yahoo
  • Hotmail
• Misc.:
  • Dictionary.com - Because knowing the proper spelling and meaning of words is important.
  • Depressed.net - Oddly, it isn't about depression...
  • Amazon.com - Tons of stuff for you to buy!
  • Mozilla - is a pretty good standards-compliant browser. If your machine is on the slow side, then you might want to try out their Mozilla Firebird. They also have Mozilla Thunderbird which is an email/news client. Mozilla is both a browser and email/news client rolled into one package.
  • Ed's Tiny URL Link Dump - It's like TinyURL but a bit more. Sort of.
• Standards we use:
  • The Atom Syndication Format
  • Tag URI - "The tag algorithm lets people mint (create) identifiers that no one else using the same algorithm could ever mint. It is simple enough to do in your head, and the resulting identifiers can be easy to read, write, and remember. The identifiers conform to the URI (URL) Syntax."
  • Yahoo's Frequently Asked Questions for People who Publish in RSS
  • MSN's RSS: Getting Started - and specificly, Guidelines for Publishers.