Sites
software & technology
- Hacker News
- High Scalability - great learning resource for building scalable websites.
- InfoQ - “tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community”
- MIT Technology Review - published by MIT, covers the latest in new technology and science.
- Programmable Web - a one-stop-shop for information on the available APIs offered by various websites. Useful for anyone building web mashups.
- ReadWriteWeb - one of the world’s top 20 blogs that provides analysis of web products and trends.
- Ruby Inside - a popular blog about the Ruby programming language.
- Stack Overflow - programming Q&A site.
- Wired
design & web
- 456 Berea St - swedish web designer’s blog with helpful tutorials and articles for web professionals.
- InformationArchitects.jp
- Mandolux.com - one of the best sites around for high resolution, dual display wallpapers.
- TypeKit - a subscription-based service which allows you to use real fonts on the web.
- WebMonkey - one of the oldest web developer websites out there.
- Zeldman.com - NYC-based web designer and writer of the “Designing With Web Standards” books.
- kuler - browse and generate color themes
web analysis & search engine placement
- woorank.com - website analysis tool
- WebPagetest.org - “where web sites go to get fast”
- Google AdWords Keyword Tool - get new keyword ideas.
- Wordtracker keyword suggestion tool - enter keywords and get related keywords.
misc
- Bile Blog
- Flickr
- Hunch - croudsourced answers to questions.
- National Geographic
- New York Times
- NIN.com (Nine Inch Nails)
- Oppugn.us - blog of rants hosted by Zed Shaw.
- Pandora - online music streaming.
- quantcast - web traffic and demographic information.
- screenr.com - fast an easy screencasting if you need to present something in under 5 minutes.