There are many things I love about newegg.com (as well as the company itself) but probably the most unique thing I like is the navigation. Not the navigation on the home page but if you just search for a product and start narrowing down your search results there will be at list of links in order of how you would’ve of got there if you didn’t use NewEgg’s search bar. For example: Home>Computer Hardware>Memory>Desktop Memory>Kingston HyperX>Capacity 2GB>Type: 240-pm DDR2DRAM>Speed: DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
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Deviantart.com I don’t visit often enough, for the mere fact that it’s a place on the web you can spend several hours on and not notice. Deviantart does a good job of handling lots of media files and keeping page load time down.
For all we know Google company might just take over the software world and run out Microsoft when Google starts making operating systems and hardware. Google.com is one of the top websites hands down, mostly for the genius search engine but I’d like to point out for this blog the under-mentioned services Google provides: Gmail, Google Calendar, iGoogle, Google Tasks, etc. It is amazing for one website can do so many different things but still be organized enough for users to access everything easily and quickly.
With Gmail, Google’s email, introduction to the “tag” organizational system saves the user trouble of making folders and putting their email in folders, it solves the problem of if an email involves two different topics and you don’t know which folder to put the email in – just put two tags on it. I can’t wait until we can do that kind of file system on personal computers; most people don’t know that if you have 1,000 files each in 100 folders takes up more memory than does the same 1,000 files in two folders. ECU’s pirate mail could take a lesson or two from Gmail, it’d be great if pirate mail would require a tag just like a subject line before sending out an email. In addition iGoogle is a nice where the user can edit the Google search home page with mini Google product iframes and apps for popular websites like Facebook.
