Time's 50 Best Websites 2009

About this time every year, Time produces its recommended list of the year's 50 Best Websites. It's fun to peruse the annual list to see what's new, what's hot, and sites you might not yet know about.

We discussed ten of the heavy hitters on this year's list in earlier Tech Tips and Tech Updates:  Internet Archive, YouTube, delicious, Google, Hulu, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, drop.io and Pandora. To make an even dozen, here are two additional websites from one from this year's list that we suggest you take a look at.

• Academic Earth lets you experience the Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UCLC and Yale classrooms from your desktop. Here's a snippet from AE's mission statement: We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• popurls.   Launched in 2006, popurls is a gateway to a selective list of the world's most popular web sites. popurls describes itself as the mother of aggregators, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet. If the web site looks a bit manic, it's because in one place popurl provides access to YouTube, delicious, Flickr, Twitter, NYTimes, Technorati, and more. You can personalize the page to suit your own needs. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Now that we've whet your appetite, here's the link to all 50 Best Websites.  -buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the int