Explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. They’ve grouped these collections – ”aggregations” – into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, they display the latest five stories from thirty or more sites on a single page – they call this “single-page aggregation.”

The premier political community in the United States, with traffic of about 600,000 daily visits. Among luminaries posting diaries on the site are President Jimmy Carter, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and dozens of other senators, congressmen, and governors. But, even more exciting than that, tens of thousands of regular Americans have used Daily Kos to lend their voice to a political world once the domain of the rich, connected, and powerful.

Serving breaking news from the wires and opinion pieces from all sorts of high and low profile bloggers, HuffPost users are an interesting set of political junkies and I could spend hours just reading the comments alone.

It started out as a graduate project at Stanford University and has grown to almost world-taking-over proportions. Rather than just indexing the words on a site, Google’s pioneering search algorithm rated a page’s authority by how many links it received, thereby tapping into the distributed power of the web. To this day I tell people to “Google it”: this search engine has become part of the lexicon of the Internet forever.