Time 50 Coolest Websites

How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates—some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips.

A variety of amusements, from classic rock to famous photography, collage art to custom radio, plus our favorite video web logs

Dead Guy Sooner Boy Sundance Splinks Wolfgang's Vault Photo Muse

Podcast Pickle Pandora The 9 Ron's Rants

Yummy food, Hollywood fashion and helping hands for those do-it-yourself projects

Phone Scoop Delicious Days Not Martha Shop Intuition

Kids-In-Mind Mighty Goods Zunafish

The Web's best war correspondent, a snarky sports blog, the pioneers of "social news" more

The Morning News Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone Charity Navigator Footnoted

Tailrank Dom's Weird News Digg The Human Clock

A humming social network, community sing-along, instant-messaging hub, mobile-launched pub-crawls and numbers-crunching by committee

MySpace Google Spreadsheets SingShot

Yellow Dog Grannie Dodgeball

Juicy celebrity gossip, mindless computer games and other guilty pleasures

TMZ Shockwave Yu-Gi-Oh Groove

Cute Overload Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas Number Logic

An airfare predictor and subway guide, restaurant reviews and car sharing

Zipcar Farecast Kayak Zillow

Hop Stop CentralPark Yelp

Ordering take-out, finding phone numbers and a slew of alternative search engines

Accoona Kosmix Snap Pixsy

Argali White & Yellow Blurb Seamless Web Debbie's Site