Websites I like

I enjoy having a little shout about different websites that I like, so I thought I would extend this practice to my CV, as well. Why not?

Facebook
This does seem quite an obvious one (one of the most visited sites in the UK). However, I think Facebook is amazing, because it provides such an excellent tool for doing more than just poking your mates, and teasing each other about photos of last night.
I am currently using Facebook - as well as for the above reasons - to organise Fish on Toast, the University of Southampton's entrepreneur society, through an exclusive committee group. Through the appropriate conjunction of Google Docs, this makes Facebook a very powerful managerial tool. One of the little things I really like, is the thread function. With boring old emails, it is difficult to get an idea of how other people have responded. With Facebook threads, I can ask a simple question to everyone (e.g. when should we have our next committee meeting?) and it is clear to both me and those receiving the message, what everyone thinks; making it more like a conversation, rather than a postal system.
Another little nugget I like about Facebook, is Facebook Lexicon. This funky app. produced by Facebook, allows you see what words are being over what ever time period you choose.

PodFeed.net
I like this little (appropriate at the time of 'print') website because I think it has a lot of potential. The website allows individuals to listen to a very, very large collection of different podcasts without having to download them themselves. This isn't a particularly big paradigm shift, but it removes the irritants of having lots of podcasts constantly being downloaded to your computer, even if you have no intention of listening to this week's Latin Jazz podcast (I'm not really a subscriber to this).
I think this website has great room for improvement. If those running the website were to find a way of sync-ing the website to Facebook (removing the need to create yet another profile on another website, just so you can access their content), as well as making their adverts more relevant, it could very easily become a successful website (in my esteemed opinion), both financially and hits wise. By relevant I mean, they should look to get their podcasts correctly labelled, so that they are able to both inform the user exactly what songs are mentioned or played in each podcast, as well as have links to an Amazon Associate page of theirs, where users may purchase any songs they wish, subsequent to their listening of a podcast on their site.

Warp Records
There are lots of cool record label websites. However, I like this particular one, primarily because I love their music, and secondly because it is a funky website. My qualm is that the music starts automatically (which is always annoying, if you're not expecting it), and I haven't as of yet worked out how to shut it up (as much as I do like their music).

Google Presentations
Lots of people are always talking about how amazing Google Docs and YouTube embedding is. Less lauded is Presentations, a lesser used Google product that I think is very good. I have continued my justification in the Presentation, below:



PixelCityHome.co.uk
Another, lesser known website. Reminiscent of the OneMillionDollarWebPage, PixelCityHome seeks to display popular website links in a simple format. The thinking behind this is that one day all of us will want it as the Home page on our browsers. Whether this objective will become a reality on home computers, especially with the prevalence of products such as iGoogle, is doubtful. However, this website, I think has great promise in its application for mobile devices, particularly the iPhone. The website looks a lot like an early SimCity (or the album cover to Groove Armada's 'Soundboy Rock'). Do look around it, as it is quite interesting and the guy who runs it is quite nice.