Top 50 Websites in the world

TIME magazine has announced the list of top 50 websites of 2009. According to the list published the hottest thing on the Internet is not social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, but Flickr-the popular photo-sharing portal – it has topped TIME’s list of the best 50 websites of 2009. One of the important trends in this year’s list is on-demand video services, like YouTube, Vimeo and US services Hulu and Netflix. However, the top two in the list are related to photographs, with California Coastline following Flickr at the second spot. Third in the list is bookmark website Delicious, while community weblog Metafilter ranked at the fourth place.

Popurls, the web’s most visited social news sites and portals, grabbed the fifth spot in the list. Twitter is ranked sixth and Facebook comes at 31st in the list, while YouTube and Hulu have got 12th and 14th place in the list. See the complete Time magazine’s list of Top 50 websites in the world ::

1. Flickr
2. California Coastline
3. Delicious
4. Metafilter
5. popurls
6. Twitter
7. Skype
8. Boing Boing
9. Academic Earth
10. OpenTable
11. Google
12. YouTube
13. Wolfram|Alpha
14. Hulu
15. Vimeo
16. Fora TV
17. Craiglook
18. Shop Goodwill
19. Amazon
20. Kayak
21. Netflix
22. Etsy
23. PropertyShark.com
24. Redfin
25. Wikipedia
26. Internet Archive
27. Kiva
28. ConsumerSearch
29. Metacritic
30. Pollster
31. Facebook
32. Pandora & Last.fm,
33. Musicovery
34. Spotify
35. Supercook
36. Yelp
37. Visuwords
38. CouchSurfing
39. BabyNameWizard.com’s NameVoyager
40. Mint
41. TripIt
42. Aardvark
43. drop.io
44. Issuu
45. Photosynth
46. OMGPOP
47. WorldWideTelescope
48. Fonolo
49. Get High Now
50. Know Your Meme

To open these sites in your browser, just copy the website name and search in Google and ofcourse, click the first link.