You can call me a fan (or a fanboy), a follower, a fanatic or even a stalker dammit... I really don't care. Over this past year I have noticed far too many creepy commonalities between us and so, in my own little way, I would also like to pay homage (albeit a bit late) to Tom Merritt's departure from CNET to TWiT with my own Top 5:

1. Tom' ( Read more... )

1) Google (http://www.google.com)

DUH! Only the best generic search engine on the web. Sure there are meta crawlers and sites like Wolfram, Dogpile, Bing and Turbo10 - but for straight up search results it long ago eclipsed HotBot as #1. All of this combined with it's Microsoft and Yahoo competitive functions in portal aggregation, web mail, ( Read more... )