Bjorn Tipling

If you’re not with us, you’re against us, and Time is not with us. Us being people who use the internet. I don’t know who edits that weekly paper/website/whatever, but their new Top 10 Websites for 2007 list is telling. While everyone else is going gaga over the iPhone being declared the number one gadget of the year, let’s take a look at this list:

1. Lemonade.com
2. AskSunday.com
3. Wink.com
4. TechPresident.com
5. goodreads.com
6. MenuPages.com
7. DontForgetYourToothbrush.com
8. VolunteerMatch.com
9. Fatsecret.com
10. Indeed.com

I’ve never heard of a single one of these. Must be because I’m out of touch with the web. Not enough hours put in I suppose. I’m all for new discovery and such but a top ten list should have top websites? I don’t necessarily mean traffic, but at least importance in our lives, buzz, gradients-rounded-corners-glass-reflection ratio? Even if the list were Top Ten NEW Websites for 2007, this list is out of touch. While goodreads.com and Wink.com, and possibly even Indeed.com are marginally interesting, this list fails to excite. A real top ten list would include Twitter. Could be Time’s intended audience, you know the non-tech savvy ‘regular people’ that are still using IE6 and bugging you for computer help because they clicked on a link in a phishing email.