Total Number of Clips: 1 Cumulative Est. Audience: 3,650,598 Cumulative Est. Publicity Value: $2,035,620 (Sum of Clip Totals)
Entry #1
Play Media
Today
NBC (NBC)National Programming, DMA: 0
Aug 24 2009 9:16AM EDT
Programming Type: Talk News
Est. Households/Views: 3650598
Est. Publicity Value: $169635 (30 Seconds) $2035620 (Total)
Watch out Amazon, Ebay and Netflix. New websites are getting a lot of buzz looking for new recipes or the perfect baby name or overwhelmed with travel plans, Time.com put together a list of the 50 best websites they could find. We have five sites you need to know about. I just rolled off some of those familiar names like Netflix, Google, Amazon. These are names that show up on these types of lists. What criteria did you use to pick which websites you profiled? We looked for places that make web users lives easier and more fun. We look at Google and Ebay and look at the ones that continue to impress. Google is recognized every year since 2003, not a big surprise that it is user friendly. Google is one of the sites that's one of the best search engines out there. We also turn to Google because they continue to reinvent themselves every day. There's always something new that impresses us. We have five websites that we're sharing with our audience that they may not have heard about that they should know about. The first one is supercook.com. It allows you to cook -- allows the home cook to go into the refrigerator, look at their ingredients and say I have three ingredients what can I make? You type them into the search bar and the site spits out recipes that are easy to make and simple and you don't have to shop. That could change my life. I'm excited about going home and trying that. The site has 300,000 recipes. How do they make this happen? They search the big recipe sites out there. How many points does this one get for being user friendly? It's very easy. its super user friendly. The next one is academicearth.com. What does this website offer? It allows anyone to get an education. You logon and you watch lessons from big name universities like Stanford, M.I.T., Princeton, Yale. You can see people like Thomas Friedman just talking about things that you may never have a chance to get into the classroom and learn. This is all free? It's all free. It's easy. You can do it from your home office. Perhaps the only problem with this is only a few schools are participating. You expect this to expand later to other schools as well? We expect more schools to join up and more classes to be added. Number three, for the bargain hunters out there it’s called shopgoodwill.com. It sounds an awful lot like Ebay, what’s the difference? It's the online shoppers guide alternative to Ebay. It's run by Goodwill Industries and they put up things on the website like Burberry purses, diamond jewelry, furniture, things that you can find on Ebay but for cheaper on Goodwill's site. Because it is Goodwill, it's a nonprofit organization. Where do the profits go? This is my favorite part about the website. Profits are going to a good cause. They're going to fund education programs for people with disabilities. That's a really good thing. Cool. Number four is for the traveler. tripit.com. It's for the highly organized traveler or for the traveler who needs a little help making travel itinerary. You take your travel confirmation e-mails and forward them to tripit who takes information from the e-mails and creates a travel itinerary for you. You can print it out. You can look at it online or look at it on your mobile device. It's neat and user friendly. A social networking angle to this as well that's interesting. If you're on your trip and you have your itinerary with you, you can see whether your friends are taking the same route that you're taking. A layover at the same airport or something. You may have someone there sitting there to pass time with. This is a baby name website. It's called namevoyager and tells you popularity of names from 1800s. Yeah, so babynamewizard tracks the popularity of baby names. it's an essential tool for moms and dads picking you names. Amy was popular in the 1970s. I was Amy number three in every class. I wasn't happy about that. If you're trying to find a name th at's unique so they don't become amy number three in their class, you can find a unique name? Yes. Any trends you saw from year to year? Trends for this year were in a tough economic year it was really a time for sites that make your life easier and make your life less expensive. All right. Thanks so much.
Total Number of Clips: 1 Cumulative Est. Audience: 3,650,598 Cumulative Est. Publicity Value: $2,035,620 (Sum of Clip Totals)

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