Time magazine just published its 50 Best Websites of 2011, which covers websites from varying topics, including entertainment, business, education, news, etc. I’ve never heard of most of them, and it made me think about what criteria Time used to identify these 50 as the best out of the millions of sites that must be on the web.
The common threads seem to be a website’s ability to connect people with similar interests, provide content that users are looking for on demand, or featuring something that anyone can relate to in their own way. One of my favorites was Dear Photograph, a site where users share memories in the form of an old photograph held up against the same background in present day. Although the people in the photographs are total strangers, I like that it feels like you were there, or maybe that you know the person in the photograph.
