50 Best Websites 2007

Our 2007 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Web right now. Here we honor sites with exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience. What do you think of our choices? Take our poll and let us know.

By Maryanne Murray Buechner

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No muss, no fuss: Just current conditions and the five-day forecast, by city or ZIP code, without ads or other distractions. The site remembers your last three checkpoints and lists them in a drop down menu for easy access. If your computer doesn't accept cookies, you can bookmark the SimpleWeather with your ZIP code in the URL, like so: www.simpleweather.com/00000 (replace the zeroes with your ZIP's five digits). The weather data comes from Weather.com and for now, coverage is U.S. only, but Canada and the UK are next. SimpleWeather also has a blog (who doesn't?) which provides some insight into this little operation and the two guys behind it, as well as some pretty useful tips. The April 26 post, for instance, explains how to create a multi-tabbed homepage. What a charming and humble way to encourage more frequent visitation.

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