Useful websites

[mikekn]

Once again, I'm looking for useful websites - specifically places that are good reference sites as well as letting you keep track of your own info.

My favorite examples are www.boardgamegeek.com and www.librarything.com - both great sources for information on games and books respectively plus they let you catalog your own collections (and boardgamegeek recently expanded to cover RPGs as well via www.geekdo.com .) www.imdb.com and www.tv.com are great references, but I don't have any use for them beyond that.

Three others I've started playing with are:

http://www.last.fm - sort of a mixture between Pandora and music based social network. As you play your music, it collects and catalogs it. It can use you collection to make recommendation and point you to people with similar music tastes. It will also let you know about upcoming events with your bands or similar groups. As a cataloging tool it isn't that great, but I've still been having fun with it. Does anyone else use it?

http://www.tourfilter.com/philadelphia - bertana pointed me to this one. Give it a list of groups you are interested in and it will let you know when they will be playing in your area. It only covers a few metro areas (it started in Boston) and still feels like a small operation, but it catches more shows then it misses.

http://www.gurulib.com - Primarily a cataloging site for music, movies, books and video games. It also tries to be a social network, but I don't see much use in that part. It has a decent interface for taking bar codes and looking up the items via Amazon. When I was looking to catalog our CDs it was the best I could find that met the requirements of free, on-line and export-able. And a good thing I could export it - it went down for a few weeks with no communications not long after I got our music on-line. I still plan to use for our movies, unless something better comes along.

Does anyone have any other examples? Favorites? On any of the above? (I'm always looking for people to "friend" on them)

Comments

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

Oh I save EVERYTHING there. I just don't have it all as well organized as I really should.

[bertana.livejournal.com]

I have been saving more and more stuff there, but I think I'm in your boat -- tons of stuff, not nearly well-organized enough. (Which means, of course, half the time I have better luck googling than digging through my own darn links. Argh!)