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my favorite websites The New York Times Apparently this is proof that I'm what Bill O'Reilly calls a secular progressive. The Wall Street Journal Online Best business and technology reporting. Gmail I am using gmail exclusively these days. Good riddance to Outlook! Kayak I do all air travel through Kayak now. Amazon I use Amazon even more now since I signed up for Amazon Prime. Fresh Direct Really useful, but I guess only delivers in NYC for now. Max Delivery Kosmo/Urban Fetch 2.0. I love it. For the super lazy only. Netflix I like Netflix it in principle but in reality I think I suffer from serious case of Netflix guilt. Arts and Letters Daily Great list of highbrow, artsy links. The Huffington Post Fun, tabloid-style links. Rotten Tomatoes For movies, I like their rating system much better than metacritic.com. Hard to find a movie that got >90% that you don't like. Game Rankings My favorite game meta-review site, although I find metacritic pretty good too. UI is a bit clumsy sometimes. New York Review of Books Great, underappreciated magazine. It's kind of misnamed as much of it isn't really about books but instead wide ranging discussions of politics, world affairs, culture, etc. Open Table I only discovered this site recently and was really pleasently surprised at how well it works. Firefox One step closer to Microsoft-free living. friends of chris SiteAdvisor 100 million people have downloaded the free version of SiteAdvisor Teach For America My favorite non-profit. Ben Edelman Groundbreaking research about the dark side of web. Oddcast Superb Flash development. Bessemer Venture Partners They funded SiteAdvisor and lots of great companies. General Catalyst Partners A new fund but they've quickly made a name for themselves on the east coast. Michael Kearns If you ask me, the intersection of CS and Economics is the center of the academic action these days. Prof. Kearns is at the center of the center... Doug Wyatt Doug was another of the cofounders of SiteAdvisor along with me and Tom Pinckney. As you can see here, he's a smart guy. Vinay Pulim's site Vinay is a friend of mine. Brontes 3D Really interesting dental technology company started by friends from business school. Hugo Liu Hugo has done some great research at the MIT Media Lab. Josh Reznick My friend Josh Reznick other random things i like Wii The Wii is super cool but it definitely needs more good games. Board Game Geek Yes, I'm an adult, and I like board games Verizon EVDO Card EVDO changes your life. Apple After using a PC for about 20 years, last year I switched to a mac and am way happier. Crossing the Chasm The most valuable marketing book I've ever read. Information Rules Real economists study information businesses. Innovator's Dilemma Worth reading the original instead of the watered down popularizations. blogs I like A VC Old school VC blogger. Abnormal Returns Finance site, check out esp. the daily link summary. alarm:clock Overview of daily venture capital related transactions. Curbed If you happen to live in NYC, you are probably interested in real estate so you should read this blog. DealBreaker.com Gawker for finance. Download Squad Good software blog. Eater NY restaurant blog. Engadget My only complaint is I feel like they post too much - I'm always falling behind. Freakonomics Blog If you liked the book.. Fun-Motion If you happen to like physics-based video games, this is the best (and only?) blog on the topic. Gawker Further proof that I'm an elitist New Yorker. Greg Mankiw's Blog From the famous textbook author / Harvard economist. Kotaku My favorite video games blog. kottke.org Generally interesting observations on a variety of topics. Mark Andreeson's blog Really thoughtful blog from famous founder of Netscape. Nothing ventured, nothing gained VC Jeremy on various topics. PaidContent Variety 2.0. Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed One of the best VC / finance blogs. Redeye VC First Round represents an exciting new style of early-stage VC firm. Search Engine Land Best search engine news site. Silicon Alley Insider It's nice to finally have a NYC focused tech startup site. Now let's just hope the NYC tech market takes off... TechCrunch The famous web 2.0 tech blog. Techdirt A classic. Techmeme If you can only read one feed on tech, this is probably it. Valleywag Sassy tech site from Nick Denton. Venture Hacks It's a shame but a lot of founders end up failing by messing up the financing. Don't be one of them. Who Has Time For This? David Cowan from Bessemer. WSJ.com: What's News Technology WSJ tech feed.