Last week Time.com released its list of the 50 Best Websites of 2011.
Since I recently spent something like 8 hours re-organising my bookmarks, I can afford to place some more links in my favs folder.

These are the websites I saved, either because they’re cool or because I’ll recommend them to people in order to look cool\receive compliments like “aww I’ll visite this website all the time, I don’t know how to say thank you you’re my hero” and so on.

Howcast. It’s like Youtube, except for the fact that there are no 10-years-old uploading their cover of Justin Bieber, but only people who know their shit posting things like “how to build an electromagnet” and things like that.

Poptropica. It’s a site for kids. They’ll love it.

Wonderopolis. A website that explains facts, like “how does an eraser work” and “how people removed pencil marks before Englishman Edward Naime invented the eraser in 1770“.

GetHuman is possibly the best website of the entire internet. It gathers together the phone number Big Companies try to make difficult to find. Like, Facebook, Vodafone, Visa, you name it, they can’t hide from your frustration anymore.

ScienceDaily, a website about what our friends The Scientists discover every day.

Kickstarter. is a website where you can post you Big Idea (or your small idea!) and people bid to finance it. I’ll never use but I know some people out there who might find it useful.

Airbnb I won’t use this one either any time soon, since I don’t have enough money to get from Cambridge to Ely right now. Other people might find AirBnB a precious source to find cheap accommodation mostly everywhere across the world.
It’s a market place – like eBay – for spare rooms, unused holiday houses and things like that.
It also provides an insurance to cover possible damages your guests might leave in your place.

Hipmunk is an engine that makes finding flights and comparing fares extremely easy.

Retrevo helps you find the right item for your needs, comparing prices, qualities, reviews and so on.

Qora it’s like Yahoo Answers but with less trolls and more qualified people.

Storify. I haven’t tried it yet but I’ll quote the entire TIme’s caption here because it seems interesting.

Twitter is full of pithy, smart stuff, much of which is seen by relatively few people before it is buried and forgotten. The best of it is worth preserving and sharing more broadly. Enter Storify, a clever service that lets you bundle up related tweets, TwitPics, Facebook updates, Flickr photos and other elements onto one page. You can add your own commentary and publish the assembled package on the Web. Even professional newsgathering outfits are experimenting with Storify as a new way to report on major stories like the London riots.

KhanAcademy Free lessons in thousands of different topics, Math, Science and so on.

OpenYaleCourses Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. Isn’t cool? I mean, knowledge, spread for free.