Lists Resources

Edited by Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com

Advertising:
AdMarket 50 (Advertising Age magazine & Money.com)— http://www.money.com/money/adage/admarket50/
(Stocks of 50 leading ad agencies, advertisers, and media companies selected by Advertising Age & tracked by Money.com)
Online advertising activity - January 2000 (Revolution USA, March 7, 2000)— http://www.revolutionmagazine.com/archive/Magazine_Story.asp?Article=5390
(Web advertisers; Sites carrying ads; Auto advertisers)
Top 10 Ad Banners Viewed for the Week (Nielsen NetRatings)— http://209.249.142.16/nnpm/owa/NRpublicreports.toppropertiesweekly
(2-20-2000: Bonzi Software, DoubleClick, AmeriDebt, Acceleration Software, One and Only Network, Network Solutions, HealthQuick, Red Cross)
Top 10 Web Advertisers for the Week (Nielsen NetRatings)— http://209.249.142.16/nnpm/owa/NRpublicreports.topadvertiserweekly
(Week 2-20-2000: TRUSTe, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL, Microsoft, Next Card, SexTracker, Barnes and Noble, Datek, Netscape)
TV Guide's 50 Best Commercials (Post-Gazetter.com, June 30, 1999)— http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/19990630commercial4.asp
(#1 Apple Computer "1984"; #2 Alka-Seltzer "Spicy Meatballs" 1969; #3 Volkswagen "Funeral" 1969)
Art:
The Web's Most Popular Art & Museum Sites (91 sites compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/arts/museums.html
(March 15, 2000: iprint.com, allwall.com, art.com, sothebys.com, getty.edu, metmuseum.org, worldprints.com, art.net, moma.org, wwar.com)

50 Highlights of American Paintings & Sculptures (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)— http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view50.asp?dep=2
(Cassatt: Portrait of the Artist, Eakins: The Champion Single Sculls, Innes: Spring Blossoms, Kensett: Lake George, Leutze: Washington Crossing the Delaware, Proctor: Stalking Panther, Sargent: Portrait of Madame X)

50 Highlights of Asian Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)— http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view50.asp?dep=6
(China: Ritual Burial Disk, Hokusai: Great Wave, India: Shiva as Lord of Dance, Seated Ganesha, Japan: Death of Buddha, Nepal: Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya, Tibet: Jnanatapa Surrounded by Lamas & Mahasiddhas)

50 Highlights of European Paintings (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)— http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view50.asp?dep=11
(Bruegel: Harvesters, David: Death of Socrates, Delacroix: Abduction of Rebecca, El Greco: View of Toledo, Hubert Van Eyck: Crucifixion & Last Judgment, Fragonard: Love Letters, Gaugain: Hail Mary, Mantegna: Adoration of the Shepherds, Raphael: Madonna & Child Altarpiece, Rembrandt: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, Renoir: By the Seashore, Titian: Venus & the Lute Player, Turner: Grand Canal- Venice, Van Gogh: Irises, Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Jug)

50 Highlights of Modern Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)— http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view50.asp?dep=21
(Bonnard: Terrace at Vernonnet; Brancusi: Bird in Space; Braque: Candlestick & Playing Cards, The Studio; De Chirico: Ariadne; Demuth: Figure 5 in Gold; Henri: Masquerade Dress; Klee: Temple Gardens; Leger: Woman with a Cat; Matisse: Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance II"; Noguchi: Kouros; O'Keeffe: Red, White, and Blue; Picasso: Gertrude Stein, Girl Reading at a Table; Pollack: Autumn Rhythm; Wood: Ride of Paul Revere)
Books:
The 100 Most Popular Book Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/arts/books.html
(March 15, 2000: Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, prenhall.com, Borders on the Web, abebooks.com, Fatbrain.com, powells.com, Bartleby.com, Internet Bookshop Europes Largest Online Book Shop, Writers Write)
Top 100 U.S. Libraries (Association of Research Libraries Statistics 1996-97)— http://www.wisdomportal.com/TelnetLibraries/TopUSLibraries.html
(Library of Congress, Harvard University, New York Public Library, Yale University, Queen's Borough Public Library, University of Illinois-Urbana, University of California-Berkeley, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public, Chicago Public Library, Free Library of Philadelphia)
100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (by Martin Seymour-Smith, 1998)— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Books/100MostInfluentialBooks.html
(Chronological Listing: I Ching, Old Testament, Homer: Iliad & Odyssey, Upanishads, Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, Zoroaster: Avesta, Confucian Analects, Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War, Hippocrates: Works, Aristotle: Works)
Henry Miller: The 100 Books that Influenced Me the Most— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Books/HenryMiller-100Books.html
(Alphabetical Listing of the 100 books that influenced the writer Henry Miller)
Henry Miller: Books I Still Intend to Read— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Books/HenryMiller-100Books.html
(Alphabetical Listing of the 34 books that the writer Henry Miller wants to read)
Amazon.com's 100 Hot Books— http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=wisdomportalcom&path=subst/lists/best/amazon-bestsellers.html
(Top 100 Best Selling Books at Amazon.com, updated hourly)
The 100 Best-Selling Books (compiled by Go2Net Network based on B&N.com)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/entertainment/bestbooks.html
(Updated daily, the list is based on barnesandnoble.com revenue. It includes the 100 best-selling titles that people are purchasing through the barnesandnoble.com site.)
San Francisco Chronicle: Top 15 Best Selling Fiction & Nonfiction Books in the Bay Area— http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/document.cgi?file=/eguide/books/bestsellers/bestsellers.dtl&key=books&type=page
(Bay Area best-seller lists of top 15 fiction & nonfiction books are compiled each Tuesday from a telephone survey of booksellers)
USA Today: Top 100 Best Selling Books— http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/leb1.htm
(Based on a computer analysis of retail book sales nationwide from 3,000 large inventory, diverse content bookstores.)
New York Times: Best Selling Hardcover Fiction— http://www.nytimes.com/books/yr/mo/day/bsp/besthardfiction.html
(Top 15 fiction hardcover books posted weekly based on sales at 4000 bookstores with last week's position & weeks on list)
New York Times: Best Selling Hardcover Nonfiction— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/besthardnonfiction.html
(Top 15 nonfiction hardcover books posted weekly based on sales at 4000 bookstores with last week's position & weeks on list)
New York Times: Best Selling Hardcover Advice Books— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/besthardadvice.html
(Top 15 advice hardcover books posted weekly based on sales at 4000 bookstores with last week's position & weeks on list)
New York Times: Best Selling Paperback Fiction— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/bestpaperfiction.html
(Top 15 fiction paperbacks posted weekly based on sales at 4000 bookstores with last week's position & weeks on list)
New York Times: Best Selling Paperback Nonfiction— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/bestpapernonfiction.html
(Top 15 nonfiction paperbacks posted weekly based on sales at 4000 bookstores with last week's position & weeks on list)
New York Times: Best Selling Advice Paperbacks— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/bestpaperadvice.html
(Top 15 advice paperbacks posted weekly based on sales at 4000 bookstores with last week's position & weeks on list)
New York Times: Best Selling Hardcover Fiction at Independents & Chain Bookstores— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/fictioncompare.html
(Top 22 fiction hardcovers based on sales at independent bookstores & national chain bookstores)
New York Times: Best Selling Hardcover Nonfiction at Independents & Chain Bookstores— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/nonfictioncompare.html
(Top 22 nonfiction hardcovers based on sales at independent bookstores & national chain bookstores)
New York Times: Best Selling Hardcover Fiction at Independents & Chain Bookstores— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/advicecompare.html
(Top 10 advice hardcovers based on sales at independent bookstores & national chain bookstores)
New York Times: Best Selling Paperback Fiction at Independents & Chain Bookstores— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/paperfictioncompare.html
(Top 22 fiction paperbacks based on sales at independent bookstores & national chain bookstores)
New York Times: Best Selling Paperback Nonfiction at Independents & Chain Bookstores— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/papernonfictioncompare.html
(Top 22 nonfiction paperbacks based on sales at independent bookstores & national chain bookstores)
New York Times: Best Selling Advice Paperbacks at Independents & Chain Bookstores— http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/bsp/paperadvicecompare.html
(Top 22 advice paperbacks based on sales at independent bookstores & national chain bookstores)
Business:
25 Sites Every Business Should Know (compiled by Nordale Services)— http://nservices.com/25biz.htm
(Mapquest, Big Book, Monster Board, TheStreet.com, Onsale.com, U.S. Census Bureau, Small Business Administration, CCN Business Owner's Toolkit, Expedia, Entrepreneurial Edge)
Forbes 1999 Super 100 Companies— http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/forbes500s/asp/super100_99.asp?year=1999
(General Electric, Citigroup, BankAmerica, Exxon, IBM, Ford Motor, Amican International Group, AT&T, Wal-Mart, Chase Manhattan, Fannie Mae, General Motors)
Fortune 500 Companies (1999)— http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/forbes500s/asp/super100_99.asp?year=1999
(General Motors, Ford Motor, Wal-Mart, Exxon, General Electric, IBM, Citigroup, Philip Morris, Boeing, AT&T)
Top 200 Networking Companies (Network World, April 24, 2000)— http://www2.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/gate2?nwfusion|nw200-2000/search.html
(Companies ranked by revenues, profit, market capitalization, profit as % of revenue, revenue per employee, change in revenue)
Top 100 California Companies (LA Times)— http://www.latimes.com/business/times100/tables.htm
(Biggest companies in Southern California by revenues, profit, market capitalization, fast growth)
Top 100 Massachusetts Business— http://www.boston.com/globe/business/packages/globe_100/1999/globe_top_100.htm
(11th Annual Boston Globe's Top 100 Massachusetts Business of 1999)
Top 10 Reputable Companies in St. Louis (Harris Poll, Oct. 22, 1999— http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/index.asp?NewsID=36&HI_election=
(Anheuser-Busch, Ralston Purina, Monsanto, Edward Jones, A.G. Edwards, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, May Dept. Stores, Schnuck's Markets, Emerson Electric, TWA)
Demographics:
Databases Survey (Economic History Services)— http://cs.muohio.edu/Databases/US_Pop/
(Demographic history data from Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, United States)
Population Growth in the United States, 1800-1980 (Economic History Services)— http://cs.muohio.edu/Databases/US_Pop/
(U. S. Population by decades 1790-1800 to 1970-1980)
Geography:
50 U.S. States & Capitals (50states.com, Santa Clarita)— http://www.50states.com/
(50 states from Alabama to Wyoming: capital, area, bird, flag, flower, motto, song)
50 U.S. Official State Birds (50states.com, Santa Clarita)— http://www.50states.com/bird/
(Listing by state & by family genus for all 50 states from Alabama's Yellowhammer to Wyoming's Western Meadowlark)
50 U.S. Official State Songs (50states.com, Santa Clarita)— http://www.50states.com/songs/stsongs.htm
(Lyrics to the official songs of all 50 states from Alabama to Wyoming)
50 U.S. States: Fast Facts & Trivia (50states.com, Santa Clarita)— http://www.50states.com/facts/
(Fast facts & trivia for all 50 states from Alabama to Wyoming)
Nations of the World (E-Conflict World Encyclopedia)— http://www.emulateme.com/alphanationtext.htm
(Alphabetical listing from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Flag, Map, Geography, People, Gov't, Economy, Transportation, History)
Best & Worst Places to Live in America (David Savageau & Ralph B. D'Agostino, Places Rated Almanac, 6th Ed., 1999)— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Books/BestPlacesToLive.html
(Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT; Washington D.C.; Seattle-Bellevue-Everette, WA; Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL; Denver, CO; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC; Toronto, Ontario; Houston, TX; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Phoenix-Mesa, AZ)
Best Places to Live in America (12th annual ranking from Money Magazine, 1998)— http://www.money.com/money/bestplaces/winners.html
(Midwest: Minneapolis, MN; Madison, WI; Rochester, MN; Northeast: Washington, DC; Trenton, NJ; Manchester, NH; South: Norfolk, VA; Richmond, VA; Charlottesville, VA; West: Seattle, WA; Boulder, CO; Fort Collins, CO)
Best Places to Live 2000 (Money Magazine, 2000)— http://www.money.com/money/depts/real_estate/bestplaces/
(Big Cities: San Francisco; Austin, TX; New York City; Small Towns: Rochester, MN; Boulder, CO; Columbia, MO)
History:
Important Dates in History (Chronicling events that shaped our lives)— http://www.wisdomportal.com/History/HistoryDates-1.html
(May 528 BC: Birth of Buddha to October 1990: Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web)
Events in History on This Day (compiled by Nordale Services)— http://nservices.com/events.htm
(A Time Capsule of Significant Events in History for Virtually Everyday of the Year)
Headline Events in History (from William McGaughey's Five Epochs of Civilization)— http://www.quintepoch.com/events.html
(Headline events arranged chronologically from Pharaoh Narmer in 3000 B.C. to McGwire-Sosa home run contest in 1998)
Upcoming History Events for 2000 (Living History Online)— http://www.livinghistoryonline.com/upcome.htm
(Commemorations & Reenactments: 20th, 19th, 18th, 16th/17th Century, U.S. Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, American Revolution, Medieval/Renaissance, Ancient/Prehistoric, Multiperiod/Cultural)
Decade By Decade: 1900-1999 (Irish Times, Autumn 1999)— http://www.ireland.com/special/times2000/decade/
(A critical look at the factors and events that helped shaped each decade of the last 100 years. From both a global and Irish perspective the key movements, issues and ideologies are mapped and analysed.)
A Timeline of Irish History (Prepared by PBN and sitka, � 1998, HyperHistory Online)— http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/index.html
(Pre-history timeline & important dates from Death of St. Patrick in 461 to Initial peace-plan in 1998)
Chinese Dynasties: Chinese & World Chronology (compiled by Chinapage.com)— http://www.chinapage.com/dyna1.html
(From Age of Five Rulers 2700-2200 B.C. to People's Republic of China 1949-present)
History Timeline for Chinese Dynasties (by Leon Poon, University of Maryland)— http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html
(From Xia Dynasty 2000-1500 B.C. to People's Republic of China 1949-present)
Internet:
The 100 Hottest Companies on the Net (Business 2.0, May 1999)— http://www.business2.com/articles/1999/05/content/b2top100.html
(Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, AOL, Amazon, Marshall Industries, 3Com, Ingram Micro, MCI Worldcom)
10 Driving Principles of the New Economy (Business 2.0, March 2000)— http://www.business2.com/services/10principles.html
(Matter, Space, Time, People, Growth, Value, Effieciency, Markets, Transactions, Impulse)
Time 1999 Digital 50 (Time Digital, October 4, 1999)— http://www.business2.com/services/10principles.html
(TIME Digital's list of the technology elite: Jeff Bezos, Steve Case, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Meg Whitman, Michael Dell, John Chambers, Steve Jobs, Michael Armstrong, John Carmack)
The 100 Most Popular Kids Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/education/kids.html
(March 15, 2000: Headbone Zone, PBS Online, Discovery Online, bolt.com, Yahooligans, Bonus.com, gurlpages.com, United Media, Nintendo Power Source, Teen.com)
The Most Popular Events Sites (63 sites compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/arts/events.html
(March 15, 2000: yahoo.com, lycos.com, egreetings.com, digitalcity.com, pollstar.com, tickets.com, playbill.com, ticketmaster.com, timeout.com, usacitylink.com)
The 100 Most Popular Chat Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/lifestyles/chat.html
(March 15, 2000: Yahoo! Chat, Public Homepage of The Globe, Talk City, Looksmart.com, simplenet.com, Aol.com, Tribal Voice, Lycos.com, smartbotpro.net, classmates.com)
Top 100 Popular Web Sites with Direct Links (compiled by Nordale Services based on 90 days of data)— http://nservices.com/top100.htm
(Jan. 2000: Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Lycos, Starmedia.com, GO Network, Excite, AltaVista, NetTaxi, USA.net )
Top 25 Consumer Resources on the Web with Direct Links (compiled by Nordale Services)— http://nservices.com/top100.htm
(CNNfn The Financial Network, Kiplinger Online, Microsoft Investor, Motley Fool, Cable News Network, MSNBC, New York Times on the Web, USA Today, Flifo Travel Reservations, Internet Travel Network)
Top 10 Web Sites by Category with Direct Links (compiled by Nordale Services based on 90 days of data)— http://nservices.com/top10.htm
(Jan. 2000: Auction, Employment, Financial, Games, Health, Kids, News, Shopping, Sports, Travel)
Top 10 Web Properties for the Week (Nielsen NetRatings)— http://209.249.142.16/nnpm/owa/NRpublicreports.toppropertiesweekly
(Week 2-20-2000: AOL Websites, Yahoo, MSN, Excite@Home, Lycos Network, GO Network, Microsoft, NBC Internet, eBay, Time Warner)
Home Internet Usage Statistics for the Week (Nielsen NetRatings)— http://209.249.142.16/nnpm/owa/NRpublicreports.usageweekly
(Week 2-20-2000: Sessions per week: 6; Unique sites visited: 6; Time spent per site: 32 minutes; Time spent per week: 3 hours 6.5 minutes; Time spent per surfing session: 31 minutes; Duration of a page viewed: 53 seconds; Active Internet Universe: 56,021,469; Current Internet Universe: 123,209,086)
Top ISP (StatMarket: Global Internet Market Data at Your Fingertips)— http://www.statmarket.com/#
(AOL, UUNET, @Home, T-Online, WebTV, AT&T, Road Runner)
PC & Internet Use Continue to Grow at Record Pace (Harris Interactive Surveys of over 2000 adults in December 1999)— http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/index.asp?NewsID=55&HI_election=
(P.C. use from home surpassed the 50% mark, with 90% of users now online; In 1996, 27% of computer users were using the Internet compared to 81% in 1999.)
Top 50 Free Downloads (ZDNet)— http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/hotfiles/free50.html
(3-1-2000: Audiograbber v1.62, Graph Paper Printer v4.2, Spinner Plus v3.0.5, CloseFast v5.11.1999, Arachnophilia v4.0, 3DMark2000 vBuild 335, CAM UnZip v3.0, Desktop Architec v1.0, Apollo v37)
Investments:
The 100 Most Popular Finance Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/business/finance.html
(March 15, 2000: Yahoo Finance, Quote.com, Motley Fool, E*Trade, Nasdaq, Bloomberg Personal, CheckFree Investment Services, Charles Schwab-SchwabNOW, Fidelity Investments, CNN Financial Network)
Internet Index (Goldman Sachs)— http://cbs.marketwatch.com/data/dbcfiles/gstinett.htx?source=htx/http2_mw
(_IIX.X: 17 stocks of Internet companies from Amazon.com to Yahoo! compiled by Goldman Sachs)
Most Active Stocks Traded (Morningstar.com)— http://screen.morningstar.com/x.xs/XGeneral/StMovPct?group=1
(Most active stocks traded on the NYSE, Nasdaq, and AMEX for the day)
Biggest Stock Gainers (Morningstar.com)— http://screen.morningstar.com/x.xs/XGeneral/StMovPct?group=2
(Biggest stock gainers on the NYSE, Nasdaq, and AMEX for the day)
Biggest Stock Losers (Morningstar.com)— http://screen.morningstar.com/x.xs/XGeneral/StMovPct?group=3
(Biggest stock losers on the NYSE, Nasdaq, and AMEX for the day)
Fund Analyst Picks (Morningstar.com)— http://search.morningstar.com/se/s97is.dll?Action=FilterSearch&Filter=Archive.filt&Section=Funds&dept=Fund+Analyst+Picks
(Mutual funds from 20 categories selected by Morningstar analysts)
Top 50 Technology Mutual Funds (Technology Investor, March 2000)— http://www.technologyinvestor.com/mutual%20funds%20february.html
(Nicholas-Apple GlbTech I, Home State Year 2000, PBHG Technology & Common, Firsthand Technology Value, Monument Internet A, First American Technology A, Waddell & Reed Sci & Tech B, Van Wagoner Technology)
Top 100 Mutual Funds (Money Magazine, 1999)— http://cgi.money.com/cgi-bin/money/best100funds/best100funds.plx
(Alphabetical listing for Large-Cap, Mid-Cap, Small-Cap, International, & Specialty Funds; What Changed from 1998 Listing)
Best Investments for 2000 (Money Magazine, 2000)— http://cgi.money.com/cgi-bin/money/bestinvest/invest.plx?id=picks
(Best Stocks: Duke Energy, Citigroup, Cardinal Health, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Medtronic, Lucent, Qualcomm, Broadcom; Best Funds: Invesco Health Sciences Fund, T. Rowe Price Science & Technology)
What's Your Fund Style (Kiplinger.com)— http://www.kiplinger.com/investments/funds/fundstyle/style.htm
(Alphabetical list of mutual funds with their investment % in large growth, large value, med. growth, med. value, small growth, small value, international stocks, bonds, cash)
Largest Mutual Funds: 1 Year & 3 Years (Kiplinger.com)— http://www.kiplinger.com/investments/funds/top/largest.htm
(Stock Funds: Janus, Fidelity Magellan, American Century Ultra Inv, Fidelity Contrafund, Vanguard 500 Index;
Bond Funds: PIMCO Total Return Instl, Vanguard Short Term Corp, Vanguard Total Bond Market Index, Vanguard GNMA)
Top Stock Funds: 1 Year (Kiplinger.com)— http://www.kiplinger.com/investments/funds/top/stock1.htm
(Aggressive Growth, Long-Term Growth, Growth & Income; Tables for 3-year & 5-year performances)
Mixing income with growth funds (Kiplinger Magazine, March 2000)— http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2000/March/portshort.htm
(Short Term: less than 5 years; With Links to Tables for Medium Term: 5-9 years & Long Term: 10 or more years)
Goldman Sachs' Technology Research Picks Top 10 Themes for 2000— http://www.gs.com/news/2000/top10_2000.html
(Ten overall themes that will drive the development and growth of the technology sector in the year 2000)
Goldman Sachs Investment Research Picks Favorite Stocks for the Year— http://www.gs.com/news/2000/usfavorite2000.html
(89 stocks which Goldman Sachs expects to return 35% compared to 4% for the S&P 500 for the year 2000)
Top-25 Most Viewed Fund Families (CBS Marketwatch)— http://funds.marketwatch.com:80/top_families.phtml
(Janus, Fidelity, Vanguard, American Funds, Pilgrim Baxter, Firsthand Capital, T. Rowe Price, Putnam, Invesco, American Century)
Top-100 Most Viewed Individual Funds (CBS Marketwatch)— http://funds.marketwatch.com:80/top_families.phtml
(Firsthand Tech Value, Janus Global Tech, Janus Worldwide, Fidelity Growth, Janus Twenty X, Janus Fund, Fidelity Select Electronics, Vanguard 500 Index, Janus Mercury, PBHG: Tech & Communications)
Top 100 SuperStar Funds (CBS Marketwatch)— http://funds.marketwatch.com:80/ss100.phtml
(The SuperStar 100 Index is a consensus directory of the top 100 mutual funds, the best-of-the-best, selected from a database of 10,000 funds. These 100 funds are screened from 150 "best funds" lists independently prepared by industry experts and published in America's leading financial periodicals. Funds arranged alphabetically in groups: Growth, Aggressive Growth, Sector, Global, Hybrid, Index, Bond)
Silicon Valley 150 (San Jose Mercury News)— http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/companies/sv150/charts/sv150chart.htm
(1999 rankings of top Silicon Valley companies: Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Oracle, Seagate Technology, Apple Computer, Quantum, 3Com, Solectron)
Oh, IPO! How Low Can You Go? (Hoovers' IPO List of Losers, 4-14-2000)— http://www.hoovers.com/feature/block/detail/0,2417,23_2340,00.html
(In the recent market shakeout, many IPO casualties tumbled over 80% from their highs)
Magazines & Newspapers:
Top 100 Newspapers in U.S. (in alphabetical order by Nordale Services)— http://nservices.com/top100news.htm (links to 100 U.S. newspapers)
The 100 Most Popular News Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/arts/newspapers.html
(March 15, 2000: MSNBC, CNET, Weather Channel, PathFinder-WarnerBros-CNN sites, BBC Online, USA Today, GO Network-Start Here, news.com.au, New York Times on the Web)
The 100 Most Popular Magazine Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/arts/music.html
(March 15, 2000: Ziff Davis & HotFiles, Bloomberg Personal, Women's Wire & Beatrice's Web Guide, Pathfinder-WarnerBros-CNN sites, Times Mirror Interzines, nationalgeographic.com, Mecklermedia's internet.com, pathfinder.com, idg.net, homearts.com)
National Newspapers— http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Periodicals/National_Newspapers/ (indexed by regions)
Newspaper Archives on the Web— http://sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html
(newspapers tabulated by state with access fees)
NewsChoice: Online Newspaper Network— http://www.newschoice.com/ (links to 35 newspapers across the USA)
California Newspapers— http://www.townsonline.com/networks/california/newslist.htm (Links to 84 newspapers)
International Newspapers— http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Periodicals/International_Periodicals/ (country index)
trib.com (International News Resources)— http://www.trib.com/NEWS/newslist.shtml (Links to 54 Newspapers from Latin America)
Electronic Newsstand— http://www.enews.com (Links to Electronic Magazines Online)
Science Magazines (Alta Vista Connections)— http://altavista.looksmart.com/r?comefrom=avsearch-e217008&izf&e217008 (26 links to science magazines)
Movies:
The 100 Most Popular Movie Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/entertainment/movies.html
(March 16, 2000: Internet Movie Database, Reel-Best Place to Buy Movies, starwars.com, Yahoo! Movies, real.com, Mr. Showbiz, tminterzines.com, yahoo.com, Matrix, go.com)
Top 20 Box-Office Leaders This Week (compiled by Go.com)— http://mrshowbiz.go.com/reviews/moviereviews/numbers/index.html
(Film, This Week & Last Week's Ranking, Weeks in Release, Total Gross, Screens, Screen Average, Weekend Gross)
Top 20 Box-Office Leaders in 1999 (compiled by Go.com)— http://mrshowbiz.go.com/reviews/moviereviews/numbers/1999top20.html
(Ranking, Film, Gross: Star Wars: Episode I, Sixth Sense, Toy Story 2, Austin Powers, The Matrix, Tarzan, Big Daddy, The Mummy, Runaway, Bride, Blair Witch Project)
Top 100 All-Time Box-Office Leaders (compiled by Go.com)— http://mrshowbiz.go.com/reviews/moviereviews/numbers/top100.html
(Ranking, Film, Release Date, Domestic Gross: Titanic, Star Wars, Phantom Menace, E.T., Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Return of the Jedi, Independence Day, The Empire Strikes Back)
Top 100 All-Time Box-Office Leaders: Inflation Adjusted (compiled by Go.com)— http://mrshowbiz.go.com/reviews/moviereviews/numbers/top100.html
(Ranking, Film, Release Date, Total Gross, Adjusted Domestic Gross: Gone With the Wind, Star Wars, Sound of Music, E.T., Titanic, The Ten Commandments, Jaws, Dr. Zhivago, The Jungle Book, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Oscar Winners 2000 (New York Times, March 27, 2000)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/oscars2000.html
(Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Best Director, Foreign Film, Screenplay: Adaptation & Original, Art Direction, Cinematography, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Costume, Documentary: Feature & Short Subject, Film Editing, Makeup, Short Film: Animated & Live Action, Visual Effects, Thalberg Award, Honorary Award)
Oscar Nominees 1999— http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nom_index.html
(Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Documentary: Feature & Short Subject, Film Editing, Foreign Film, Original Score, Original Song, Short Film: Animated & Live Action, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Visual Effects, Screenplay: Adaptation & Original)
Academy Award Winners for the Oscars 1927-1998— http://www.oscar.com/history/pastwinners/pas_index.html
(Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Documentary: Feature & Short Subject, Film Editing, Foreign Film, Original Score, Original Song, Short Film: Animated & Live Action, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Visual Effects, Screenplay: Adaptation & Original)
Top 50 Film Actors & Actresses (American Film Institute's Greatest Legends selected by 1,800 influential artists & executives in the film community)— http://www.afionline.org/100stars/legendprint.asp
(Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Charlie Chaplin. Actress: Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford)
Actors & Actresses (American Film Institute)— http://www.afionline.org/100stars/faqs.asp
(Alphabetical listing of 546 stars from Kevin Bacon to Robert Young with birth & death dates)
* The First, Middle and Last Dance [Best wedding dance music] (Compiled by MAURA EGAN, NY Times, Jan. 16, 2005)
Music:
The 100 Most Popular Music Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/arts/music.html
(March 15, 2000: MTV Online, MP3.com, Yahoo & Yahooligans, Rollingstone.com, GO Network-Start Here, CDnow, pathfinder.com, Spinner.com, Columbia House, LAUNCH.com)
The 100Hot Musicians (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/stars/musicians.html
(3-15-2000: Madonna, Coolio, Cher, Alanis Morissette, Elton John, Tom Jones, Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Christina Aguilera, Fiona Apple)
The 100Hot Songs (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/entertainment/songs.html
(March 16, 2000: Pennywise: My Own Country, Rage Against the Machine: Maria, Peter Searcy: Losing Light Fast, Creed: Higher, Foo Fighters: Learn to Fly, Elvis Costello: Alison, Pink: There You Go, Oasis: Go Let It Out, Limp Bizkit: Crushed, D'Angelo: How Does It Feel)
Winners of the 2000 Grammy Awards (New York Times, Feb. 24, 2000)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/music/022400grammys-list.html
(New Artist: Christina Aguilera; Single Record: "Smooth," Santana; Album: "Supernatural," Santana; Pop Vocalist, Female Sarah McLachlan; Pop Vocalist, Male: Sting; Pop Instrumentalist: Santana)
Harris Interactive Poll for Grammy Awards 2000 (January-February 2000 Poll of youth community on who should win the Grammy's)— http://www.HarrisZone.com/voting/press/Grammy.html
(New Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Best R&B Song of 1999, Best Alternative Music Performance, Song of the Year, Best Hard Rock Performance, Best Performance by a Duo or Group, Rap Album of the Year)
Top 30 Romantic Classical Pieces (Voted most popular by KDFC listeners for playback on Valentine's Day 2-14-2000)— http://kdfc.com/onair/romeojuliet_cont2.html
(Pachelbel: Canon in D, Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Beethoven: Fur Elise, Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2, Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, Debussy: Clair de Lune, Ravel: Bolero, Vivaldi: Four Seasons, Pucccin: O Mio Babbino Caro)
Top 100 Artists in Rock 'n Roll (VH-1 asked today's top music artists to name their choices)— http://www.rockonthenet.com/1998/vh1poll.htm
(Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Bob Dylan, James Brown, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, The Who, The Police)
Top 100 Rock Songs in Rock 'n Roll History (VH-1 asked a panel of 700 voters to name their choices)— http://www.rockonthenet.com/2000/vh1songs.htm
(I Can't Get No Satisfaction - Rolling Stones, Respect - Aretha Franklin, Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin, Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan, Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen, Hotel California - The Eagles, Light My Fire - The Doors, Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys, Hey Jude - The Beatles, Imagine - John Lennon)
MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made— http://www.rockonthenet.com/1999/mtv100.htm (Michael Jackson: Thriller, Madonna: Vogue, Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer, Run-D.M.C. & Aerosmith: Walk This Way, Guns N' Roses: Sweet Child O'Mine, Beastie Boys: Sabotage, Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love, 2Pac: California Love, Madonna: Express Yourself)
Top Selling LPs of All-Time (Recording Industry Association of America)— http://www.rockonthenet.com/special/toplps.htm
(Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Michael Jackson: Thriller, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Led Zeppelin IV, Billy Joel: Greatest Hits, Vols 1 & 2, Fleetwood Mac: Rumours, The Beatles: The Beatles, Whitney Houston: The Bodygurard Soundtrack, AC/DC: Back in Black, Boston: Boston)
The 100 Greatest Women in Rock 'n Roll (VH-1 asked today's top music artists to name their choices)— http://www.rockonthenet.com/1999/vh1women.htm
(Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Chrissie Hynde, Madonna, Annie Lennox)
Top 50 Rock Artists of the Century (based on sales reported by Recording Industry Association of America)— http://www.rockonthenet.com/1999/artists.htm
(The Beatles, Garth Brooks, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, The Eagles, Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd)
The ARC Weekly Top 40 (updated every Thursday)— http://www.rockonthenet.com/charts/index.htm
(Top 40 pop chart covering the spectrum of popular music since 1980: Top LPs, Top Singles, Top Videos, ARC Archive)
Top 12 Jazz Musicians of the 20th Century (voted by KCSM listerners)— http://www.kcsm.org/whatsnew.html#7
(Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Billie Holliday, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman)
1999 Artist Top 10 Lists (CDNow.com's News, Dec 13, 1999)— http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1767036847/pagename=/RP/ALLSTAR/article.html/fid=159141
(Top 10 Things To Spend Your Entertainment Dollars On)
Top 100 Classic Musical Pieces (voted by KDFC listerners, 2004)— http://www.kdfc.com/new/allstars_links.cfm
(Beethoven, Symphony #9; Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto #2; Bach, Brandenburg Concertos)
Top 100 Classic Composers (voted by KDFC listerners, 2004)— http://www.kdfc.com/new/allstars_composers.cfm
(Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky)
Top 100 Classic Performers (voted by KDFC listerners, 2004)— http://www.kdfc.com/new/allstars_performers.cfm
(Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, James Galway, Wynton Marsalis)
People:
Top 100 People Who Shaped the Millennium (from Gottlieb's 1000 Years, 1000 People)— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Books/1000Years1000People.html
(Gutenberg, Columbus, Luther, Galileo, Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin, Aquinas, Leonardo, Beethoven))
Time Magazine's Most Important People of the 20th Century— http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/
(Leaders & Revolutionaries, Artists & Entertainers, Builders & Titans, Scientists & Thinkers, Heroes & Icons, Person of the Century)
Top 100 Women of the Millennium— http://www.women.com/news/top100/023.html
(Mini-Biographies arranged by profession & centuries from Women.com)
The 50 People Who Most Influenced Business This Century (LA Times)— http://www.latimes.com/business/reports/top50/
(William Shockley, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby; Henry Ford; FDR; Walt Disney; Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs; David Sarnoff; Mike Milken; Douglas MacArthur & Edwards Deming; Donald Douglas & William Boeing; J.C.R. Licklider, Leonard Kleinrock, Larry Roberts, Tim Berners-Lee)
30 Marketing Visionaries (Philip Kotler, Kotler on Marketing: How to Create, Win, and Dominate Markets, 1999)— http://www.wisdomportal/Books/MarketingVisionaries.html
(Anita Roddick, Fred Smith, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Ray Kroc, Walt Disney, Sam Walton, Tom Monaghan, Akio Morita)
Forbes 400 Richest Americans (index by worth, 1999)— http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/rich400/asp/WorthIndex.asp?year=1999&value2=1
(Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Warren Buffet, Steven Ballmer, Michael Dell, Walton Family, Gordon Moore, Du Pont Family, Larry Ellison, John Kluge, Philip Anschutz, Mellon Family, Barbara Cox Anthony, Anne Cox Chambers, Sumner Redstone, Rockefeller Family, Jeff Bezos, Abigail Johnson, Kirk Kerkorian, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Schwab)
Forbes: World's Richest People (index by worth, 1999)— http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/billnew/net98.asp?condition=25,99>
(Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Paul Allen, Steven Ballmer, Oeri, Hoffmann & Sacher families, Michael Dell, Philip Anschutz, S. Robson Walton, Prince Alsaud, Liliane Bettencourt, Theo & Karl Albrecht & family, Li Ka-shing, Haniel family, Curt Engelhorn, Kenneth Thomson, Lee Shau Kee, John Kluge, Jay S. Walker, Jeff Bezos, Quandt family)
100Hot Celebrity Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/stars/celebrities.html
(3-15-2000: Stephen King, Madonna, Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, David Letterman, Cher, Gary Sinise, Rupert Everett, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts)
100Hot Politicans (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/stars/politicians.html
(3-15-2000: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, George Bush, George W. Bush, John McCain, William Cohen, Pope John Paul II, Bill Bradley, Jeb Bush, Alan Keyes)
Science:
The 100 Most Popular Health Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/stars/musicians.html
(March 15, 2000: Medscape, oxygen.com, AMA, OnHealth!, eBMJ-British Medical Journal, drkoop.com, intelihealth.com, vh.org, thirdage.com, planetrx.com)
Sports:
Baseball's 100 Greatest Players (The Sporting News)— http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-1.html
(Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Hank Aaron, Lou Gehrig, Christy Mathewson, Ted Williams, Roger Hornsby)
Baseball's Top Home Run Hitters in a Seaon— http://www.wisdomportal.com/HomeRun/TopHR-season.html
(Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Maris, Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, Hack Wilson, Ken Griffey Jr., Ralph Kiner, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays)
Baseball's Top Home Run Hitters in a Lifetime— http://www.wisdomportal.com/HomeRun/TopHR-lifetime.html
(Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams)
100Hot Athletes (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/stars/athletes.html
(3-15-2000: Dan Marino, Ray Bourque, Shaquille O'Neal, Vince Carter, John Rocker, Dale Earnhardt, Will Clark, Brad May, Ken Griffey, Bobby Labonte)
The 100 Most Popular Sports Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/sports/sports.html
(March 15, 2000: ESPN.com-NBA.com-NFL.com, CBS SportsLine-Soccer.net-CricInfo-GolfWeb, CNN-Sports Illustrated, World Wrestling Federation, americascup.org, Times Mirror Interzines & Sporting News, Small World sports, Canoe: Canadian Online Explorer, PGAtour.com)
Timeline of a Sporting Century (by Simon Barnes, London Times, 12-11-99)— http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/11/timspemil02007.html
(Decade-by-decade survey of 20th century's most significant sporting moments)
Technology:
Top 100 Applets (from Java Boutique)— http://javaboutique.internet.com/stats/top_100.html
(TFCloud, Lake, GhostKit, SirType Free, SamosMenu, Jbee, Favicon, NewsScroller, SimplePong, DellasTreeApplet)
The Web's Most Popular Developer Sites (100 sites compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/tech/developer.html
(March 15, 2000: AOL & Netscape, MSDN Online, Sun Microsystems, adobe.com, Symantec Corp, Internet.com, zzn.com, Network Solutions, Developer.com, IBM developerWorks)
The Web's Most Popular Hardware Sites (100 sites compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/tech/hardware.html
(March 15, 2000: Sony.com, Sun Microsystems, Dell Computers, tomshardware.com, AltaVista: Main Page, Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Price Watch-Street Price Search Engine, UNC-Chapel Hill, IBM Corp.)
The Web's Most Popular Mac Sites (62 sites compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/tech/mac.html
(March 15, 2000: Apple Computer, Apple Macintosh News at MacCentral Online, Version Tracer, MacInTouch, Network Associates, aladdinsys.com, MacWEEK Online, MacFixit, MacAddict, macosrumors.com)
The Web's Most Popular UNIX Sites (61 sites compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/tech/unix.html
(March 15, 2000: Sun Microsystems, FreeBSD Inc, Linux Home Page, nasa.gov, debian.org, squid-cache.org, Network Associates, linuxtoday.com, linuxberg.com, Linux Kernel Archives)
The Web's Most Popular Windows Sites (100 sites compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/tech/windows.html
(March 15, 2000: Microsoft, lycos.com, TUCOWS & FreeThemes, SimpleNet, Tom's Hardware Guide, webshots.com, Ask.com, Winamp.com, WinSite, NeoPlanet)