You and I don't live in the same world. How old are you and what's your vocation? I'm 68. I've been (and still am) in the computer business (programmer, engineer, R&D investigator, architect, I/T Consultant) since 1963. I am technologically current and proficient by any rational measure (I sponsor several computer conferences a year). I travel extensively. I spend an average of over 32 hours a week at my computer (80% work related). It seems to me that your article is intended for people well less than half my age who spend significant time sharing their life online with the world, listening to music, and watching videos. Perhaps there's a different list for the rest of us?

Agree with Different World. Great sites for teens killing time but not business apps. If your business IS online social networking then these may matter. If your business is something else then these are essentially just a productivity drain.
The article gives us a few more sites to proactively block at work I guess.

Interestingly enough, though you say TV.com is no Hulu, I popped over for a quick look-see, opened a random video, only to see "provided by Hulu.com"...

Maybe I'm getting old or maybe it's just that much of the social networking hype simply doesn't deliver when it comes to business results, but I find most sites lacking.

In Chicago I've been using a service called www.bizblinddate.com that leverages the web to set up real, face-to-face business networking meetings between individuals with similar interests.

I have found this blend of virtual/realworld to be quite effective.

Curious if others have used it.

I won't ever visit a single one of your '10 Web Sites that Will Matter'. I'm in front of a computer all day and on the Web for work and recreation.

Who wrote this article? Apparently, someone who is concerned only with social and mobile websites. Even my 16 year old son and 22 year old daughter won't be going here.

Missed it by a mile.

I think this was a missed opportunity to highlight some of the sites that are really making an impact for CIOs around the world by providing tools and resources that increase productivity and the return of investment.

As a Canadian, I have to chime in on how 40% of the websites listed are ONLY available to Americans. The research done to pick these 10 was very narrow and certainly not of value to a CIO

I can't agree anymore with Eldon that the research was rather narrow and very US-centric. Certainly, I like to see the criteria used in ranking the 10 web sites. If the writer was using the number of subcribers for each site, he forgot to survey beyond US. In China, QQ - a top social website in Chinese has over 350m members and is growing, and Baidu - the search engine in Chinese again, has over 75% market share - much more than the Chinese version of Google. Time to wake up that the rest of the world is starting to catch up, and soon lead.

As the article suggests the intention was to assess websites that would potentially generate buzz / be newsworthy. I think the interpretation was reasonable but similarly it would be interesting to see a list of sites most useful/popular amongst the Senior ITDM audience. Please publish this!