Make your family tree easily with Geni

For an exercise that's all about family, researching your genealogy can be an oddly lonesome affair, filled with long hours spent sifting through records and making awkward phone calls to far-flung relatives. ButGeni turns tree-building into a collaborative effort: the free site gives you the basic tools for diagramming your ancestry, and it also lets you invite others to contribute. If you're serious about tracing your lineage, you'll probably still click on stalwarts like Ancestry.com, Family Search and the USGenWeb Project for their vast digital archives, but Geni makes it easier — and more fun — than ever to create and share your family tree.

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The Nest.com

Here's a lifestyle site designed for newly wedded yuppie couples. The Nest — a clever customer-retention device, brought to you by the creators of the wedding site The Knot — covers key topics from design tips for your new home to advice on merging financial assets, to preparations for having a baby. The Nest makes good use of readers' wisdom. There's a "casting call" for couples who want to share their personal stories, plus local guides to restaurants, personal trainers and mortgage brokers that the site's editors cull from submissions.

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AskMen.com - Cosmopolitan for men

Think of it as Cosmopolitan for men. Beyond the requisite yearly hot-babe-ranking (2008's "Top 99 Women" is already live), AskMen dishes out provocative tips on sex, dating and relationships, and schools men on everything from office-party survival to the "FAQ on Semen." Other articles on the site include "10 Signs You're Whipped" and "Turn a Female Friend into Something More." Racier than Men's Health and FHM, AskMen is the go-to site for single guys on the make.

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Yahoo! Answers your questions

Advice is everywhere on the Web, but nowhere is it more accessible than atYahoo! Answers. Questions are arranged both by topic and what's most popular (e.g., "Is rinsing your hair with milk good for it?") and get all sorts of amusing, creative and, occasionally, helpful responses. Contributors compete to boost their rankings by answering the most questions and collecting the most positive feedback on their replies. If you've got yet more questions needing answers, visit Ask Metafilter or the newer Try This.

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Trip Kick - Find the PERFECT hotel for you

Ever spent top dollar on a hotel, only to get stuck in a crummy room? TripKick, which launched in May 2008, solves this dilemma by telling you which floors are best and which rooms to avoid. When we searched for the Hilton Las Vegas, for example, TripKick told us not only which rooms had the best view, but also which were too close to the elevators and noisy vending machines. Travelers can also add their own room ratings. For now, TripKick covers 250 hotels in 12 U.S. cities — and it's adding a new city each month. The site borrows its concept from the airline-seat rating service SeatGuru, which has provided clear maps of the interior of commercial planes for years. Both sites improve your odds of having a truly bon voyage.

Review by Anita Hamilton (Time.com)

Hulu.com offers Network TV shows and Movies for FREE for US Citizens only

I came across Hulu.com and was amazed to see what this website has to offer. "Hulu is a hub for network TV shows and movies: Hulu offers shows from nbc, Fox, pbs and other channels, including free full episodes of SNL, The Daily Show, The Office and other hits the TiVo-less masses often miss, plus films like Ghostbusters, The Fifth Element and Lost in Translation."(Time.com)

"Hulu is an online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com and other online destination sites — all for free, anytime in the U.S. " (Hulu.com/about)

The only problem (not for US citizens) with Hulu.com is that currently Hulu.com is only available for people in the US. They have international streaming issues. Lets hope they solve it, because I would simply love to watch premium videos/movies online for free. Hulu.com is like YouTube of Network TV shows and Movies.