I Am Still Beautiful

I just did a post on Seattle 2.0, entitled "Don't Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful."  In the blog post, I refer to the classic 80's Pantene commercial featuring Kelly LeBrock as inspiration to list out my favorite audaciously beautiful online applications.  Here are several more that I personally couldn't live with out that are just gorgeous:

• Netvibes - the king of all start pages.  My entire RSS reading life is encapsulated in their visually, appealing and low-work effort UI.
• Etsy - they manage to frame non-traditional retail information (homemade goods) in way that makes it fun and interesting to shop.  

• UrbanSpoon - I am not sure what the business model is, but, its a great site for all of you foodies and the iphone application is pretty darn cool.  Pretty novel use of the iphone and they have this cool feature that lets you shake the iphone to determine your favorite restaurant, as the describe it as "part Magic 8 Ball, part slot machine."

• Seeking Alpha compiles financial information in a way that is just wonderfully packaged to be digested in meaningful bits.

What are some of your favorite online applications that can stand up to the Pantene test.

Comments

[Michael Semick]

Hello Matt,

You might find this project interesting:

http://www.cond.org/zoetrope.html

It's not a public beta yet, but looks very promising.

[BobbyS]

http://www.snap.com/

I love snap!!!

Works wonderful on all my sites.

[Steve Brewer]

www.viewzi.com - visual search
www.grooveshark.com - online music

I'm a google reader person, utility is beautiful.