After reading Ijonas' post about the death of Microsoft Office and the rise of Google's new online Spreadsheets (The end of Office as we know it), I have to admit I am a big fan of Webware... hence the reason I regularly check the blog Webware.com.

On that note the site is having what some may call a 'Crowning of the King of the Web', a contest to weed out the websites that try too hard and praise those worthy few.  The contest is split into 10 categories with each having 25 contestants. The entries were all submitted by readers of the blog a couple months ago and now the voting has begun...

Yesterday I spent some time just browsing the different nominees, some are worthless and others are quite interesting.  Although I haven't had the time to go through the whole list, I found a couple that I thought might be pretty useful.

http://www.askx.com/ is a version of the popular Ask search engine that uses all of the newest
Ajax technologies or http://www.chacha.com/ another search engine with a live person to help you search. Let me tell you talking to someone about search for Hadrian Engel return nothing but an upstanding young gentleman.

As for productivity, I have been swindled by 411 directory fees for too long! Google just recently created a FREE 411 number for those of use that need directory listings on the fly.  http://www.zoho.com/ is an online productivity suite (Word Processor, Spreadsheets and Presentations etc) that boasts it has a plugin for MS Office!

Lastly the site http://www.farecast.com/ seemed to be relevant to all of us travelers out there. It stores tons of data on the price fluctuation of online airline ticket stores and finds trends in ticket prices.  Most of all it tells you that you are buying a ticket when the price is a record high and waiting a day or so might save you some money!

There are more sites that I didn't have the time to try, online storage, databases, social networking, office tools, etc... But I invite you to browse some of these, most of these sites are just starting out and offer their services for free!