5 Websites I can’t Live Without

161 responses..

Rand recently posted his 5 websites he could not live without and asked for others to post there’s.

Here is mine:






Yup thats the whole list.

My wife and my daughter I could not imagine living without but godamn SEO BLOGS?!?!?

I am amazed at how many people in the comments list all the sites they cant imagine life without… I guess I am in the minority.




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  • posted on October 15th, 2007:
    Written By: ShoeMoney

    161 Comments

    @October 15, 2007 12:25 pm
    John Cow Says:

    How about shoemoney.com ?

    @October 15, 2007 12:32 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    I could totally live without this site. Its BY FAR the lowest return time/money that I have ever done. Blogs are the biggest timesinks =(

    @October 15, 2007 12:39 pm
    John Cow Says:

    But you’re having fun right ?:)

    @October 15, 2007 12:43 pm
    Israel Says:

    they do take up a lot of time. especially if you are trying to monetize them.

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    @October 15, 2007 7:07 pm

    Huh! What type of blog are you running? It takes me around three hours a day to interview people. Another one hour to review and post the dang thing online. But I do it because I enjoy blogging, where as most people mainly do it for the money, or etc.

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 7:09 pm

    Huh! What type of blog are you running? It takes me around three hours a day to interview people. Another one hour to review and post the dang thing online. But I do it because I enjoy blogging, where as most people mainly do it for the money, or etc.

    This comment is for this dude down there v

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    @January 11, 2008 9:15 pm

    Of course Shoe is having fun! People that meet him keep asking for autographs and pictures. Isn’t that right Jeremy? ;)

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    @October 15, 2007 3:12 pm
    jim Says:

    So it desktop defender… hahaha

     
    @October 15, 2007 3:17 pm

    Hey I’ll take over shoemoney.com If you want to get it off your hands ;) Hahaha. J/k of course.

     
    @October 16, 2007 2:13 am

    lol, I wasn’t even look at the question from a making money angle.

     
    @October 21, 2007 1:01 pm
    Neon Says:

    i think you dont really care how much this shoemoney blog makes. it is just bonus if there is revenue. this is for you to make some ranting. there is no fun if no one is reading your rants :D

     
     
     
    @October 15, 2007 12:25 pm
    Stealth Says:

    Nice front. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on.

    @October 15, 2007 1:30 pm

    i personally thought for few seconds that my network was really slow loading an image or so… then i understood.

    I would just change the title to “5 websites i could not start working without visit them” (not sure about the grammar) and I could see that. I personally never start working before reading my favorites newspaper sites and blogs.

     
    @October 15, 2007 6:00 pm
    ritchie Says:

    very nice posting. I totally agree, my list looks just like yours.

     
    @October 16, 2007 12:08 am
    lyricsreg Says:

    I started looking trough the html source :)

     
    @January 11, 2008 9:12 pm

    Haha. When I first saw this, I thought there was a video loading or something.

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 12:28 pm
    LeGo Says:

    seems like you would atleast have nextpimp or auctionads. not sure but they seem relevant to you.

    @October 15, 2007 12:33 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    I could live without them and focus more on our brick and mortar business investments.

    @October 15, 2007 1:25 pm
    LeGo Says:

    I can’t wait til the next q & a. I am new to reading about people making money on the internet, so hearing things such as the above surprise me. It seems most people try to go the other way…

     
     
     
    @October 15, 2007 12:30 pm
    nickycakes Says:

    There’s this site about some party with lemons that I just don’t seem to be able to make it through my days without.

     
    @October 15, 2007 12:41 pm
    tonyinabox Says:

    is it an empty list? i don’t see any in the list you said

    @October 15, 2007 12:43 pm
    nickycakes Says:

    i weep for your children

    @October 16, 2007 12:09 am
    lyricsreg Says:

    lol that cracks me up

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 12:43 pm

    haha… he wanted to say that he could live without the websites, and that his family is the one that it’s the most important in his life.

     
    @October 16, 2007 12:58 pm
    Ginene Says:

    I can’t see anything either. Do this have to be viewed a certain way?

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 12:42 pm

    Haha. Guilty of not reading the question.

    “couldn’t live without” is a little strong….

     
    @October 15, 2007 12:42 pm
    Israel Says:

    i didnt get it i thought that my ad blocker was blocking them, but then i got it. i could do without the web, it would be hard at first, but i could do it.

     
    @October 15, 2007 12:50 pm

    I did without the Web for the first 20 some-odd years of my life. I was happy then. I do like the Web and all the fun it brings and the promise it brings to the world of brining it closer together and sharing ideas, but I could live without it. I don’t know what sites I rely on.

     
    @October 15, 2007 12:59 pm
    Theo Says:

    Off topic:
    Your own posting is appearing in the friends’ posts (dmoz extortion)

    @October 15, 2007 1:23 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    ya im playing with some things ;)

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 1:00 pm
    Theo Says:

    Update:
    All the postings in the friend’s section are from yourself..

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:01 pm
    Jon Kelly Says:

    right on, Shoe. I just unplug when I’m away and it’s fine. The blah-blah just goes on whether i read it or not. What cracks me up is that I can fire up the reader after 2 weeks and see another dozen “google changed its algo” or “5 ways to improve your….” post. It just doesn’t change.

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:04 pm

    What? You could live without Desktop Nexus? Heresy!
    =p

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:13 pm

    Sick new implementation of an RSS idea there Jeremy.

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:14 pm

    Yep, the web is just another way for people to tie themselves to something, my last vacation I logged back on and then just mass deleted the emails from the 3 days I was gone and it seems like I missed nothing.

    Hey on another note, this guy tried to buy one of my domains and he followed the shoemoney buying domains strategy you have in an earlier post, now that I’ve thrown out the $5000 figure for him to pay we’ll see if he will either sh1t or get off the pot, lol.

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:14 pm
    Dave Says:

    Come on. I know you could not live without Perezhilton. lol

    @October 15, 2007 1:23 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    I have switched from perez to thesuperficial

    @October 15, 2007 10:45 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    I have switched from neither one to nothing else. I just don’t see the point… it’s like I want to read for information and listen / watch entertainment.

    @October 16, 2007 10:21 am
    King Jacob Says:

    Ive switched from perez to stabbing my eyes with forks, its alot more pleasant.

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    @December 13, 2007 10:03 am

    both are great for the random celeb shot

     
     
     
    @October 15, 2007 1:30 pm

    I was like, “where’s the damned list!” lol, good one. And I agree.

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:33 pm
    Big Money Says:

    Shoemoney, what do you actually do besides this blog? I am a new member and don’t know much about you except hearing that you made millions doing online stuff like I do.

    @October 15, 2007 2:06 pm

    are you making millions like him? sure?

    @October 15, 2007 4:19 pm
    Big Money Says:

    no, I meant I heard that Shoemoney makes millions, I don’t make anything lol. I wanted to know what other stuff Shoemoney does besides this blog, I thought he made millions on this blog but he said otherwise on a recent post.

    I guess once you get a good name and are successful in something, it’s much easier to build new projects. Would love to discuss this topic with Shoe, but will probably move it to the forum before getting carried away and making a huge post in the comments…

    @October 15, 2007 10:47 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    Jeremy makes sites focused on a service. He makes them really good and the traffic naturally follows. He’s also really good at monetizing them, which helps a lot. I’ve got a ton of respect for him and Dave both, and I don’t give out respect all that easy.

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    @October 15, 2007 1:46 pm
    Brent Says:

    I agree, I could live without any sites at all, though I wouldn’t want to live without usbank.com ..do all my banking through that site.

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:54 pm

    [...] else is posting their lists, so here are mine. These are the 5 sites I can’t live [...]

     
    @October 15, 2007 1:59 pm
    James Says:

    Of course I could live without electricity too, but that would be boring at first and then I’d find other interests.

    @October 15, 2007 10:48 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    Like… without electricity… geeks would totally cease to exist. We’d all be relegated to doing… uhm… real world stuff. The horror! The HORROR!

    @October 16, 2007 10:22 am
    King Jacob Says:

    They had geeks before electricity ie Ben Franklin,Aristotle, Da Vinci, Archimedes, the list goes on.

    @October 16, 2007 1:49 pm

    You forgot Socrates and Abraham Lincoln, those guys were great in the Bill and Ted movie

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    @October 15, 2007 1:59 pm
    Mubin Says:

     
    @October 15, 2007 2:04 pm
    Googlelady Says:

    Oh here is my list:

    Google.com

    Now you tell me that you miss days without typing Google.com?

    @October 15, 2007 10:49 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    I don’t search at all on the weekends, and probably 2 - 3 days during the week. I have a few sites I go to for information, and everything else is just spent working on my own sites or my 9-5.

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 2:13 pm

    I couldn’t live with google. =(

    @October 15, 2007 4:20 pm
    krillz Says:

    hmm well then you’ll have to destroy it somehow, as it’s practically everywhere!
    Hmm google resembles the matrix in some weired way…

    @October 15, 2007 8:27 pm
    Garry Conn Says:

    lol… yes indeed… Google is the Matrix… Unplug while you can!

    @October 16, 2007 12:11 am
    lyricsreg Says:

    Don’t want to. I like living in th fantasy world of google

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    @October 15, 2007 2:14 pm

    ProBlogger… Google… TMZ… OffTopic… WordPress

     
    @October 15, 2007 2:48 pm

    It’s hard to imagine not using the Internet daily, but after a week or two on vacation I’m ready to abandon it altogether…then I crack the lid of my MacBook Pro and I’m instantly hooked again…it’s a drug!!!

     
    @October 15, 2007 3:12 pm
    jim Says:

    Hahaha, i love it when people say ridiculous things like “I can’t live without XYZ.” Yes, yes you can. People lose parents and grandparents and other loved ones and they still live on… to attach that meaning to websites? C’mon…

     
    @October 15, 2007 3:17 pm

    Hehe. The only sites I couldn’t live without are the ones I own. Why? Because I literally couldn’t live since they’re my only cash source. :P

    @October 15, 2007 4:19 pm
    krillz Says:

    haha amen to that!

     
    @October 15, 2007 10:50 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    Yeah… you’d have to learn how to make money some other way. ;)

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 3:42 pm

    Another brilliant Shoemoney blog. I love it!

     
    @October 15, 2007 3:52 pm

    I couldn`t live without online banking.

    @October 15, 2007 6:39 pm
    Googlelady Says:

    he is talking about sites not “real” things :P

     
     
    @October 15, 2007 4:01 pm
    jfno Says:

    And obviously this is not just a scam to get people to look at the actual site to make sure they didn’t miss anything. Allowing you to hit them with the rss popup. I wonder which one is going to win. You are both devious, that’s for sure.

    @October 15, 2007 4:03 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    you have no idea

    @October 15, 2007 8:29 pm
    Garry Conn Says:

    lol… yeah for a minute there I had to pinch myself because I thought I was back in the 90’s again…

    Hey man… you gotta do what you gotta do. Keep those numbers climbing. :)

     
     
     
    @October 15, 2007 4:27 pm

    I’d have to say blank list for me too. They are just websites for crying out loud. Although I think the “can’t live without part” is just hyping up the title for better link bait. Sounds better than “5 really great websites”.

     
    @October 15, 2007 4:38 pm
    Klaudio Says:

    I could live without computers :)

     
    @October 15, 2007 5:01 pm

    I don’t think there are any sites I can’t live without. I do have five sites that I hit more often than any other (more out of habit than anything), but I don’t have cravings for them in any real sense.

     
    @October 15, 2007 5:35 pm
    REC Says:

    Pop Ups suck

    @October 15, 2007 7:14 pm

    Pop up only worked once for me…

     
    @October 15, 2007 10:51 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    I totally missed the pop-up. I was trying to change to a different program and accidentally clicked on the blog page, making it go away. What was on the pop-up?

    @October 16, 2007 5:42 pm
    DanaMark Says:

    The pop-up was a chance to sign up for Shoemoney’s RSS feed to his blog (the contest, you know!)

     
     
     
    @October 15, 2007 5:56 pm

    If I had to choose 5 sites that I would be restricted to for a period of time, I guess they’d be :
    - reuters.com (to keep up with news)
    - wikipedia.org (to look thing up)
    - php.net (reference for code)
    - maybe youtube.com (for entertainment)

    I can’t think of a 5th site off the top of my head. I guess I could LIVE without any of them. My wife is slowly showing me how to exist for days at a time without the Internet. I only go on once on our honeymoon.

    @October 15, 2007 6:41 pm
    Googlelady Says:

    what about Google? Could be your 5th website no?

    @October 15, 2007 7:13 pm

    It would be in my list.

     
     
     
    @October 15, 2007 6:23 pm
    mick Says:

    well some of the….more affluent IM marketers can say this after the INTERNET has created them an nest egg of other bricks and mortar ,shares etc investments that bring home the bacon on auto.
    Well so would i if the situation arises in the future.
    The internet is a time and life sucker,apart from sleeping and sitting in the crap house.
    But the truth is no one whom is addicted to this Internet shat can,stay away for more then two days without getting withdrawal symptoms..such has our lives been changes by online highway :) ..as for my fav sites hey ,i bookmark tons of sites i never get to,but shoemoney aint one of them thanks to non boring fresh honest fun content,which is well targetted to the likeminded visiting crowd.

     
    @October 15, 2007 7:04 pm
    mpcovcd Says:

    I can live with out these blogs - but I CANT live ONLINE without these blogs…

    Shoemoney.com
    MilovPatel.com
    JohnChow.com
    SitePoint.com
    DigitalPoint.com

    @October 15, 2007 10:53 pm
    Brian Mark Says:

    You listed 4 sites I’ve never been to. Am I really missing out in my online life?

     
    @October 16, 2007 12:13 am
    lyricsreg Says:

    Who in the world is Milov Patel ?

     
     

    [...] In response to Rand’s article about the 5 sites he could not live without, I decided that sites you could live without are more interesting if you think about it. A lot of them are fun and great resources but when it comes down to it they can be production killers and time wasters. Even Shoe got in on this one. [...]

     
    @October 15, 2007 7:10 pm
    TylerC Says:

    What about the sites you could live without?

     
    @October 15, 2007 7:13 pm

    It be hard to go without online banking. Who gets paper statements anymore?

     
    @October 15, 2007 7:22 pm
    IamJustinM Says:

    Actually he did add…
    (or at least, couldn’t earn as much without)

    I’d like to know your answer to his question, shoe.

     
    @October 15, 2007 7:59 pm

    I nominate this for the greatest blog post, no, make that the GREATEST POST EVER anywhere on the internet. Unfortunately Blogger’s Choice Awards doesn’t have that category or I would actually do it.

     
    @October 15, 2007 8:21 pm
    browie Says:

    I don’t think there are any websites that I couldn’t live without. Keyword is live.

    I like my internet hobby.

     
    @October 15, 2007 8:22 pm

    HaHaHa. Keepin it Real.

     
    @October 15, 2007 8:26 pm
    Ritu Says:

    my 5 webpages that I can’t live without
    Shoemoney Home, Shoemoney Forums, Shoemoney Marketplace, Shoemoney Photos and Shoemoney Advertising.

    Now thats what we call ButtKissing! Now gimme a link back ;-)

     
    @October 15, 2007 8:29 pm
    remo Says:

    My 5:
    Lifehacker.com
    Drudgreport.com
    Shoemoney.com
    bloglines.com
    Technorati.com

     
    @October 15, 2007 8:30 pm

    My online translation tools… life would be much more difficult..and I would have to study more… (;_;;;;;

     
    @October 15, 2007 9:49 pm
    John Loch Says:

    Haha.. got me. I thought it was a typo. :)

     
    @October 16, 2007 12:45 am
    Rhys Says:

    There’s a few websites I cannot live without as a single hetrosexual man. Unfortunately I can’t list them here. Family website and all ;)

     
    @October 16, 2007 1:53 am

    Well, that was a nice list, but i guess for me it would be DP(DigitalPoint) and techmeme.

    Thats about it..including gmail ofcourse! :)

     
    @October 16, 2007 2:14 am

    Google, Gmail

     
    @October 16, 2007 5:25 am

    I can’t see the list. Where is it? ;)

    @October 16, 2007 12:49 pm
    The Dino Says:

    I have the same poblem

     
     
    @October 16, 2007 6:01 am

    Oh, and ShoeMoney (but that’s just a given right ;) )

     
    @October 16, 2007 6:25 am

    Now that’s a nice list, I must confess I’ve highlighted the text to check if there was something hidden… :p
    I can’t live without my PC, that’s for sure, and probably without some of my websites, but then again I read this and that every now and then, but I don’t have that kind of list…

     
    @October 16, 2007 6:51 am

    Without websites, I would be a lumber jack by choice ;)

     
    @October 16, 2007 7:24 am
    Archos 605 Says:

    Yea well put, saying you can’t “live without” a website is a bit ott…

     
    @October 16, 2007 8:06 am

    lmao I know. I could live without any website. One thing I couldn’t live without with is money though, if I was a millionaire I would just be on the beach in jamacia or something about 60% of my time and then the rest spent working on new projects.

     
    @October 16, 2007 10:28 am
    King Jacob Says:

    I couldn’t live without howtobreath.com

     
    @October 16, 2007 10:50 am
    Al Link Says:

    It’s nice to be here. The one and only site I can’t live without is Google.com.

     
    @October 16, 2007 10:52 am