Why do so many big-name webpages use automatic slideshows? Does ANYBODY--and I mean, ANYBODY out of 6 billion people on earth--sit and watch auto-refreshing slideshows?

Damn, there's a lot of youtube clones out there.

Yeah, good question. And why do so many big websites have utterly crazy URL structures? That PC Mag URL above is among the worst I've seen. What's with this?

/0,1206,l=213934&s=25234&a=213919,00.asp

instead of

/2007/08/top-100-undiscovered-web-sites

I guess it's the website revision systems (CMSs) they use. But it's still surprising that big CMSs haven't caught onto nice URLs.

This is a pretty neat list, although I would think meebo and kiva are more "discovered" than the others. I agree with the amie st and indeed picks. But more than five food related sites? And is whoissick.com? Social networking for the sick; maybe there's value in that...

Some of those companies should have thought more about their name before setting up shop.

so far I see iminlikewithyou.com and likebetter.com. woot!

Iminlikewithyou.com is invite only. If you've been invited, it's not undiscovered. If you haven't been invited, then discovering it does nothing for you. This suggests to me that either pcmag people aren't very clever, or (more likely) this is work of a PR firm.