60 Favorite Links

Here is a list of sites that I find helpful or interesting.

Podcasts

Creating Wealth – Jason Hartman teaches listeners about investing in income properties to increase your wealth and become financially independent.

Entrepreneur on Fire – Actionable interviews with inspiring entrepreneurs 7 days a week.

The Naked Scientists – weekly discussion on science news and Q&A from across the pond.

Mac Break Weekly – a great video show about Macs from TWiT.

Favorite Websites

Astronomy Picture of the Day – An interesting space photo each day from NASA.

TWiT – great video and audio shows about technology.

Revision3 – more cool internet shows on technology and video games.

Delicious – My go-to social bookmarking site.

ThisWeekIn – A network of great online video shows with a lot of interesting content including This Week in Startups which interviews entrepreneurs and discusses entrepreneurship.

Audible – A great marketplace for audiobooks. Listening to audiobooks during your commute or workouts can help you get a lot more reading done.

Shelfari – Where I keep track of the books I’ve read or plan to read.

Goodreads – A great book sharing social site.

AppSumo – Deals on business apps, tools, and online courses.

Four Hour Workweek Blog – Tim Ferriss’ interesting blog of hacks and life tips.

How Stuff Works A great source for fascinating articles and videos on tons of interesting topics.

43 Things is a free online tool that helps you set and manage your life goals.

Hulu – Good place to watch recent big network shows which can help replace cable.

New York Times Popular Stories – top stories from the real life Daily Planet.

Veritas News – Investigative journalism on consumer protection issues.

Online Training

Code School – Videos and interactive training for web development.

Coursera – Take college courses for free from leading universities with an opportunity to earn certificates.

Creative Live – free live courses on photography and design.

Lynda.com – tons of great premium video lectures on design to programming to Excel.

Skillshare – A marketplace of online and in-person project-based classes.

Treehouse – Web programming and mobile training courses.

Tuts Premium – A library of courses and eBooks for learning web development and graphic design.

Udacity – free college level courses on science and engineering topics like computer programming and statistics.

Udemy – A marketplace of free and paid online courses from leading experts in various fields.

Talks, Lectures, and Interviews

Mixergy – Provides awesome video interviews of successful entrepreneurs by Andrew Warner that provides specific details on how people built successful companies.

Khan Academy – Thousands of video lectures on topics from statistics to economics to algebra.

Academic Earth A great place to watch tons of college lectures from schools like Harvard on a wide range of subjects from psychology to computer science.

Inbound University – Several free courses on inbound marketing taught by leaders in online marketing.

Google Talks – Hundreds of inspiring and educational talks from authors and leaders.

Rise to the Top – Over 300 useful video interviews with entrepreneurs, experts, and influencers by David Siteman Garland.

TED.com – hundreds of inspiring and educational videos of talks at the TED conference.

Marketing

Google Analytics IQ Lessons – Free Google training for learning Google Analytics and preparing for the Google Analytics Certification.

Inbound.org – A great place to find the best recent inbound marketing articles as voted on by the community

Cool Marketing Stuff – recommended resources, books, and tools for marketers.

Social Triggers – Derek Halpern shares marketing insights based on academic research on psychology and business. His YouTube channel and podcast are terrific.

SEO

Top Online Marketing Blogs – A ranked list of online marketing blogs on based on link metrics and votes by the community.

Moz is a great resource for learning about SEO and they also have some useful tools.

Search Engine Land – articles on the latest SEO news.

Ross Hudgens – thoughtful analysis of the SEO industry.

Design

Kuler – A useful tool for creating and sharing color combinations.

Themeforest – My favorite place for premium WordPress themes.

Subtle Patterns – A great source of website background patterns for free.

Tuts Premium – Affordable design courses online from Photoshop to web development.

Smashing Magazine – An awesome design blog providing inspiration and tutorials.

CSS Tricks – Cool advanced tricks for utilizing CSS for beautiful Web design.

VectorTuts – Great tutorials for creating awesome vector graphics with Illustrator.

Graphicriver – A marketplace for great vector graphics from many talented graphic artists. Graphics typically cost $1-$5.

Entypo – Free creative commons icon fonts.

Sonics

Sonicsgate – The Webby award winning documentary about the Sonics exodus from Seattle after 41 years.

Non-Profits

Charity: Water – 100% of public donations go to water projects to provide people with clean drinking water.

Kiva – Give a small business loan to people in third world countries and get paid back. Rinse and repeat.

Video Games

Gog.com – Sells downloads of classic computer games like Myst and Space Quest.

Cool

Elsa Bella Baby – Check out my friend’s baby clothing shop featuring trendy baby outfits!

Clarity.fm – Connects you with experts in various fields so you can talk over the phone for a set rate per minute.

Life Listed – Danny Dover’s great bucket list blog.

Penny Arcade Expo – A leading video game conference held in Seattle every year.

ThinkGeek – Tons of awesome geek-themed products.

The Oatmeal – Funny and educational comics.

All My Tweets – This simple app will show all the Tweets on one page for any person. This is useful if you are researching an individual.