All My Faves

All My Faves Argentina - We’re psyched about our most recent country homepage for Argentina! This, along with All My Faves’ country pages for Brazil and Mexico pushes the visual search concept deeper into Latin America. Argentina, a country well known for its meat, its yummy Alfajores cookies and the FC Barcelona soccer legend Lionel Messi, is the newest addition to the All My Faves family.

The Argentinian homepage includes a visual showcase of the top online resources for Argentinian citizens, and as always, our team of human editors worked very hard to make sure only the best websites are listed for easy web navigation. So please give a big warm welcome to allmyfaves.com.ar – Vamos!

All My Faves Russia – It took us a lot of work and research, but the Russian homepage we’ve been working on is now live! As with our other non-US homepages, the allmyfaves.ru serves as the ultimate homepage for Russian users, both domestic and international.

The page includes the most popular categories Russian users look for and visit on a daily basis. These include the obvious email, video, news and entertainment categories, but also interesting categories such as Books, Finance and Travel, just to name a few. All My Faves’ homepage for Russia marks a special milestone in our country-specific homepages list and we’re very pleased to be able to offer the best of the Web to the Russian community worldwide!

All My Faves NPO – We are excited to announce the launch of All My Faves’ brand new Non-Profit Organization page (NPO). There is nothing quite like it on the Web and our team of editors had painstakingly reviewed and filtered out the most reliable and effective NPOs out there to create this special page.

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Our games team is constantly hard at work to test and pick out the very best online games for you. Now, more than ever our games page offers lots of cool game categories to choose from with five brand new addicting game themes. The first is the revamped Kids category focusing on fun games that bolster skill and creativity development to keep the little ones happy and engaged (suitable for elementary school ages and up).

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The following is a guest post I wrote on behalf of All My Faves for Synapses, an insightful blog by the lovely Dan Fonseca.

In recent years, as the World Wide Web became mankind’s main communication channel, there has been an interesting shift in the predominance of textual content. More specifically, textual content in mainstream media has been increasingly gravitating towards a more visualized direction. This is not to say textual content or words are a dying breed. Rather, the visual evolution of content -in the form of animated videos, interactive maps and infographics- is emerging primarily in circumstances where complicated knowledge or data need to be understood in a fast and clear manner.

Below I will present several examples of recent visual content forms on the Web, showing how graphic based information achieves immediate understanding and internalization of ideas and processes. These exclude common practical iconizations used for daily routine efficiencies (signs, conventional maps, etc).

1. Visualizing Bloodtests

This example is a knock-out in terms of both aesthetics and functionality. Created by the talented team over at Information is Beautiful, Visualizing Bloodtests is the ultimate data-into-info example, and there’s no wonder why this visualization scored the 1st place in Wired Mag’s re-envisioning medical data design competition.
The original piece of content is a standard bloodtest data document. Doctors can make out what it means, but what about the patient whose blood was tested? It’s virtually impossible to comprehend what’s going on there, and this concerns someones’ life!

Now see the magic of infographics (thanks to Information is Beautiful), turning the incomprehensible document above into an easy to digest content:

2. GapMinder World’s Health & Wealth of Nations Interactive Graph

This interactive graph was created by GapMinder so as to “unveil the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics.” The Health & Wealth of Nations shows the changes in humanity’s lifespan and lifetime earnings over time, starting in 1800. It’s an amazing visualization that takes dry numbers of data and turns them into an engaging presentation that laypersons like you and me can understand easily. By the way, GapMinder’s software Trendalyzer  is so amazing that Google acquired it in 2007.
Click the screen shot below to go to the interactive graph’s page and hit Play.

3. Web Search – AllMyFaves.com

What does the phrase ‘Web search’ make you think of? Probably Google, right? There’s no doubt the search giant is excellent at what it does, and its efficient search algorithms had enabled the company to enter an already inundated Web search market back in 2000 and take it by storm. However, at the end of the day Google’s search service, however sophisticated it may be, is based on word indexes. You must type in key words to find what you are looking for, and then you must read each result entry to identify its relevancy to your search. The byproduct of this process is what has come to be known as “search fatigue.” Another byproduct is spam and malware hot spots, disguised as credible search results.

AllMyFaves.com has identified the shortcomings of standard Web search and offers an innovative alternative: icon-based gateway to Web navigation and site discovery. The AllMyFaves.com homepage lists all the most popular and practical categories relevant to most users, and each category displays the top 10 websites of that field in the form of the site or company’s logo. Based on the same premise of the infogrpahic, allmyfaves.com delivers quick access to information and services provided by familiar sources and brands, immediately recognizable by their logos.

In addition to the homepage you will also find AllMyFaves’ designated pages for Blogs, Business, Education, Entertainment, Games, Kids, Shopping and Travel. AllMyFaves’ recent tool, the Mini Faves, is a personalization tool inviting users to create their very own visual homepage that includes all of their bookmarks and favorites. Here’s my personal Mini Faves page as an example.

If you would like to create your own Mini Faves page and have all your bookmarks and favorites in one easy page, join AllMyFaves now.

To wrap things up, I think you will agree; visual information is taking a strong hold over the Web and for a good reason. In an era when information flows to and fro at incredible speed, we are bombarded with RSS feeds, news articles, emails and many other content forms on a daily basis. Thanks to visual aids such as infographics, interactive graphs and many other forms of content with a visual approach, making sense of the world just got a whole lot easier.

*Recommended links and sources: Cool Infographics, AllMyFaves.com, Infographics Mini page,
“Conventional Data is Boring. Make Way for the Infographic,” AllMyFaves Blog. Jan 20, 2011.

We’ve got a brand new Academics MiniFaves page I’d like to share with you, and you can find it on our Education page – simply click on the Academics faveline title. This new addition offers an expanded collection of academic-related resources, from universities admission info and college-level writing aids to citing how-to’s, video classes, scholarly journal resources, and lots of other useful sites in-between.

So now that we’ve studied hard, it’s time to take a break and do a 180 turn to celebrity gossip. Although this isn’t a newly added page, it’s possible you haven’t come across our Gossip MiniFaves page yet. Think People and Perez Hilton are the only sites worth checking out to keep up with the stars? Think again. In this MiniFaves page you will find more than 30 different top sites packed with celebrity photos, fashion trends and yes, hookup updates. In short, all the juicy details worth knowing about Hollywood’s young and beautiful people.

All My Faves, the chosen visual homepage of over 5 million users worldwide just got better! We have completed our transition to the new design to create an even better All My Faves experience, on our homepage, the site’s various content pages and on your personalized MyFaves pages. This is hot news, and we’ve even published a press release letting the world know. Here’s a quick peep of the homepage’s new look:

So what does the new design mean to you? Well, first and foremost, the revamped website and the new menus give you quick and easy access to all the content available on AllMyFaves. In addition, we’ve made the entire collection of our designated Mini Faves pages available to you in one easy menu click. Whatever area you are interested in, simply hover over ‘Mini Faves’ and the entire list will appear (ordered alphabetically) – see it below.

Looking for some of the pages you loved visiting in the previous design version of All My Faves? You can find them all, simply hover your mouse over ‘Categories’ and you will get to your favorite games, blogs, education, business, entertainment pages in no time.

Go ahead and play with the newly designed allmyfaves.com site, and see how it feels. For any sort of feedback, please do drop us a line and tell us what’s on you mind – we’d love to hear it: info@allmyfaves.com

As any tech savvy woman knows, you just gotta have the best to be the best! And that’s what I’ve selected in this fabulous list: 12 of my absolute fave gadgets and tech items for us girls. I hope you enjoy them. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

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We have recently added new useful faevlines and Mini pages for you to explore on allmyfaves.com. We’re excited about these new additions and I thought I’d present these to you here. Let’s begin, shall we?

Cable TV Mini page. This is one of the most comprehensive cable TV resources you can find online. You’ll find here all the official websites of major channels, including less mainstream yet equally entertaining cable TV ones so you can satisfy all your TV entertainment needs. Get your favorite show’s schedule, see upcoming shows and movies, watch videos of interviews with the stars, independent films and trailers, and lots of more great content, conveniently located in one place. To access the Cable TV Mini page click here, or go to the Entertainment page and hit ‘TV.”

Lifestyle Faveline and Mini Page. This unique collection of lifestyle websites will make you motivated, inspired and energized, and it’s one of my personal favorites. The faveline includes a top-notch lineup of insightful websites and blogs addressing better and healthier living, great food, tips for a saner state of mind in a busy, chaotic world, style and culture, and great hacks for a soothing atmosphere at home.

You can access the Lifestyle faveline by going to Blogs and scrolling down alphabetically to “L.” Clicking the faveline’s title will prompt you the Mini Faves page where you will find many more better living resources you don’t want to miss!

Brand New Games Faveline: Flight. Airplanes, flight simulators, landing strips – we’ve got it all here in this fresh-out-of-the-box faveline and category page, especially for you! We’ve got Naval Strike, Sim Air Traffic, Helistorm 2 and many many others! Roger that.

In addition to the Best Sites of 2010 voting event, All My Faves also held a Best Games of 2010 competition. You played them throughout the year, and your votes nailed down the 40 nominees to 10 winners. Here they are (click the images to play them again):

Vote for the Best Games of 2010 – It’s the second year now that we’ve been keeping the ‘Best of the year’ voting tradition, and even though the voting for the Best Sites of 2010 is already closed (winners will be announced later today), the voting event for the Best Games of 2010 will continue until Wednesday, December 29.

Although all 40 game finalists are awesome and addicting, only 10 will score the winning title. “Like” your top game choices and help to make a difference! See all top 40 nominees in the image below, but be sure to click it and go to the actual page to vote. Play on!

Wishing you an especially Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Promising new and sweet surprises on allmyfaves.com in 2011…