This is so far a limited, personal collection but it is a fast-growing one. Keep coming back!

Should there be anything wrong with an entry, please, let me know! I will be glad to correct it.
If you think I have ommitted you in an unjust way, tell me! I will put you in.
Note: an entry can appear in several categories.

Notes and news

3 Apr 2011: Discontinued all links to GoDaddy on this website because he (Bob Parson) kills elephants.

Organizations, Committees, Standards

• CERT at Carnegie Mellon University. A public research center dealing with internet security.
• CIS (Center for Internet Security), an initiative for basic operational security benchmarks.
• Computer Security Laboratory at University of California.
• W3C consortium. Maintains all the HTML, XHTML, XML, ... formats.
  Non-profit organization and a generous source of first-hand information.
• W3C MathML. Home of the Math markup language.

Internet freedom issues:

• Save the Internet. Beware of Big Brother. Join the fight for freedom.

Journals, eZines, News, ...

• Click-Z. An e-Zine concentrating on search engines.
• Dr.Dobb's Portal. A computer-oriented eZine which carries also articles on internet technology.
• Internet.com. The internet technology network.
• Komtoo, an interesting Directory.
• Net-Ads. e-Zine, development tools and much more!.
• WWW Journal. An eZine discontinued in 1997. The site still contains a lot of useful information.
• Web Pro News. Good content mixed with advertisememnt.

Link italiani:

• Blog di Sergio Maistrello che si occupa della "parte abitata della rete".
• PC World. Rivista italiana dedicata a tutto quanto gira attorno ai computer.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Directories, ...

• CIE, Connected: an Internet Encyclopedia. Old (2001) but still worth a look.
• FOLDOC. Free on-line Dictionary of Computing.
• Internet.com. An e-Zine and a Directory.
• Open Directory Project. The famous, human-edited dmoz.org directory with 4M entries.
  They supply links to a lot of search engines.
• Virus Encyclopedia at Grisoft AVG.
• Webopedia. Free computer and internet encyclopedia.
• Wikipedia. Possibly the best information source.

Articles, manuals, online books and other info

• DevArticles. Articles for software developers.
• Basic web page layout & design, A tutorial at Uni Albany.
• DOM Document Object Model Level-2 Core Specification.
• DevArticles. Mountains of articles oriented to developers.
• DOM on Wikipedia.
• Google sitemaps XML protocol.
• Google RSS directory. Hundreds of quality links.
• Google HTML, XML, ... directory. Hundreds of quality links.
• Guide to Computer Training Resources.
• Hackers: history and links.
• High Page Rank sites on Wikipedia.
• HTML Help from the Web Design Group.
  Manuals for HTML, CSS, etc. On-line site validations!
• HTML Charsets. A table edited by Stan Sykora.
• HTML Entities and their Glyphs. A table edited by Stan Sykora.
• Internet Law on legal definitions.
• JavaScript on Wikipedia.
• META tags. A well done list.
• Net-Ads. e-Zine, articles, development tools and much more!.
• O'Reilly's wonderful collection of What is ... articles at XML.com.
• Articles, a PHP tutorial, and a free PHP Book by Paul Hudson.
• RSS at Harvard Law. A nice resource.
• RSS: What is it. A really nice introduction.
• RSS on Wikipedia.
• Security articles at Window Security. A huge collection.
• Security articles at Matt's Web Worlds. A huge collection - and not just Unix.
• Shareware Developers. This is not what it seems (shareware is no longer what it used to be).
  The site now carries articles on hundreds of topics. Look up the web and internet categories.
• Site Reference. Accent on search engine position and marketing.
• Style Sheets. Collection of articles on cascading style sheets.
• Tutorials by Olfa Nasraoui (Uni Luisville). Articles about Web mining and WWW personalization.
• W3C consortium. HTML, XHTML, XML, ... manuals, reference information, etc...
• W3C MathML. Official home of the Math markup language.
• W3C Schools. Complete web building tutorials. Start from here. It is ALL FREE.
• W3C Tips. Important up-to-date information. Part of the W3C Quality Assurance site.
• W3Schools. Highly recommended self-learning website!
• Web-Database Programming: CGI and Java Servlets. A tutorial at Uni Stanford.
• What is ASP. An introduction with examples.
• XUL Ajax and all it uses (JavaScript, DOM, CSS, RSS, ...).

Testi Italiani:

• Posizionamento Web. Guida al posizionamento nei motori di ricerca.

Links for Navigators

Browsers (all browser downloads are free):

• Internet Explorer IE7 downloads (XP, beta 3).
• Amaya W3C open-source browser/editor.
• Internet Explorer IE7 download italiano (XP, beta 3).
• Internet Explorer IE7; international sites.
• Internet Explorer IE6 downloads.
• Internet Explorer IE6 downloads, versione italiana.
• Firefox from Mozilla, version 1.5.
• Firefox for all systems (Windows, Linus, Mac) and languages.
• Netscape 8.1.
• OmniWeb 5 for Mac OS X.
• Opera 9.00 for Windows. English and international versions. Also Opera Mini and Mobile.
• Opera for all operating systems.

Search engines:

• A9 is an amazon.com company.
• All the Web says find it all.
• AltaVista. Relies on Yahoo but has a bit different preferences.
• AOL Search. Ranking 4th.
• Ask now merged with Teoma. Ranking 5th.
• Clusty This is much more than just a search tool.
• DMOZ Open Directory Project. The largest human-edited directory.
• eMvoy, a search engine built exclusively for US manufacturers and industry.
• Free Downloads Center, a fuge server of free software.
• Galaxy, a large directory and search engine.
• GigaBlast is among the majors. Created by Matt Wells.
• Google. The 1st one (but boy, isn't it hard to stay on top!)
• Intute. Great for Science, Technology, Arts, ... Very serious.
• Look Smart offers tree-like vertical searches.
• Lycos. I like this one.
• Metacrawler. This one crawls them ALL.
• Mirago. UK-oriented engine.
• MSN search on MSN. Ranking 3rd.
• Netscape search on Netscape.
• One Look is very good.
• Open Directory Project (DMOZ). A huge human-edited directory.
• Scirus is dedicated only to sites with scientific information.
• SciSeek is a science-oriented engine with many categories.
• Teoma now merged with Ask.
• Web Crawler. Combines several engines.
• WiseNut is one of the majors.
• Yahoo. See also dir.yahoo.com. Ranking 2nd.

Links for e-MAIL software

• Eudora is one of the oldest.
• Thunderbird download from the Mozilla site.

Links for Bloggers

• Blogger. A good place for starting a blog.
• Bloglines. All about blogging (with support).
• FotoPic. A good place where to keep your photos.
• WordPress, a free publishing platform with a focus on usability.

Links for Site Developers (other than listed above)

• ASPN, the Active State Programmer Network.
  Free access to valuable programming resources for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, and XSLT,
• Portal of BigNoseBird.Com.
  Masses of tutorials, reference materials, scripts, links, software, ...
• DevX software development portal.
• Free Country. A most valuable server of free tools for developers.
• Mozilla Developer Center. A great web programming informtion database.
  You do not need to be a Mozilla developer to appreciate this treasure trove.
• Net-Ads. e-Zine, development tools and much more!.
• Web Page Counter from TomaWeb. Freeware.
• WordPress, a free publishing platform with a focus on usability.
• Xoom. A large portal for developers and webmasters. Lots of free stuff.

Editors, site-development studios and IDE's

• AceHTML from VisiComMedia.
• Amaya W3C open-source editor and browser.
• Coffee Cup web design software.
• Cold Fusion MX7 editor package.
• First Page. 1stPage and FirstPage 2006.
• FrontPage home at Microsoft.
• FrontPage highlights.
• Free Country list of free HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, ... editors.
• Home Site version 5.5. Lean, code-only editor.
• NVU Free, open source, editor for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• Yahoo directory of HTML editors.

Scripting

• CGI scripts at BigNoseBird.Com.
• JavaScript examples. A large collection.
• Java Scripts Source. Over 2300 free scripts!.

Links for Webmasters

• AboutUs. Wiki-like guide to websites. Very useful for plain folks and spies.
• ARIN. American Registry for Internet Numbers.
• Colocation America. Colocation, dedicated server, hosting, bandwidth, iptv, voip.
• Free Country. A valuable directory of free resources for webmasters.
• Free webmaster tools directory.
• Free hosting directory.
• Public Domain Registry. Domains, hosting, whois, etc.
• RIPE (Réseau IP Européen). European Network Coordination Centre.
• RSS validation, official on-line validation tool for your RSS feed files.
• Switch. Swiss & Liechtenstein net & internet services and whois (press Cercare), etc...
• Xoom. A large portal for developers and webmasters. Lots of free stuff.

       Link italiani:

• NIC: Registrar ufficiale per Italia. Per trovare i dati di un sito, vai a Database/WHOIS.
• Register.it offre domini e hosting a 35 euro/anno. Ottima qualità.

Search engines: submitting, ranking, popularity, robots, crawlers, etc:

• About search engines ... A lot of very useful info and tools.
• Add Me! Search engines submitting and optimization, ROR maps, ...
• DMOZ. The human-edited Open Directory Project. To get listed here is worth a lot.
• Google Webmaster Help Center. General guide + articles on how Google uses sitemaps.
  Registered (or would-be registered) webmasters, start here.
• I need hits. Submitting to search engines, site statistics, uses of meta tags and other goodies.
• Link popularity. Not much beyond the link:www.mysite.ext service of most search engines.
• Ranks.NL. Website promotion; search engines optimization toolkit.
• ROR sitemaps site (has also an on-line sitemap generator).
• Scrub the Web. Limited free submitting for non-members. Many tools (e.g., free keywords checks).
• Search Engines. Lots of good info about the relation between links and SE rankings.
• Search Engine Watch. An e-Zine dedicated to search engines.
• Site maps generator. Free on-line version (<500 pages) and commercial pro stuff.
• Site Reference. Forum on search engine position and marketing.
• Submit Centre. Site-submitting and tools. Free on-line submit to 20 search engines.
• Swift Media UK. Hosting, internet marketing, search optimization, ....
• Web robots pages, directories and info.
• Websquash Technologies. Submitting to search engines, site analysis, etc.
• WordTracker. Keywords analysis. Limited free on-line trials available.
• Who links to me online service.

Web, site and visitors tracking:

• eXTReMe Tracking looks quite good.
• StatCounter. A free yet reliable invisible web tracker.

Security issues:

• AVG antivirus from Grisoft. I use this one. Click here to get the free version.
• CERT list of security information sources.
• File Recovery freeware from SoftPerfect. Supports all file systems.
• GeoTrust SSL certificates (256 bits) etc.
• GRC. Data recovery & security. Lots of free/low cost tools.
• Internet Security Systems, Inc. This is for large enterprises and institutions.
• LavaSoft Firewalls, Anti-Adware, ... free anti-spyware.
• Microsoft Security center.
• MIT Kerberos. Home page of free network authentication protocol and software.
• Norton, the Symantek antivirus software.
• Personal Firewall freeware utility from SoftPerfect..
• Security articles at Window Security. A huge collection.
• Security articles at Matt's Web Worlds. A huge collection - and not just Unix.
• Signature 995. High level protection for Internet communications.
• Spybot. Very good free anti-spyware.
• VeriSign. Web security and encryption. Lots of info.
• Virus Central. Doug Muth's Anti-Virus Resources.

Website privacy issues:

• Internet Law on legal definitions.
• P3P Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project of the W3C commission.

Siti Italiani per i webmaster:

• All Web Free. Un po' di tutto. Clicca Web master o Internet. Utility: link-popularity ed altre.
• Garante di Privacy. Esempio pratico di come impostare il trattamento di privacy del sito.
• Web Solutions. Domini a basso costo, hosting, etc.

ADVERTISING: Posting ads, renting space (publishing), banners, affiliations, ...

• All about Affiliates. Information resources about affiliate marketing.
• AdBrite. Advertizer / publisher programs.
• AdEngage. Advertizer / publisher programs.
• Chitika. Pay-per-click (PPC) and similar schemes.
• eBay affiliates program.
• Google AdSense/AdWords context-targeted scheme
  for publishers (AdSense) and advertizers (AdWords). Click Advertizing Programs.
• Half.com eBay affiliates program.
• Look Smart has advertisers and publishers programs.
• MSN AdCenter for advertizers (launched in France and USA, publishers are in beta phase).
• Net-Ads. e-Zine, development tools and much more! See the Promotion category.
• PPC Search Engine Reviews. There is not just AdWords ....
• Top Affiliate. Large affiliate programs Directory.
• Yahoo! Search Marketing. This is for advertizers.
• Yahoo! Publisher Network. This is for publishers (beta).

Starting and maintaining an e-Shop and handling payments

• 2CheckOut. Quite complete.
• Affero. Only for donations.
• BT Click&Buy. British, but with multi-national support. End Users must register on their site.
• CC Avenue in India (only Indian currency and/or dollars).
• CC Bill. Mostly bookings and services.
• CC Now. On-line shopping-mall space rent and transaction services (in dollars).
• Chronopay. Online merchant account provider based in Netherlands.
• Click Bank. On-line shopping-mall services.
• DigiBuy. On-line shopping-mall services.
• Digital Candle. On-line sofware shops and [optional] promotion. No set-up cost.
• eBay store (clicca qui per la versione italiana).
• iBill. Bookings and services.
• iKobo. Money-transfer services rather than on-line shops.
• ImagineNation. A startup?
• InstaBill. On-line shops for a fixed monthly charge.
• Jettis. On-line shops for a fixed monthly charge. Steep set-up charge.
• Kagi has teamed up with Microsoft. Nice solutions and all payment types.
• Membership Plus. Currently closed for newcomers.
• MultiCards. Moneybroker with a set-up charge. Provides an order-page.
• NoChex. Moneybroker with a set-up charge and good services.
• PayLine. Specializes in phone calls and related services.
• PayMate. Moneybroker for Australia.
• PayPal. Moneybroker with many national sites in various Countries. All types of payments!
• Process 54. Moneybroker with a set-up charge.
• Reg.Net. On-line software sales. Set-up charge.
• RegNow. On-line software sales. Set-up charge.
• RegSoft. On-line software sales. Set-up charge.
• ShareIt. On-line shareware sales. No set-up charge.
• StormPay. Moneybroker; a bit like PayPal.
• SwReg. On-line shareware sales. No set-up charge.
• Transecute. On-line shops. Very large set-up charge.
• Verotel. On-line services, bets, ....

Web-related SOFTWARE utilities (free or low-cost, unless specified otherwise)

• 123 FileConvert. PDF to/from Word converter and a versatile image format converter.
• 3D Ftp. FTP site-management software.
• VisiComMedia. ACE web editors, FTP, etc.
• City Desk from Fog Creek is a nice Web-site development and management package.
• Coffee Cup web design software.
• Cold Fusion MX7 editor package.
• EverSoft. The FirstPage site, plus lots of stuff.
• TheFreeSite. If you want anything on the web for free, start looking up this directory.
• EverSoft's Free|Pro site submitting.
• Ftp 995. Free, powerful FTP-client software.
• GetRight. Software for reliable, interruptable downloading.
• GRC. Data recovery and security. Lots of free/low-cost tools.
• jAlbum, to create photo albums on the Web.
• Java, the official site. Free download and verification.
• Java test of your currently installed java virtual machine. On-line.
• Labtam. The ProFTP software package.
• LavaSoft Firewalls, Anti-Adware, ...
• Macromedia. ColdFusion, JRun, Dreamweaver, Fireworks,etc.
• MIT Kerberos. Home page of free network authentication protocol and software.
• Mozilla software: Firefox, Camino, Thunderbird, Mozilla, Bugzilla, ...
• Omni Group software utilities for Mac OS X.
• PC Pitstop internet utilities.
• PDF Online converts documents of nearly any format to PDF. Good and free.
• Ranks.NL. Search engines optimization toolkit.
• Remote control of distant computers.
• Site maps generator. Also free on-line version.
• SoftPerfect has several very useful low-cost/free LAN and Web utilities.
• Submit Centre. Site-submitting service + tools.
• Websquash Technologies. Software for submitting to search engines, site analysis, etc.

You will also find many goodies on these software-developer sites:

• DevArticles. Collection of articles.
• MS Developers.
• Intel Developers.
• MS Java development site.
• Earth Web. Freeware, shareware,....
• Free Site. Freeware, shareware,....
• Programmers Heaven. Freeware, shareware,....
• Win Site. Freeware, shareware,....
• Software Verify. Low-priced development tools.