Personal Finance Forums

1. The Get Rich Slowly Forums
2. Mint.com: Personal Finance, Personal Budget, and ...
   
3. The Finance Forums
   

Link Mania: Full Tilt

Pownce - "Send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. Create a network of friends and share stuff. It's free and easy…"

Wise Bread - "Wise Bread is a community of bloggers here to help you live large on a small budget. Despite what you may have heard, you don't have to sacrifice your financial independence to enjoy life."

Tumblr - "To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.You can also look at tumblelogs as slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create."

Ma.gnolia - "How ishttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif Ma.gnolia different from other social bookmarking services? It starts with making the social side of social bookmarking work better. With contacts, groups and different ways to share bookmarks both within and outside of Ma.gnolia, we make working together on a casual basis or more formal projects fun and easy."

Webmonkey - "Webmonkey is an online resource for web developers. Here, you'll find tutorials, tips and advice for designing and building websites and programming web applications. We have articles for beginners, professionals, students, grandparents, bloggers and programmers of all skill levels."

Internet Public Library - "The IPL is many things:
* the first public library of and for the Internet community
* an experiment, trying to discover and promote the most effective roles and contributions of librarians to the Internet and vice versa
* a group of highly talented, creative, strong-willed people, working hard"

blip.tv - "We've got a great service for great shows. A new class of entertainment is emerging that is being made by the people without the support of billion-dollar multinationals. Our mission is to support these people by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or Internet TV producer tends to run into. We'll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. We leave you free to focus on creativity."

Seesmic - "Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect online through video conversation. It's so easy: record a video directly on Seesmic's website, mobile phone or upload an existing video straight from your computer or link to a video posted on a social network. Join the Seesmic community and experience a new way to express yourself, make friends, join in active conversations, and engage in real interactions with real people."

FriendFeed - "FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends."

Some General Tips for Switch to Mac From Windows

Music, co-op games the dominant trends at E3

Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent

8 Cool Things You Can Do With Your iPhone 2.0

Link Mania: Full Tilt

SmallNotebook.org - encouragement for a simple home

My Two Dollars - personal finance blog

I Will Teach You To Be Rich - personal finance blog

Wallet Pop - money and finance website by AOL

Consumerism Commentary - personal finance blog

Money Blog Network - personal finance blog network

PokerNews.com - independent online poker authority

Scour - innovative search engine that allows users to vote and comment on relevancy of results

Restaurant.com - "Restaurant.com helps restaurant owners promote the new and unique aspects of their restaurants while providing diners with great value in a fun, new and cost effective way"

ConsumerReports.org - "working for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and empowering consumers to protect themselves"

Startcooking.com - learn the absolute basics of cooking, with short cooking videso and step-by-step photo tutorials

Energy Star - program to help people save money and protect the environment thorugh energy efficient products and practices

Reclaim Your Time: 20 Great Ways to Find More Free Time

Hidden Price Increases at the Grocery Store

How To Save on Your Energy Bill

Link Mania: The Simple Dollar

Trent quitting his job and becoming a full time writer:

• I Quit
• Early Reflections on a Career Change
• Reflections on Abandoning the 9 to 5, Four Months In

Other articles:

• Planning for the Long Haul: My Family's Lifetime Financial Plan
• Welcome to the Public Domain
• Ten Tactics for Improving Your Luck
• The One Skill That Will Earn You Money, No Matter What You Do
• The Minimalist Kitchen: What You Need to Set Up Your First Workable Home Kitchen
• What Individual Stocks Would I Invest In for the Long Haul?
• Money Magazine's "7 Investments You Need Now," Portfolio Theory, and My Own Plans for the Future
• Twelve Ways to Make Your Car a Better Investment
• How To Write an Effective Thank You Note for Any Occasion
• My Entrepreneurial Inspiration
• The Bogleheads Have Won: Dipping My Toes Into A Mutual Fund With Vanguard
• The Chorus of Voices for index Funds
• The Essential Bookshelf: The Only Eight Books I've Kept (After Hundreds of Reviews)
• How to Get Personal and Professional Value from Idle Web Surfing
• The Five Ps: Breaking Down Big Dreams Into Little Steps
• What I Read to Keep Up on Personal Finance

Links found on The Simple Dollar:

• Angies List - A word-of-mouth network for consumers (on service companies)
• The Home Depot Know-How Center - "Your destination for home improvement resources"
• Green Panda Treehouse - blog about money
• Twelve Top Personal Finance Podcast via Get Rich Slowly
• College Money Network - group of personal finance blogs run by college students, grad students, and recent grads

Link Mania: Emergency Fund

How and Why to Start an Emergency Fund - (via Get Rich Slowly)

21 Strategies for Creating an Emergency Fund... - (via zenhabits)

Building an emergency fund - (via Bankrate.com)

Why You Need an Emergency Fund - (via Kiplinger.com)

Emergency Funds - (via About.com)

Lifehacker Top Five

The following are five Lifehacker articles or discussions that I found useful and interesting:

1. Top 10 Modern Life Survival Skills

2. Top 10 Computer Annoyances and How to Fix Them

3. How Priorities Make Things Happen

4. How to Hack a Technical Job Interview

5. Best Video Feeds?

Link Mania: Half Tilt

One Hundred Pushups - six week training program that helps you complete 100 consecutive push ups

MindMeister - "MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions."

Scour - social search engine

switchAbit - routes content to multiple social services

The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1

7 Steps To Developing A Strong Network In Case You Get Fired

Five Signs That You're Living Beyond Your Means

10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas

7 Super Snacks That Heal

Financial Help from The Simple Dollar

1. 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend

2. Building Your Own Monthly Net Worth Calculator Using A Spreadsheet

3. Shared Dreams: How My Wife and I Got on the Same Financial Page

4. Why I'm Not Panicking - And You Shouldn't, Either

Link Mania: Full Tilt

Topix - news community

Mahalo - human-powered search engine

InformationWeek - business technology news, reviews, and blogs

Miro - free, open source internet TV and video player

SurveyMonkey.com - online survey software

1 World 2 Wheels - "Change the World. Pledge to Go By Bike."

Scribus - open source desktop publishing

Lively by Google - new interactive chat experience

MIT Open Courseware - free lecture notes, exams, and videos

How Stuff Works - "award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works"

Live Search Health - "Discover and act on (Web) health results powered by Microsoft HealthVault"

Posterous - "Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us... and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog."

Media Matters for America - "Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

Tech News Roundup

Noteworthy technology news from the New York Times:

Amazon Plans an Online Store for Movies and TV Shows

Nintendo and Sony Unveil Games

Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint