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Napster  No new Web service of the past six
months has been as mind-boggling or thought-provoking as this online music site/service/software, which lets you
tap into the PCs of all other Napster users currently online to search through and copy the MP3 music files they’ve
collected while you share your own. The ramifications for copyright violation, security, and even online sociology
are huge and will take quite a while to sort out, but in the meantime it’s an astonishingly easy-to-use and well-crafted
setup that has captured the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of high-bandwidth Web users (most are in college)
who are sharing a rapidly growing pool of songs that has already surged past the 2-terabyte mark.
Club Photo  Of all the places to post and share
your photos online, Club Photo, a Editors’ Choice, is the best. Its interface makes it easy to deal with many photos
at a time, whether you want to create albums or send them out via e-mail. Additionally, the site’s Album-to-Go
download lets you view your photos on a Palm device.
seeUthere  Like its archrival, the excellent Evite.com,
seeUthere helps you organize events online, but it also tackles larger-scale meetings and includes tools for ticketing.
That means you can use it for things like charity fund-raisers, conferences, and reunions and you can make contact
with your list of invitees via fax, letter, postcard, or e-mail. People can RSVP by phone, and the site can handle
credit card transactions. (There are fees for all these services.) Reporting tools are very strong, so you can
easily keep track of how your event is shaping up. The site is another example of how the Web is simplifying tasks
that can be particularly onerous to perform the old-fashioned way.
Shutterfly  Digital online photo
processing is big news these days. Among the many sites that can help you manage your digital photos and sell you
prints of them as well, Shutterfly--whose services will also be available through many partners--does the best
job so far, especially with image uploading, a process that can be tedious at many other sites.
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