TOP fitness sites

Internet is not only about our digital lives it can also have direct consequences on our "physical" lives. Especially with the sites aimed at improving our shapes, tracking our performances, following our work-out routine! We have created on Rankmill.com, a TOP 10 fitness sites based on the ranking created by The Times.

The #1 selected by The Times' team is the very innovative nikeplus.com  (put a computer and a spy in your shoes). The interest of that site is that - provided you have the equipped shoes - everything is done automatically to give you information about your runs. It is also a kind of "social tools" to compare your performances with others. Probably one of the better way to have a clear view on what will be intelligent objects in the near future.

The only problem is that is still works only for running. If you prefer to bike or to swim you can find more or less the same services on bikely.com (#2) and wildswimming.co.uk (#10), but you will have to enter the data manually. However, I guess it should not take so long to see built-in technologies for all kind of sports. For instance, it is just beginning for gym with gymtechnik.com (#10) : provided your gym has wifi, you can now follow your progress with your iphone, BB or Android phone.

You can also find more classical fitness sites in this Top list :

- community of interest (gimme20.com #6, dailyburn.com #5),

-tutorials (excellent ones on menshealth.co.uk #3)

- and even music for your work out sessions (djsteveboy.com/podrunner.html #4)!

You can of course create very easily your own Top list, add more items, some comments, videos and images!

TOP musical biopics

Hollywood has always loved to make films from biographies of famous people, and since early on : the film generally considered as the first biopic is "Disraeli", released in 1927. Since the beginning of the 80's the movement is however bigger and bigger. To the point that a sous-genre has even emerged : the musical biopic.

With their classical script : rise from poverty, success, excess, fall, death or comeback; musical biopics tend to easily fell in common traps. However, when the director has a real empathy and understanding of the musician, when the script is a little bit more original than usually, some musical biopics are pure masterworks and could be included in Top movie lists, whatever the genre. Moreover, their soundtracks are unbeatable : it is hard to compete with Mozart, Dylan, Charlie Parker or Johnny Cash!

We have created a Top 12 Musical Biopics list on Rankmill.com, from "Amadeus" our number 1 to "The Rose" our number 12. You can, of course, eaisly create your own ranking, add more items, include video, comments and images. And when it is done, why not to share it?

TOP Places to go in 2010

The New York Times published a dream list of places where to go in 2010. With excellent comments from their journalists, 31 destinations all over the world are scrutinized.  Big cities ( #3 Seoul, #11 Los Angeles, #12 Shangai, # 13 Mumbai, #19 Istanbul), ski resorts (#23 Breckenridge, #27 Kitzbuhel), beaches  (#8 Cesme, #14 Minorca, #18 Bahia),  small european towns (#5 Copenhagen, #10 Leipzig) or even entire regions or countries (#1 Sri Lanka, # 2 Patagonia Wine Country, #9 Antartica, #30 South Africa), whatever your kind of holidays you should find your happiness in this Top list. Our preference goes to the "hidden gems", these wonderful destinations, often small, not so known yet : especially #24 Montenegro and #29 Gargano.

In order for you to create your own ranking and to add places not included in this precious TOP, we have created the TOP places where to in 2010 on Rankmill.com. You can then easily have a full view of the Top, add comments, add destinations and above all share with others! There is also a Google map which will show you how far you will have to travel to reach them!

TOP 10 Worst album cover 2009

Rankings and Tops are not only made for positive things, i.e. "best" so and so. It also works perfectly for "worst" things. At Rankmill we even wonder if Tops of "worst" are not a better way to define oneself and to find true soul brothers. Prefixmag.com has created a very funny example of such a worst list : The TOP worst album covers of 2009. Based on their list, we created our own, in order for you to have the possibility to make your own list and to share it. You can even add other covers if you think the choice is too limited and that a masterpiece of that category is missing!

We already created a list of Top best album covers, and most of the times these great covers also correspond to great albums. As we haven't had the opportunity to listen all the albums mentionned by Prefixmag, we do not know if that rule works both ways. Apparently no reading their comments, they consider some albums mentionned in their list as great albums. Whatever, their choice is particularly sharp. Where the hell were A.D. of these record companies when the final decision for covers was made? Perhaps, after all, that these covers were imposed by the artists and that you can be a great and accomplished musician, and still have a incredible lack of taste for design and images? Or that our tastes, at rankmill.com and prefixmag.com, are quite standard and classical. In such a case perhaps will we find these covers wonderful in 3 years... Be your own judge and create your Top!

Our definite #1 is "Walking on a dream" by Empire of the Sun : the cover would be perfect for an add  for "Holiday on Ice meets Siegfried and Roy", the Las Vegas magicians. It will be hard to beat it in 2010!

TOP biggest financials scandals of 2009

2009 was probably a exceptionnal year for many things, including financial scandals. Forbes.com has then decided to end this bitter year on a bitter note with the creation of a Top biggest financial scandals of the year. The # 1 is obviously, and by far, the Madoff scandal. It could even be the biggest financial scandal of ever. Its scale is so big that even the #2, the Stanford Financial fallout, with 8 billions dollars of vanished money, seems "small" in comparison. #3 is the classical insider trading case, the Galleon scandal.

We could wonder why in that Top appears the name of Tiger Woods. As far as we know nobody was crooked by that affair.

As our knowledge is not that big for financial scandals, you can easily add items to this Top, with comments and pictures!

TOP Xbox 360 games of 2009

The global market of the game industry has now reached almost 50% of the movie industry market. It is not surprising to see, as for movies, rankings of the best new products of the year. The blog testfreaks.com has recently created its Top 11 best of 2009 Xbox360. You have now the possibility to give your own ranking on Rankmill.com and to share it with other fans!

Top Technologies that will rock 2010

After a look at the past with our TOP 10 products, services and technologies of the decade, let's focus on the future! The internet site globalthougtz.com has published their forecast for the Top 10 trends of 2010. Their prediction is a very interesting mix of usage, devices, and infrastructure : it covers all the aspects of our digital life. According to who you are : average techno user, geek, company, your ranking may vary quite a bit. You can create your own Top and share it with others here.

Top devices :

Apple Tablet (#1):  expected by many, feared by competitors, this brand new product could rock 2010 if it brings as many novelties as the Iphone. It could create a new category of devices which would enable us to have a better usage of the Internet and more mobility.

Netphone (#2) : The Iphone has deeply changed the way we use both the Internet and our mobile phones. However, it is still a very low share of the total mobile phones market and it is expensive for most people. With the new Google phone and other competitors' products we could see a very significant increase of smartphones if we have the possibility to easily access VOIP with them.

Top usages :

Online TV (#6) and Mobile transaction (#10). These trends confirm that, more and more, we do things with our mobile and on our PC that we used to do somewhere else or with other devices. For TV, if it is really easy to have access to it on the Internet, it is still difficult to have the same quality and richness of programs. Many broadcasters are still reluctant to give access to their images on something else than the good old TV set. With the success of Hulu and Youtube, globalthougtz.com predicts that all these broadcasters will soon increase their offer and then create a much wilder usage of online TV.

For mobile transaction, there are so many new applications and possibilities that we could expect the beginning of the end of credit cards in 2010, if security matters are definitely solved.

Infrastructure and "hard technology":

Virtualization (#5) and Cloud Computing (#7). These "new" technologies are certainly less visible for users on a day to day basis. But the merit of this Top is to remind us that with the possibilities they create of a better management of hardware ressources and increase of flexibility, companies can benefit from the Internet on a much bigger scale. The more they do it, the more competitive and agile they will be and the more wealth they will create.

What is your own ranking?

Find other related techno Tops here.