The ever expanding World Wide Web is growing much to fast for any of us to keep up. So incredibly fast in fact, that we must rely on sites such as Del.icio.us or Digg to supply us the best of the best.

The vast majority of today’s sites are simply and almost always labeled Web 2.0. Here is Web 2.0 as defined by Wikipedia:

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

How do we keep the millions of new Web 2.0 sites straight? We rely on blogs such as TechCrunch or Mashable to keep us up to date. But how do keep track of the rest? How about via the best Web 2.0 directory on the web.

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Everyday, thousands of new bloggers fire up new blogs with aspirations of millions of dollars and little work at home.

They’ve read the latest from our good friend Everton Blair, the 17 year old .COM millionaire, or the out of work ASP programmer with a simple idea and a lot of time.

What did Ben Affleck say in Boiler Room?

“You become an employee of this firm, you will make your first million within three years. I’m gonna repeat that - you will make a million dollars.”

Well, Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish.com has done exactly that and then some. The difference is, he didn’t do it illegally, he did it alone, with just one programming language, three servers, and whole lot of help from the creators of ASP.net, Microsoft. Here is a short video, from American TV, on the largest ‘one manned’ website in the world.

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I’ve been waiting for a legitimate company to release DRM-free music, so I may take the plunge for the new iPod Touch. The iPod touch is by far the first device I’ve wanted to purchase from Apple.

Don’t get me wrong, Steve Jobs is a genius, he knows what people want and when the right time is to release it. He brought Apple from $7.00/share to $150/share in just five years. All single handedly to everyones favorite device, the iPod. My biggest beef with the entire iPod series has been DRM and iTunes.

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