Flickr tops TIME’s list of Best 50 Websites of 2009

The hottest thing on the Internet is not social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, but Flickr-the popular photo-sharing portal - and the proof is: it has topped TIME's list of the best 50 websites this year.

One of the noticeable trends in this year”s list, which was released this week, was on-demand video services, like YouTube, Vimeo and US services Hulu and Netflix.

However, the top two in the list were related to photographs, with California Coastline following Flickr at the second spot.

Third in the list was bookmark website Delicious, while community weblog Metafilter stood at the fourth place.

Popurls, the mashup of the web”s most visited social news sites and portals, grabbed the fifth spot in the list.

Twitter ranked sixth and Facebook came 31st in the list, while YouTube and Hulu came at 12th and 14th place in the list.

TIME”s list of 50 Best Websites of 2009 is: 1. Flickr 2. California Coastline 3. Delicious 4. Metafilter 5. popurls 6. Twitter 7. Skype 8. Boing Boing 9. Academic Earth 10. OpenTable 11. Google 12. YouTube 13. Wolfram|Alpha 14. Hulu 15. Vimeo 16. Fora TV 17. Craiglook 18. Shop Goodwill 19. Amazon 20. Kayak 21. Netflix 22. Etsy 23. PropertyShark.com 24. Redfin 25. Wikipedia 26. Internet Archive 27. Kiva 28. ConsumerSearch 29. Metacritic 30. Pollster 31. Facebook 32. Pandora and Last.fm 33. Musicovery 34. Spotify 35. Supercook 36. Yelp 37. Visuwords 38. CouchSurfing 39. BabyNameWizard.com”s NameVoyager 40. Mint 41. TripIt 42. Aardvark 43.

drop.io 44. Issuu 45. Photosynth 46. OMGPOP 47. WorldWideTelescope 48. Fonolo 49. Get High Now 50.