Started by Michael Kinsley in 1996, Slate Magazine is owned by The Washington Post. In 2008 the magazine became part of The Washington Post's newly created Slate Group. If you find mainstream journalism a dull, cold world, you might try this online publication. Slate Magazine operates a popular Web site offering news and commentary slightly skewed for hip and erudite readers. The Internet magazine covers the arts, business, politics, sports, travel, and technology and attracts an audience of about 5 million people. The Web site is supported through advertising and sponsorships.

SavvyDiner.com was founded in 1987. For those who like to savor a good meal, SavvyDiner.com offers online reservations to some of the nation's finer easting establishments. The Web site's restaurant index includes nearly 1,000 locations in more than 40 US cities, from Atlanta to Tampa Bay, Florida. The company also works with upscale hotels to refer guests to quality restaurants. It surveys the concierge staff of the top hotels in the cities it covers for their restaurant recommendations, and also follows local and national food critics' comments and reviews.

iMergent, Inc., an e-services company, together with its subsidiaries, provides e-commerce technology, training, and various Web-based technologies and resources to entrepreneurs, and small, medium, and large enterprises. Imergent, Inc. offers search engine optimization and search engine management services. Its solutions enable its customers to market and sell their business products or ideas via the Internet. The company offers the StoresOnline software and Website development platform that enables customers to develop Internet Websites for commerce. It also provides site development, Web hosting, and search engine optimization services. iMergent sells and markets its products and services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Imergent, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Healthline Networks, Inc. was formed in 1999 as YourDoctor.com; it floundered during the dot com bust and eventually resurfaced as Healthline Networks in 2005 with funding from companies such as VantagePoint and Reed Elsevier. Healthline Networks wants to give you a direct connection to health information. The company's Web site uses proprietary semantic taxonomy to match everyday language with medical terms for a more complete look at interconnected topics from diseases and conditions to causes and treatments. In addition to operating its own ad-supported consumer Web site, Healthline powers search, advertising, and content services to a network of publishers, advertisers, health Web sites, and health plans.

The Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily through donations and grants, and was founded by Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales in 2003. Want free access to the sum of all human knowledge? Wikimedia Foundation can give it to you. The not-for-profit organization has produced a plethora of free-content wiki projects, including one of the most visited sites on the Internet, online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia (the foundation's first project). The term wiki (a Hawaiian word for "fast") describes a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone with Internet access to contribute or modify content. Wikimedia has a paid staff of about 30, while hundreds of thousands of volunteers contribute content.

Bebo is a popular social network in the UK, and has versions of the site in about a dozen countries in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The site allows users (who are predominantly ages 16-24) to set up profiles through which they can share photos and interests in movies, music, and sports. Bebo users can find content based on what members of their social network are consuming. Bebo counts about 25 million users. Programmer Michael Birch co-founded Bebo with wife Xochi in 2005. Unable to attract more users in the US, in 2010 former parent company AOL sold Bebo to turnaround specialist Criterion Capital Partners. MySpace. Facebook. Bebo? Call it the triad of free online social networking sites.

WGSN was founded in 1998 by former British textile entrepreneurs, brothers Julian and Marc Worth, and is owned by UK trade publisher Emap. Fashion buyers and designers don't need to leave their desks to see the latest collections -- they can do it right from their PCs through the Worth Global Style Network (WGSN). WGSN offers subscription access to apparel, style, design, and retail industry news, as well as reviews, trend reports, and market analysis. The service is targeted at buyers, designers, retailers, marketers, and industry analysts; it has some 36,000 customers. Sister site WGSN-edu.com offers a time-delayed version of the service to fashion and design students for free.

ClickHome operates a Web site that provides real estate services in Santa Clara, California and the surrounding Bay Area. ClickHome serves buyer and sellers of residential, commercial, and investment property. ClickHome's offerings include an online mortgage calculator, searches for available properties, and refinancing and home-selling services.

EDGAR Online, Inc. creates and distributes financial data and public filings for equities, mutual funds, and other publicly traded assets primarily in the United States. The company offers data that assists in the analysis of the financial, business, and ownership conditions of a company or investment vehicle. It provides its information products in the form of online end-user subscriptions, as well as through data licenses and data feeds. The company’s subscription services include I-Metrix and I-Metrix Professional, which offer a Web only service and allows users to do in-depth analysis via the Web and a Microsoft Excel add-in; EDGAR Pro that offers financial data, stock ownership, public offering data sets, and advanced search tools; and EDGAR Access, EDGAR Online company’s retail product that is available via single-seat and credit card purchase. Its data products comprise standardized and as-reported financial data, annual and quarterly financial statements, insider trades, institutional holdings, initial and secondary public offerings, Form 8-K disclosures, electronic prospectuses, and other investment instrument disclosure information. The company also engages in advertising and e-commerce activities. It sells its subscriptions and data feeds directly to end-users or embedded in other Web sites, and through various data redistributors. EDGAR Online company’s consumers include financial, corporate, and advisory professionals working in financial institutions, such as investment funds, asset management firms, insurance companies and banks, stock exchanges, and government agencies, as well as in accounting firms, law firms, corporations, and individual investors. It has strategic alliances with Microsoft, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, CNW group, ThomsonReuters, and Lexis Nexis. EDGAR Online was formerly known as Cybernet Data Systems, Inc. and changed its name to EDGAR Online, Inc. in January 1999. EDGAR Online was founded in 1995 and is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Atlantic.Net provides dial-up and broadband Internet access and other Internet and telecommunications services in the southeastern US. Atlantic.Net company's services for residential customers include Internet access and Web hosting. It also offers such business services as long distance and local calling, Web design, data colocation, computer telephony, and network security. Atlantic.Net's partners include broadband telecommunications services and equipment providers, Cisco Systems, New Edge Network, Progress Telecom. Owner and CEO Marty Puranik co-founded Atlantic.Net in 1994.

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