{"id":7073,"date":"2008-12-29T13:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/2008-top-lists-round-up\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:25:54","slug":"2008-top-lists-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/2008-top-lists-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 top lists round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever New Year is around the corner, the Web is flooded with top 10s, best-of lists and all sorts of summaries and rankings that try to encapsulate a whole year in only a few lines. Web sites and blogs around the world create their own themed lists according to their main topic, so I thought it would be a good idea to create a meta-list; that is, a list with the most interesting lists you can find these days on the Internet. It’s certainly a good summary of the year that’s about to finish.<\/p>\n

\"TopMost under-hyped apps<\/strong>
\nIn this list<\/a> published by Lifehacker, Gina Trapani includes a series of apps that she considers deserved more attention during the last twelve months. Songbird, Picasa 3, VLC Media Player and Opera are among them.<\/p>\n

\"TopBest of Last.fm<\/strong>
\nThe online music service has published a list<\/a> with the most popular artists, albums and tracks of 2008, based entirely on users’ scrobblings. Coldplay has the most scrobbled song and album, while MGMT top the Artist ranking.<\/p>\n

\"TopTop searches in Google<\/strong>
\nIn keeping with tradition, Google has published its Google Zeitgeist<\/a>, a list of the most searched-for terms during 2008. The list varies from one country to another, but the global ranking is topped by Sarah Palin. Kudos to her!<\/p>\n

\"TopMost downloaded iTunes apps<\/strong>
\nThe App Store features a list where you can see the top downloaded apps of 2008<\/a>. The list is organized in several categories: games, entertainment, utilities, social networking and music, all in free or paid versions.<\/p>\n

\"TopMost beautiful icon sets<\/strong>
\nThe design blog Noupe has gathered an impressive collection with the 50 most beautiful icon sets<\/a> created during this year. You’ll find icons for blogs, for the iPhone, for social networks\u2026 and many of them for free.<\/p>\n

\"TopBest photos of 2008<\/strong>
\nThe top photos of 2008 in Flickr is being created by users themselves. Flickr has asked all Flickr users<\/a> to choose the best photo they’ve taken this year and add it to the special group “Your best shot of 2008<\/a>“. Really worth a look!<\/p>\n

\"TopTop 10 Videogames<\/strong>
\nPublished by the Time magazine, this list includes the top videogames of 2008<\/a>, though I must say I don’t agree with most of it \u2013 except for GTA IV’s first place, that is. The wooden spoon award is for Spore.<\/p>\n

\"TopMost Pirated PC Games<\/strong>
\nFunnily enough, Spore does reach number one in the Top Pirated PC games list<\/a> published by Joystiq. Other games in this list are Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty 4 and Fallout 3. Not something to be specially proud of, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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