Broadband
Flagrantly ignoring tradition, BT has opened a website that has a simple address, downloads quickly, is easy to navigate, and might even be useful, though I wouldn't get too excited about the last bit. The site provides a Broadband Availability Checker, where you type in your phone number to find out you can't have it. Now it also lets you register an interest in the ADSL service you can't have. When registrations for a particular exchange reach the "trigger level", BT will install it. www.bt.com/broadband

Trailer park
Any list of bookmarks is incomplete without the wonderful Internet Movie Database (IMDb), now owned by Amazon. Sky Movies is unlikely to match that, but says its aim is to become "the best movie website in the UK". (I suppose we now think IMDb is American, though it first hit the web from Cardiff University). Sky Movies' main attraction seems to be the huge collection of trailers, including three for Minority Report. Then again, I think I'd rather read Movie Poop Shoot.

Home site
Shelter has launched a site to educate school-aged children about the risks of becoming homeless. It includes information on leaving home, finding somewhere to live, housing rights, and what to do if you have nowhere to stay. There is a schools pack for teachers. The IT world also helps homeless children by raising funds for the NCH through an annual sleep-out.

Finder
Would you like to know where up to five friends are or, at least, where their mobile phones are? AT&T Wireless is the first company to launch such a service in the US. Don't have five friends? Would you like to see where the planes are around LAX airport in Los Angeles? (Note to would-be terrorists: there is a 10-minute delay before the map is updated.)

Shorties
With web addresses getting overlong, Makeashorterlink provided one way to make them shorter. Now there are lots of similar sites including Quickones, TinyURL, and Shorl.com, which, as ResearchBuzz points out, also lets you access statistics about the link's use.

Play!
The Game On video games exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery is now being promoted using a Shockwave game you can play online. It does not actually start with a 1960s game, but it does take you through video gaming history. The game was developed by Philip O'Dwyer of State Design, and featured on the BBC programme Go Digital.