The Most Influential Web Sites in the World

Interesting article from the ReadWriteWeb e-newsletter:

www.URLFan.com is ranking the popularity of 3,783,534 websites by parsing 302,023,552 blog posts from 5,948,937 blog feeds.

The list below is URLFAN's all-time top 10. The number in brackets to the right of each item is last year's top 10 ranking (Nov '08).
#1. wikipedia.org (1)
#2. youtube.com (3)
#3. flickr.com (2)
#4. twitter.com (9)
#5. google.com (4)
#6. myspace.com (6)
#7. facebook.com (-)
#8. imdb.com (5)
#9. nytimes.com (7)
#10. apple.com (8)

There is one new entrant, Facebook at #7. washingtonpost.com moved out of the top 10, dropping from #10 last year to #12 this year. Twitter is the biggest mover, up 5 places to #4.