card karma – I ditched the idea of sending e-cards online a while ago, mostly due to poor quality and originality of the free cards offered by major e-card providers. But here we have card karma, an exceptional website that offers e-card customization for free with beautiful images (including your own photos), videos and visuals that will persuade the most stubborn e-card haters to reconsider.

Create your e-card by picking an occasion, an image or browse the popular categories. You can edit the text of course, change colors, add images, videos, and decide if you wish to keep your e-card private or public. Here’s the Thank You e-card I created for a very special person in my life.

Image by babasteve on flickr

OhLife – This site has such a unique concept I was anxious to try it out. The basic idea of OhLife is to keep a daily diary -totally private of course- that shows you how you’ve changed through time, and what events and feelings affected you the most. And all this happens using a tool you use on a daily basis anyway – your email.

Once you’ve signed up OhLife sends this question to your email: “How did your day go?” Simply answer it and hit Reply. Over the course of the following days this will go on and over time you will see the changes you went through in terms of events, relationships and feelings – essentially life in a nut shell, only it’s the most interesting one since it’s yours! Set up the time you wish OhLife to send you the question email, even add pics. It’s the ideal modern-day diary for the busy urbanists.

You’ve had your say, and after a couple of nerve racking weeks results came in for the Best Sites of 2010 voting event.  We are pleased to announce the 10 Weekly Fave winners here below (in no particular order). For your convenience I’ve linked the sites to the respective review blog post we’ve published on each throughout the year so you can learn more about these terrific winners.

In addition to the Best Sites of 2010 voting event, All My Faves also held a Best Games of 2010 competition. You played them throughout the year, and your votes nailed down the 40 nominees to 10 winners. Here they are (click the images to play them again):

YouTube Rewind – Every year YouTube recaps the most viral, influential and most viewed videos online. This year, under the Rewind title, YouTube nicely showcases the videos that made the most buzz on the Web in 2010. You can choose between the Most Watched Videos of the Year, Most Watched Music Videos, or explore the Fastest Rising Search Terms (kind of like Google Trends for YouTube).

I loved the visual video-based time line display of  the “moments that defined 2010” (shown below). YouTube also wants you to join the discussion, so just below the time line you’ll see log in options via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Log in and join the conversation. Another interesting feature I found here on YouTube Rewind is YouTube Trends (looks like someone read my thoughts…). Enjoy!

Vote for the Best Games of 2010 – It’s the second year now that we’ve been keeping the ‘Best of the year’ voting tradition, and even though the voting for the Best Sites of 2010 is already closed (winners will be announced later today), the voting event for the Best Games of 2010 will continue until Wednesday, December 29.

Although all 40 game finalists are awesome and addicting, only 10 will score the winning title. “Like” your top game choices and help to make a difference! See all top 40 nominees in the image below, but be sure to click it and go to the actual page to vote. Play on!

Todo.ly – Sounds like a task manager, doesn’t it? Well, you got it. Todo.ly is a free projects, tasks and other to do’s organization tool that endeavors to facilitate and manage your busy life. According to the website, Todo.ly is “a super easy Task Management tool. Allows you to quickly create tasks, and organize them into projects. Set Due Date, and Priority for the different tasks to focus on what you really need to do.”

Although the free service Todo.ly offers is, in terms of life practicality and simplification, a great one, I can’t really see myself abandoning my Google account wonders -including Gmail, calendar, docs, tasks and reminders- and using Todo.ly exclusively. Then again, I realize not everyone is so heavily dependent on Google’s tools for the day-to-day projects and routine as I am. These very same users will undoubtedly appreciate and enjoy Todo.ly’s excellent service. Here’s my Todo.ly frontpage after I had listed my weekly projects.

Moment Garden – Sites celebrating your new baby’s birth and first years in life aren’t a digital novelty. Excited parents and 1st time parents-to-be can make use of an abundance of baby related resources online that combine photos, videos, family newsletters and invitations.

Moment Garden is playing in the same overall baby celebration field, only in national rather than little league. According to the website’s About,  Moment Garden is about collecting, documenting and sharing special moments with loved ones, capturing that “something you can re-live everyday. Something that celebrates your child’s life and keeps your family and friends updated of everything that’s happening.

How does Moment Garden compare to the other baby-childhood visual documenters out there? Decide for yourself.

Jumo – This website is simply amazing. It has cleverly combined the world of NGO/NPOs with the social network sphere, making it the best ‘follow your cause’ venue currently on the Web. In simpler terms, Jumo “makes it easy for you to find, follow, and support the issues and organizations that are important to you.”

Once you’ve signed up via Facebook, the Jumo platform asks you to select your areas of interest (such as human rights, environment and animals, poverty, art & culture, etc.). Next, based on your location, the Jumo system showcases nine different organizations and causes for you to follow in each of your chosen fields. See it here:

When you’re done, you’re taken to Jumo’s silverlining page: a Facbook profile-like page, customized according to your preferences, displaying important news and updates -feeds, really- relevant to your profile, plus suggested causes and organizations to follow. It looks amazing, includes content I’d actually like to read and it’s all for a good purpose. Hooray Jumo!

Top Sites of 2010 – It’s that time of the year again, and we have the ultimate ‘Best of 2010’ face-off for you to participate in. It took us many hours of hard work and clamorous debates, but we’ve finally managed to narrow down the 40 Weekly Fave finalists for you to choose from as the best of 2010.

Declare who is your king of the Web by visiting the  Top Sites of 2010 Voting page and simply “Like” your website of choice (you can only do this once for each listed nominee). But do it quick – voting ends December 26 and winners will be announced on December 27. By the way, we also have a Top Games of 2010 voting event for you to take part in. Don’t you just love democracy?

Totally Cool Pix – The Weekly Blog winner from earlier this month made it to last week’s Weekly Faves collection, and for an evidently good reason. Totally Cool Pix is an amazing resource of phenomenal photography, capturing compelling, surprising and inspiring photos from around the world showing current affairs and news in image form. The anonymous creators of Totally Cool Pix select only the absolute best photographs out there, offering semi-professionals to submit their work in exchange for $100-$150, and proper credit on the site.

To explore the visual wonders of Totally Cool Pix, I suggest starting with the two photo galleries, Top Pictures of 2010 Part 1 and Part 2. Please note that some photos show graphic images of real people, but then again, the true power of story telling often entails such depictions. Below I have included a beautiful photo* by Adam Hunger I found on Totally Cool Pix which he had taken for Reuters, showing what Black Friday was like for many of Americans last month.

*The photo has been re-sized to fit the dimensions of this blog. To see its original size and annotation, please click here.

Earth 350 Art – A climate-focused art exhibition that can be seen from space – that’s the underlining concept of the amazing large scale art of Earth 350, initiated by 350.org. It is “the first-ever global scale group show on the front line of climate change—our polluted cities, endangered forests, melting glaciers, and sinking coastlines.”

Taken via satellite, each of the photos showcased here are awe-inspiring and poignant, and the entire exhibition’s timing intentionally overlapped the UN’s climate meetings in Cancun as a means of voicing the need for a tougher strategy to tackle climate change. I have never seen anything quite like it. See one of my favorite works below, the “Climate Elephant” by Daniel Dancer, New Delhi, India. There are many others right here. Enjoy.