While most websites are flying below the radar today, these ten Web sites and services have a good shot at emerging as the fastest growing and most buzz-worthy of 2009.

Flickr: It’s an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community. It’s also been used to share and embed personal photographs. (Time rating: 1)

Twitter: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets (text-based posts of up to 140 characters). (Time rating: 6)

Skype: Skype.com, owned by eBay, provides a popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) computer telephony program called ‘Skype’. (Time rating: 7)

Google: The most-used search engine on the web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. (Time rating: 11)

YouTube: It is the most popular video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. (Time rating: 12)
Wikipedia: It is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet and also considered as the largest encyclopedia.

Facebook: Facebook is one of the most popular social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.
Blogger: Blogger is a blog publishing system. owned by Google and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com.

WordPress: Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection and other features.

Yahoo: Personalised content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs.