Issue date: December 10, 2000

Last week's Best of the Web
My web: Christy Haubegger

You've got pictures

Instead of stuffing holiday pictures in a shoebox this season or, if you're really diligent, an album, why not create an online photo album instead? Hewlett-Packard's Cartogra.com makes it easy, with loads of fantastic photo surprises for the holidays: You can share you photo album with distant family and friends, send holiday e-cards and letters with the kids' photos on them, or order fun stuff like coffee mugs and even holiday cookies emblazoned with your best pictures.

Want to give it a whirl? If you've got a digital camera, it's easy -- just upload your pictures directly to the site. No digital camera? There are a number of ways to get your pictures digitized: Use a scanner to scan in pictures you've already developed, have your local photo developing service post your pictures online or on a photo CD, or send your film to Ofoto.com or another photo processing site.

Once you've got e-pictures, there's no limit to what you can do -- create online scrapbooks complete with captions, e-mail under-the-tree antics to Grandma, or log on to Cartogra.com to create a holiday photo show, complete with graphics, special effects and music.

More sites for photo fiends:
PhotoHighway.com: Online developing, digital camera shopping and helpful advice for newbies.
GatherRound.com: The usual photo album tools, with a twist: The "Album Talk" feature here lets you post comments and responses on a picture.
Snapfish.com: Cheap film developing (as low as $1.69 per roll).
Walmart.com: Drop off your film at a Wal-Mart store and check the box that says "Online Photos." When you pick up your prints, you'll get a password that lets you access your pictures and create albums online.

By Rula Razek, editor in chief of Internet Cool Guide (internetcoolguide.com).

My Web: Christy Haubegger

Movers, shakers and their bookmarks

Christy Haubegger, 32, has little time to play. She is president, founder and publisher of Latina, a magazine aimed at Hispanic women. But she loves shopping and giving gifts, so when she has a minute she can't resist checking these sites:
flooz.com offers online currency that is redeemable at over 60 online stores including Tower Records, Godiva Chocolatier, Eastern Mountain Sports and iGadget. "I do it for employees, to tell them, 'Hey, great job'. "
alibris.com for cool rare books. "I got a friend of mine a first edition original printing of Booker T. Washington's The Future of the American Negro, published 100 years ago."
For cool, rare non-alcoholic drinks, popsoda.com. "My favorite soda in Texas is called Big Red Texas Cream," says Haubegger, who grew up in Houston and now lives in New York. "I can order a case of Big Red and have it delivered."

-- Ricardo A. Gutierrez