It may not be the only list of Internet sites using SharePoint on the internet, in fact there are now several other sites providing similar lists, and mine is certainly not the prettiest bit it is the largest (933 sites as of today). It is also based on a storage platform that provides a standards based API to access the list data (SharePoint OOTB web services) so anyone can extract the list of sites.

SharePoint allows me to restrict access to these open, standards based API's but I choose to allow people to fully interact with all that SharePoint has to offer unlike other open source blog or wiki platforms that do not provide such an extensive platform as SharePoint.

The problem is that every time I sit down to work on the look and feel of the site, I find a large list of new site to add to the list. I have a view of the sites which is grouped by month but I have recently been discovering more than 100 sites per month so this is not the most optimal view. http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/Resources/WebSites.aspx

When I started the list I expected to maybe have 100 sites in the list and I had 14 categories. As the quantity of sites is almost 5 times greater than I planed I have found how hard it is to re-categorize the existing items. The current number of sites per category is:

I have experimented with a Silverlight Deep Zoom view of the site images but this is a manual compilation which takes too much time. I'm still looking for the best way to present this information. If anyone has any suggestions, please comment.