While my reading rate for TechCrunch posts are continuously dropping, I still read Michael Arrington’s once-a-year favorite products post every year. Like hundreds of people that link back to that post with their own lists, I will do the same. But, with another layer of information: The Turkish tech products that I can’t live without. My hope is two folds:

• Some people will read the post and channel their entrepreneurial enthusiasm for one of those projects rather than another arbitrary derivative/copycat project coming out of Turkey every day these days.

• I will be contacted by one of these entrepreneurs to see how to jump start a start-up that will fill the empty spaces.

For Collaboration and communication, Outlook is still my favorite, but I use it along with Gmail. Google Sites host more than 10 different projects of mine, all with different people from different geographies around the world. The Google Sites is so easy to use that my girlfriend hosts a project that catalogs online retailers, our coupons, and our favorite products in shape. iPhone simply helps me to access most of my favorite services listed here on the go. Playstation 3 is just awesome. Call of Duty 4, Blu-Ray, and many more things still to be developed. Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora covers all my entertainment needs. Google Reader is by far my most important product. I think I value it more than my Stanford tuition, but fortunately it is free! Google Maps is a must. Google Books is a great tool to read first, buy later. I have read tens of textbooks before I delve deeper into one subject. Del.icio.us contains 90% of my practical knowledge I accumulated in the last 5 years. It completely works in conjunction with Google Reader and helps me keep track of my knowledgebase. Dealnews saves me lots of time and money, and it fundamentally changed my shopping habit. Historically, the shopping was all about deciding to buy a certain thing in a small timeframe. With dealnews, it is now about deciding to buy right now, literally something with a great value. Amazon supplies everything I have to pay for. LinkedIn is LinkedIn and Wordpress is what enables me to write this.

From Turkey, Zargan is a very handy, simple, fast-loading dictionary. It has a mobile version great for iPhone. EksiSozluk is a social wiki about everything Turkish, with a very committed group of editors and a restricted crowdsourcing model. Garanti Bankasi is Turkey’s leading bank, at least two decades advanced than any bank in U.S. You need to experience it to reach my conclusion, but you have my word. I wish some people at Garanti Bank make the bold decision to enter the U.S market and become the king of finance here. Its mobile version for iPhone is great.

What I lack from Turkey? There is no strong service to consume news about the tech market.