Best Web 2.0 software 2006

I've already published my Brilliant List last month. But here come the Web 2.0 apps that I've actually recommended - thru word of mouse & word of mouth - at least 5 times during the past year.

Best About Web 2.0
Programmableweb - Web 2.0 reference website, main source on APIs and mash-ups
Runner up: Ajaxian - Ajax blog

Best 2006 Audio 2.0
Pandora - Personalized radio
Runner up: Lastfm - Profile your taste, share, personalize your radio

Best 2006 Bookmark 2.0
Delicious - Social bookmarking

Best 2006 Browse 2.0
Swoot~ - Build your own browser

Best 2006 Collaborate 2.0
Rrove - Save & share places

Best 2006 Communicate 2.0
Blinklife - Social email
Runners up: Grandcentral - Get 1 phone number for all your calls; Rebtel - Call international at local rates - using your cell phone; Nabaztag - Get info & communicate thru wi-fi rabbit device

Best 2006 Community 2.0
Plazes - Claim & share your locations - Community
Runners up: Xing - Community for entrepreneurs & professionals - Community; Capazoo - Create, publish & share your content - Community

Best 2006 Dbase 2.0
Perspectives - Visualizes spatio-temporaly the places we inhabit

Best 2006 Design 2.0
Dontclickit - Clickless interface

Best 2006 Ecommerce 2.0
Spreadshirt - Design, buy or sell your T's

2006 Economy 2.0
Kiva - Give a micro credit to an entrepreneur from a developing country

Best 2006 E-learning 2.0
Mindpicnic - Share & learn from online knowledge

Best 2006 Employment 2.0
Emurse - Create, share & send your permanent resume page in any format

Best 2006 Finance 2.0
Squawklive - Mashes up stock data & news, sends alerts

Best 2006 Game 2.0
Inkling - Social delphi, exchange for futures
Runners up: Mobspray - Create & share graffiti in places thru mobile2RFID; Mindpicnic - Where is that-quiz

Best 2006 Geo 2.0
Geovector - LBS services with a usable interface

Best 2006 Identity 2.0
Sxipper - Wand service (with OpenID)

Best 2006 Images 2.0
Photosynth - Rebuild the world in photos - other users' and your own
Runners up: Mypictr - Create, crop & publish your profile pic for social softwares; Polar Rose - Help to make the visual web searchable (Stealth)

Best 2006 Multimedia 2.0
Hackoff - Book published as blog & podcast

Best 2006 News 2.0
Newsmap - Rank-interfaced news (who knows what happened to Hives?)

Best 2006 Office 2.0
Printeranywhere - Use your friends' printers

Best 2006 OS 2.0
Desktoptwo - Manage your desktop in a browsr

Best 2006 Portal 2.0
Netvibes - Personal portal
Runners up: Googleig - Personal portal; Goowy - Personal portal (desktop & browser versions); Fannation - Customize your sports team's content here

Best 2006 Publish 2.0
Snappreview - Offer your site's visitors a preview of any page you link to

Best 2006 Search 2.0
Kartoo - Clustered, mapped search
Runners up: Vivisimo - Clustered search; Lijit - Social contextual search; Musestorm - Metasearch in Flash (several interfaces)

Best 2006 Software 2.0
Dapper - API generator
Runner up: Mendix~ - Semantic application development

Best 2006 Tag 2.0
Semapedia - Add wikipedia tags to real world things

Best 2006 Video 2.0
Youtube - Upload & share video
Runners up: Sevenload - Upload & share photos & videos; Darejunkies - Video challenge contest

Best 2006 Wi-fi 2.0
Fon - Share, buy, sell wi-fi connections

Best 2006 Company 2.0
Netvibes remains the overall winner!

My assessment might be biased in a few cases. My company is working for Rebtel, Xing, Polar Rose, Mendix, Sevenload and Fon - and would like to build a similar close relationship with most of the other companies mentioned above.