EVERYTHING 2.0: 31 December 2006

06 January 2007

Optevi

Get feeds & contextually relevant related news, blogs & discussion pages

Changingthepresent

Invite friends to donate to your good causes

Shuzak

Community for geeks (with Digg-like features)

Grepr

Explore & share podcasts & get recommendations

Ujiko**

Visualize your search, manipulate (the hierarchy of) results; the more you use it, the more cool features you get (by the wizards of Kartoo)

05 January 2007

Spresent

Create, edit & share flash presentations

Mapwii

Map your wii number & challenge other players

Robinfood

Subscribe to gameshow, donate; if you win spend 1 million on good causes

Viewr

Publish on map & buy or sell homes, globally

Sex sells 2.0 - 2

This happened immediately after posting the article below. Click the picture.

Tada - the Blogosphere!

Ever wondered if the blogosphere really existed?
It does - in a few beautiful charts on the Datamining blog.

"The highly connected area below centre is the socio/political community. Above and to the right is the heart of the technical blogosphere with BoingBoing being the brightest node."

Sex sells 2.0

I thought Fleshbot was joking, but I couldn't help checking it - Ebay etailers actually are using t&a to drive their sales.

04 January 2007

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.

More than 10,000 Web 2.0 sites globally

The site count on the list that I maintain on this blog - almost exclusively reporting on sites with an English language interface - has now reached a level of a little over 3,000.
I've now found more than a hundred Dutch Web 2.0 sites. In my experience, speaking about the web, Holland always represents about 2 percent of the world market. Meaning that, according to my very broad definitions of Web 2.0, we have passed the 10,000 mark globally.

~Dutch Web 2.0 Awards~

Dutch Web 2.0 news blog Blueace has closed the nomination phase for the 1st Dutch Web 2.0 Awards. Voting will start tomorrow.
It has helped me to make good on some omissions (Hyves!), and to spot a few interesting new initiatives with international growth potential (cf. the 3 articles below).

My Dutch Web 2.0 winners for 2006 are:

Brandgossip - B2B relevance, revenue potantial
Ebuddy - huge international success thru simple virallity
Fleck - product might evolve into something just as good as their launch campaign
Internet Address Book - good concept, well executed
Mendix - offering the Holy Grail of SOA
Start12 - understands that after Surfing and Searching, Selection will be the new trend
Swoot - brilliant app, huge international & revenue potantials
Whyrobbierocks - great concept, international potential

Swoot**~

Build your own browser

Start12*~

Find, compare & review online service providers

Brandgossip*~

Find what people say about your brand

Dutch List - additions

14dayz~ - Timetracker - Office
3voor12~ - Profile yourself & share mediaMultimedia
Brandgossip*~ - Find what people say about your brandSearch
Deligio~ - Discover, manage & share your downloadsSoftware
Desnackbar~ - Find the one you want to have a snack withDate
Ekudos~ - Digg Dutch newsNews
Floorplanner~ - Design your floorplan onlineSoftware
Hyves~ - Share your profile in hyves & meet friendsCommunity
Job-brokers~ - Submit your resume & get job offersEmployment
Kluskring~ - Share ideas & knowledge on DIYCommunity
Mailmydisc~ - Exchange your mediaEconomy
Markthisdate~ - Publish & share eventsKnowledge
Nomos~ - Live reporting on sound levels around Amsterdam AirportGeo
Oondi~ - Publish & share your textPublish
Rasasa~ - RSS-based news alert service - News
Schoolbank~ - Profile yourself & find back class matesCommunity
Sharecare~ - Organize yourselves in groups to share careCommunity
Start12*~ - Find, compare & review online service providersEcommerce
Swoot**~ - Build your own browserBrowse
Sync~ - Customize your info on special interestsNews
Ywoosh~ - Find or sell housesEcommerce
Zoom~ - Upload & share photosImage