BOOKMARK 2.0 - Update

This is one of the most crowded categories, but it's not onedimensional at all. Many bookmarking concepts cross over to or have symptoms of e.g. link bank concepts, notepad concepts, Digg-like concepts and NEWS 2.0 concepts. Since the fall of 2006 I only add websites that have original features or a remarkably high quality.

6-Clicks - Add keywords to websites
9rules - Validate & share links to content
Abstractmouse - Social bookmarking
Addthis - Collect 'all' information with one button
Allmyfavorites - Social bookmarking
Allyourwords - Associate & share words with links
Backflip - Social bookmarking
Blabb - Social bookmarking
Blinkist - Social bookmarking
Blogelo - Rate & share websites
Blogmarks - Social bookmarking
Bluedot - Social bookmarking
Blummy - Manage your bookmarks
Bmaccess - Social bookmarking with thumbs
Bookmarkme - Help create & download bookmarks
Bookmarktracker - Social bookmarking
Bringalink - Submit better links on front page articles' content
Buddymarks - Social bookmarking
Butterfly~ - Bookmark & annotate
Cchits - Social bookmarking
Changetolink - Create, bookmark & share pages
Chipmark - Social bookmarking
Chuquet* - Find buzzes
Clipclip - Clip & share
Clipmarks - Social clipping
Collectfavorites - Social bookmarking
Commontimes - Social bookmarking & clippings
Connectedy - Social bookmarking
Connotea - Social bookmarking (for researchers)
Darkeye - Submit, review, rate & share websites
Deepquote - Create links to quotes
Delicious* - Social bookmarking
Delirious - Social bookmarking
Digglicious - Mash-up of Digg & Delicious
Diigo - Social bookmarking on steroids
Dine52 - Social bookmarking
Dogear - Social bookmarking
Ensiting - Share links with friends
Favmark - Social bookmarking
Favoritoo - Social bookmarking
Favr~ - Social bookmarking
Fazed - Share cool links
Feedalley - Social bookmarking
Feedmarker - Social bookmarking for news
Feedmelinks - Social bookmarking
Fisz~ - Social bookmarking
Foxcloud - Social bookmarking
Freelink - Social bookmarking
Fungow - Social bookmarking
Furl - Clip, store & share web pages
Getboo - Social bookmarking
Givealink - Donate & share bookmarks
Guicookies - Social bookmarking
Hyperlinkomatic - Social bookmarking
i89 - Social bookmarking
Icio - Social bookmarking & rating
Ikeepbookmarks - Social bookmarking
Indiza - Tag-based bookmarks
Jeteye - Clip & share (parts of) web pages
Kidlinkz - Bookmark for your kids
Kmfavorites - Social bookmarking
Kraytiv - Bookmark pages relating to creativity
Lilisto - Social bookmarking
Linkatopia - Social bookmarking
Linklog~ - Social bookmarking
Linkroll - Social bookmarking
Listible - Folksonomied software & code search
Listmixer - Social bookmarking (temporary links)
Livemarks - Live update of Delicious
Looklater - Private bookmarking
Lookmarks - Social bookmarking
Lookthisup - Social bookmarking
Lycosiq - Social bookmarking + Q&A
Magnolia - Social bookmarking & voting
Maple - Social bookmarking
Markaboo - Bookmark & share anything
Maxigate - Social bookmarking desktop
Mister-wong - Social bookmarking (German)
Mobilicious - Mobile social bookmarking
Motorken - Digg automotive news
Multipost - Make your own multipost bookmarklet tool
Mybookmarkmanager - Social bookmarking
Mybookmarks - Social bookmarking
Myhq - Social bookmarking
Mylinkvault - Social bookmarking
Mypip - Social bookmarking
My-tuts - Social tutorial bookmarking (and soon: publishing)
Myvmarks - Social bookmarking
Namakkal - Store, share & tag bookmarks
Netvouz - Social bookmarking
Onerandomsite - Add & share links & surf at random
Onlinebookmarkmanager - Social bookmarking
Onlywire - Social bookmarking aggregator
Oyax - Social bookmarking
Philoi - Social bookmarking
Pixpix - Bookmark & share media
Pixrat - Social photo bookmarking
Postr - Post bookmarks to many services
Qoosa - Social bookmarking
Recommendit - Social bookmarking
Sabrosus - Store & share bookmarks
Scratchlist - Social bookmarking, partly automated
Scuttle - Social bookmarking
Searchfox - Social bookmarking
Searchles - Submit, tag & share sites
Shadows - Social bookmarking
Simile - Interoperates metadata in unlike environments
Simpy - Social bookmarking, tagging & search
Sitebar - Social bookmarking
Sitejot - Social bookmarking
Sitetagger - Social bookmarking
Slurlmaker* - Bookmark sites in Second Life
Smarking - Social bookmarking
Snipit - Clip parts of web pages
Snipplr - Delicious for programmers
Socialbookmarking - Social bookmarking
Socialfront - Meta social bookmarking
Socializer - Submit social bookmarks at many websites
Socialmarks - Social bookmarking
Spurl - Bookmarking & search
Staralicious - Digg (news about) celebrities
Startaid - Manage & share your (thumb) bookmarks
Stufflinker - Mobile and web bookmarking
Stumbleupon - Social bookmarking (random sharing)
Surftail - Share your click paths
Sync2it - Social bookmarking
Syncone - Social bookmarking
Tagblitz - One-stop-bookmarking tool
Taggle - Social bookmarking, tagged (German)
Tagtooga - Social bookmarking
Techcheatsheets - Share cheats
Thumblicious - Displays thumbs of most pupular delicious sites

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BROWSE 2.0 - Update

I am aware that there are some more browsers in the Mozilla/Firefox school - AND numerous cool applications in the same tradition - that I don't report on in the other Everything 2.0 categories. But I'm simply too addicted to Opera's browser to look further into this. Any Mozilla/Firefox correspondents among the readership of this blog?

3B - 3D web browser
Browse3D - 3D web browser
Browzar - Surf anonymously
Bubbles - Launch frequently used sites in your system tray from a light browser (download)
Camino - Mozilla power & Mac style browser
Flock - Lightweight browser
Ghostzilla - Browse the web within other apps
Maxthon - Tabbed browser, IE-compatible
Piggy-bank - Semantic web browser (Firefox)
Psiphon* - Surf the web anonymously
Songbird* - Browse, download, manage & share all media
Spherexplorer - 3D web browser
Swift - Safari-like browser for Windows (very alpha)
Swoot**~ - Build your own browser


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COLLABORATE 2.0 - Update

If I'd start all over, I'd probably categorize some of the following websites under KNOWLEDGE 2.0 or ORGANIZE 2.0:

Aggregateknowledge - Recommendation engine
Asoboo - Find people & places in your city
Barcamp - Ongoing interactive event
Bluetie - Collaborative Office-like toolkit
Cogmap - Create, edit & share org charts
Conceptshare - Collaborate on design
Cynin - Manage, organize, store, search, collaborate, discuss, share & publish any kind of data
Eloops - Project management solutions
Glinkr - Map & share views on issues
Globalvoices - Tagged aggregator of regional information from particapatory media
Grouploop - Organize & collaborate in your own group
Jamjar - Flash collaboration suite for small groups
Kevo - Collaborate on VIP's biographies & gossip
Lifetango - Publish your goals & ask others to support you
Lime - Help & inspire eachother
Lyrics~ - Share lyrics & music information
Mayomi - Mind map & share
Mecanbe - Share your goals and inspirations
Mydecide - Take decisions together
Officezilla - Free collaboration solutions
Onlinegroups - Create a site, a group, invite & collaborate
Parlano - Group dialogue & document sharing
People2pray - Manage & share prayer requests
Qype - Find & recommend best spots in town
Redlettr - Tag & comment the bible
Rel8r - Tag, read, search blogs
Rrove* - Save & share places
Say-so - Share problems & get advise
Selectminds - Facebook & collaboration tools for staff and alumni
Socialight - Share pictures & notes with your cell phone
Standpoint - Share & evangelize convictions
Studicious - Online note taking & sharing
Teamworklive - Communicate, collaborate & share information
Utensil-ed* - Submit ideas and concepts & brainstorm about them with other users
Wikihow - Collaborate on collection of how-to manuals

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COMMUNICATE 2.0 - Update

Man's desire to communicate seems to be endless - since we discovered the phone as a device for social talk, we're spending more & more of our time to all kinds of silly (and only some serious) chatter.
To me it's surprising that there's so little innovation in interfacing between all these devices & applications. Landlines, mobile phones, email, webmail, voicemail, VoIP, messenger, chat - who will enable me to manage them all from one Über-app?!
Since recently, there's a remarkable volume of new activities around (alternatives for old style) telecommunications.

2prong - Get email address for 24 hrs
3bubbles - Add chat to your blog
3Dplanets - VR chat community
3jam - One to many texting
9cays - Group email2web
Abcde… - Get the longest email-address
Ajchat - Create chat rooms
Allfreecalls - Make free calls from the USA
Bbpress - Publish & manage your forum
Blinklife*** - Social email
Blobber - Communicate with other site visitors
Blogoforum - Categorize your forum by tagging
Boxbe - Use Boxbe as your public address, let advertisers pay to reach you
Buddystumbler - Find someone to IM with
Butterfat - Traceroute map mash-up
Callthefuture - Place future phone calls
Campfire - Permalinked chat
Cellcast - Record audio or video with your cell phone & share it with friends
Celltell - Send voice notes from your phone
Chatcreator* - Create your chat room instantly
Chatfu - Cartoonize your chat
Chatsum* - Chat with & leave messages same-site-visitors
Chinswing - Voice message board
Clipsync - Watch videos together & chat
Combots - Communicate & share emoti(c)ons 1 to 1
Connectmeanywhere - Mobile & landlines over IP
Conversate - Create your own chat
Convinceme - Choose from 3 debating features
Craigsnumber - Get a temporary, anonymous phone number
Crickee - Send & receive sms for free
Daisy - Meet & share with fellow site visitors
Dropsend - Email large files
Ebuddy - Integrates several messengers (formerly E-messenger)
E-messenger~ - Integrates several messengers (relaunched as Ebuddy)
Eqo - Call, text & IM your buddies on your mobile
Evoca - Create, manage, share & search voice recordings
Feefo - Leave feedback on sellers; forum
Flurrymail - Your email on your current mobile phone
Foonz - Make group calls for free (USA)
Forlater - Send email reminders to yourself & others
Fring* - Call for free on your 3G cell
Funkycall - Record, upload, deploy & share your phone pranks
Fuzzmail - Record & send 'film' of how you generate an email message
Gabbly - Get chat on your blog
Gabmail* - Record & send videomail
Getabuz - Create a voice mail with music
Gigya - Myspace2email
Gizmo - Call Gizmo friends for free, or pay low rates
Good - Global mobile messaging for the enterprise
Gotvoice - Save & share your voice mail in email
Grandcentral* - Get 1 phone number for all your calls
Grouptivity - Reduce response on group email
Gtalkr - Google Talk, Flickr, YouTube, feeds
Hellodeo* - Record & send your video message
Hictu - See thru which channels you can best communicate with your contacts
Hinale - Chat with people who have visited the same sites
Hotxt - Skype for sms
Hullo* - Integrates soft, cell & landline phones
ICQphone - Call at low rates
Iglance - Push-to-talk videoconf and screen-sharing
Iloveim - Meta IM
Imeem - Share words, files & people (on messenger)
Imeep - Chat 1 to 1 at at random
Imthere - Share where your are & where you're going
Imvu - 3D messenger
Incircles - Add a chat app to your blog
Instan-t - Meta messenger
Iotum - Sorts & processes calls on relevance
Iskoot - Call people on your online buddylists
Itzle - Chat with other site visitors
Jabbin - PC2PC voip (Jabber client)
Jabphone - Messenger2phone
Jajah - Free phone calls, glocally
Jangl - Hide your cell phone number
Joopz - Web2Text & Text2Web
Jott - Voice & text 2 email & mobile
Jumpclaimer - Inform your relatives about your whereabouts thru sms
Juvino - Reroute your mobile calls and texting
Kishkish - Detect lies thru phone
Koolim - Meta messenger
Kopete - Universal messenger
Lingr - Chat community
Litepost - Webmail
Loquendotts - Text2sneeze
Mabber - Mobile messenger
Mail2RSS - Inmail2RSS
Mailfriends - Penpals site
Mailvault - Store, process & encrypt your email
Mamjam - Location based instant messaging
Mangeloo - Run IM on all devices & everwywhere
Mapchatter - Chat on maps
Maywehelp - Surf any web page & Chat with other site visitor
Meebo - Integrates several messengers
Messagr - Find & communicate with people with matching interests or knowledge
Mig33 - Chat, text & call your friends
Minowireless - VoiP on your mobile
Mixd - Text & send pix & vids to groups of friends
Mobbah~ - Email or wap your photo + location
Mozeo - Text cast to & chat with your own group on your cell
Myemail - Check email anywhere
Nabaztag* - Get info & communicate thru wi-fi rabbit device
Nat1ion - Chat while you surf
Newsletterarchive* - Store & share your newsletters
Nimbuzz~ - Free mobile community calls, chats, IM
Nowpos - Voice2Email
Onesens - Send teasing webmail messages
Oyco - Meta communications toolkit
Paltalk - Videochat for social networks
Peekkochat - Make every site a 'place' (Firefox plug-in)
Pheeder - Alert all your friends with 1 phone call
Phonegnome* - Add VoiP to your PSTN, SIPped
Pikapet - Create & send a personalized ecard
Pinger - Instant voice messaging
Pinppl - PIN messaging for Blackberry users
Planetminibox - Let your site visitors chat with you & eachother
Plugaid - Start or participate in discussions & take them with you
Plugoo - Take your IM to any page you want
Quickmail - Email2RSS
Quicktopic - Group message board
Radiohandi - Group chat
Radiusim - Location enhanced messenger service
Readspeaker - Text2speech app (Spanish)
Rebtel* - Call international at local rates - using your cell phone
Roundcube - Webmail
Sameplace - Chat while you surf
Sametalk - Chat with other site visitors
Scatterchat - Secure IM for activists & dissidents
Scratchnscribble - Mail real handwritten postcards
Scribeit - Group chat thru mobile messaging
Sendspace - Email large files
Shinyletter - Mail2snailmail
Sideklick - Get contextually relevant video suggestions added to your IM
Sideklick - Get contextually relevant video suggestions added to your IM
Sightspeed - Voice & video over IP
Sitepal* - Design speaking animated avatars
Sitòfono - Receive calls from your website
Skylook - Record & store all Skype communications
Skype - Call, conference, messenger, file sharing
Slawesome - Add voice to your email
Social-mail - Email2RSS
Soonr - Mobile2web & v.v.
Spambob - Disposable email addresses
Spinvox - From voice to text to mobile or email
Springdoo - Add your voice to your email
Sproutit - Mailroom: process email together
Stickam* - Multimedia communication tool
Swarmthedotcom* - See how other people browse & chat (Firefox)
Talkplus - Get a second mobile number on your cell
Talkshoe - Chat, talk 1:1, host a talkshow
Talkster - Mobile2IM for free
Talktrust - Call anonymously
Tapgad - Get & reply to email thru sms
Teleflip - PC2Text
Tello - Locate & collaborate with your key contacts
Tempinbox - Receive inmail anonymously
Textmarks - Customize your own sms info service
Tjat - Mobile instant messaging
Truphone - Mobile VoiP
Trustmymail - Spam filter based on your circle of contacts
Tworl - Chat with strangers
Twttr - Share where you are thru your cell phone
Txtmob - Share sms messages with your friends
Userplane - Chat, messenger, record
V4s - Add voice to your email
Vanilla - Forum solution
Vennt - tag-based forum solution
Vicito - Group text service
Vringo - Share video ringtones with your friends when you call them
Wambo - IM, group messaging & media sharing
Waxmail - Add voice to your email
Web2messenger - Send messages from web 2 messenger
Webride - Add forum to any web page
Wiffiti* - Text your message to public screens
Yackpack - Group voicemail
Yakalike - Chat while you surf websites
Yoo-hoo - Put a Yoo-hoo in your signature, get an alert if someone tries to reach you
Youmail - Record unique voice mail recordings for anyone that calls you
Yousendit - Email large files
Yugma - Free web conferencing
Zemble - Communicate, collaborate & connect thru group text
Zlango - Icon language for sms
Zohochat - Create your own chat room
Zweitgeist - Meet & communicate with people on websites

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COMMUNITY 2.0 - Update

Since doing things together is the most important denominator of Web 2.0, you'll find many more symptoms of community forming in other categories. But COMMUNITY 2.0 is still a HUGE category. The funny thing with communities is that only few people really know what makes them tick. Finding a theme that makes people unite around a common interest isn't that difficult, but keeping them there - happy and active - and finding a sustainable reason to ask some money for being part of them (or to find other revenue streams) in most cases is still a challenge.

43people - Tag based matching & dating
43places - Publish & share stories about places
Adoppt - Publish & share
Aim - Myspace for AOL users
Amateurillustrator - Publish, rate & rank illustrations
Amiamo - Find things & people you like
Amiglia - Publish & share family trees, photos, maps…
Attendr - Mash-up your conference or party
Badged - Add your social networking badges to your blog
Battleout - Challenge & vote for best, biggest etc. whatever
Bebo - Find back school & college friends
Begreen - Here it's easy being green
Bibliochat - Get book excerpts and reviews, and discuss books - live
Biznik - Business network
Blackplanet - Community for African-Americans
Blogtronix - Blogging & corporate community software
Bookmooch - Exchange old books
Bookrevyoo - Social book review community
Bouldr - Share climbing (map mash-up)
Buurtlink~ - Find people, places & news in your hood
Cambrianhouse** - Collaborate on new software
Capazoo* - Create, publish & share your content
Chickadvisor* - Get & share advise on chicks in your city
Chipleaders - Poker community
Cingo - Keep your family together online
Citycita - Find likeminded people & meet them
Citytherapy - Share places, events & people
Collectivex - Communicate, share files & schedulas, group-wise
Comagz - Cocreate & rate content
Commongate - Create your own social network
Communitywalk - Share places & routes (map mash-up)
Consumating - Tag based dating
Corkd - Catalog, rate & review wine
Craftster - Share crafting ideas
Criticker - Rate films and get recommendations
Curbly - Share design & get advise on it
Customerforce - Search & share everything
Cyworld - Record, share & give
Dabble - Share, manage & explore your information
Daddaily - Community for dads
Dailystrength* - Share health challengres & get wellness support
Developerid - Community for web industry
Deviantart - Publish or buy from art portfolios
Dnaancestryproject - Trace & share your ancestry
Dodgeball - Hook in with your mobile & meet friends
Dollpalace - Create a doll & share it
Dontstayin - Clubber community (UK)
Doostang - Community for professionals
Downelink - Gay community
Dudecheckthisout - Store & share bookmarks, lists with friends
Eons - Babyboomers' community
Eroshare - Upload, explore, rate & share photos
Eroshare - Upload, explore, rate & share photos
Eventell - Create & share records of events
Evnt - Publish & share RL events
Exaroom - Connect to & share files with family & friends
Facebook - Student communities
Facebox - Publish your profile & media, and share with friends
Faceparty - Clubber community (UK)
Famster - Family community
Fanpop - Share bookmarks & meet fellow fanatics
Feelingbullish - Rate, view & discuss stocks
Flickrgraph - Visualize relationships inside Flickr
Flingr - Connect with people you've ever met
Fortuitos - Make friends by accident
Frappr - Put your group on the map, share photos
Friendping - Share map, media & bookmarks with friends
Friendsabroad - Meet & communicate with people globally
Friendster - Connect with friends
Frühstückstreff - Meet people for breakfast
Fuzzster - Meet pets & their owners
Gearon - Social mobile network around your cellphone's contacts (stealth)
Geek2geek - Find your geek match
Geesee - Provide chat services, or participate in chats
Geni - Create & share your family tree, in Ajax
Geotract - Share places & people
Gizmoojo - Geek community
Goingon - Always on network of networks
Goodreads - List, review & recommend books
Goop - Social tagging & more
Groovr - Text to & network with friends
Groups - Create groups & share content
Gusto - Share trips with friends & family
Hamsterster - Community for hamster lovers
Hashbush - Meet your friends' friends
Hi5 - Connect & share ideas with friends
Hobeez - Find & make friends people with similar hobbies
Holotof - Pitch your ad project among creatives
Hoovers - Manage & connect to your personal & corporate networks
Hotsoup - Community for political debate
Hotspots - Network for urban professionals
Hotspottin - Share your favorite hotspots
Hoverspot - Publish & share your profile
Humblevoice* - Publish, share bands, music, other media & arts
Hyves~ - Share your profile in hyves & meet friends
I4giveu - Confess, share & forgive
Ideawhip - Community for students, alumni, startups
Ikarma - Document & promote your reputation
Imagini* - Profile yourself with images & find people with similar visual DNA
Imbee - Secure networking & blogging for kids
Imity - Sense phones (and friends) around you thru Bluetooth
Industriouskid - Kid0friendly, parent-approved websites & apps
Invitika - Organize, report & share events thru your cell
Ipubble - List & promote your website & have it reviewed
Islandoo - Temporary (?) community for tv show's casting
Isport (olim Tiredandtested) - Sports community
Ittoolbox - Community for IT professionals
Iwiw - Find your friends
Jaiku - Social phone directory showing where you are (Nokia S60 2nd ed.)
Jambo - Discover who's nearby & reconnect live
Jibjab - Create & share your funniest stuff
Jyve - Find, meet & interact with Skype users
Karmadu - Thank people by sending them karma points
Karmus - Create, share & contribute to cards
Klostu - Aggregate all your communities in this one
Kluskring~ - Share ideas & knowledge on DIY
Konnects - Networking for professionals
Koolanoo - Jewish social network
Krawlerx - Create, search, share & build community around your media
Lightstalkers - Networking & discussion tools for professional travelers
Linkedin - Manage and share your cv
Livejournal - Join or create your own community
Loowa - Claim your email address, share your profile
Lostcherry - Social network for youngsters
Lovento - Find friends & events
Madville - Submit & share mad stuff
Mangezmangez - Publish, review & share restaurant information
Mapable - Build & share chatrooms & communities
Mapmix - Find your friends (map mash-up)
Mayasmom - Something with parenting
Meet-a-local - Find local hosts in other cities (German)
Meetro - Find friends nearby (thru messenger)
Meetup - Find common interests & organize meetings
Miaplaza - Connect with friends, family etc.
Mikons - Create & share your own icons
Minglenow - Connect with places & people
Minitellus - Share your experience with & meet students
Minti - Parents community
Mmotr - Automotive (dating) community
Mobber - Create instant community & chat while you surf
Mobiluck - IM, text & share media on your mobile
Mojizu - Create & share characters
Mologogo - Share where you are
Mommybuzz - Moms connect with moms
Moob - Party scene community
Mothersclick - Share knowledge on motherhood
Mozes - Share information & people thru your mobile
Musichawk - Share the artists you're into
Mycool - Search, create & share special interest groups
Mydeathspace - Directory of dead Myspace members
Myfreeimplants - Get a boob job or help her get one
Mygamma - Mobile community
Mymovienetwork - Community for filmmakers
Myspace - Communicate with & share content with your friends
Mystrands - Share your taste, get recommendations & party
Myvtc* - Share media & documents for generations to come
Neobinaries - Web 2.0 developers, users & experts
Neoows - Tag, comment, share & discuss news
Netomat - Share profiles, blogs, photos, etc
Nexo - Create & manage online groups
Onmycity - Upload, post & share everything locally
Openpeople - Invite your friends & explore your network
Opinity - Manage your reputation
Opmom - Community for mothers
Orgasms2~ - Share creativity & inspiration
Orkut - Connect to your friends
Outorin - Gated community
Pairup - Find & connect to fellow travelers
Partystrands* - Let partygoers interact with you & eachother IRL, mobile & online
Partysync - Meet & sms people
Peerprofile - Publish & share your profiles
Peertrainer - Buddy up, slim down
Peopleaggregator - Create or join networks, build & connect your community
Phusebox - Community for sophisticated people
Pickupgame* - Find people locally to play games
Piczo - Create & share website
Pinbc - Pakistani int'l business and (?!) family networking
Pissr - People in search of gender neutral restrooms
Placesite - Wi-fi portal & location communities
Playdo* - Gaming community
Playtxt - Socialize, flirt thru sms
Plazes*** - Claim & share your locations
Plum - Collect, share, connect
Poddater - Create vodcast & connect
Pooln - Schedule your car pooling
Popist* - Social networking
Postsecret* - Publish & share secrets
Preventionweb - UN disaster risk reduction community.

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CRM 2.0 - Update

In a world where more and more of the same is becoming the most compelling business proposition, it is extremely hard to make a product stand out in the crowd. We've worn out all of our famous 4 P's long ago - until the level where only rubbing in our brands into the brains of our target groups seemed a sustainable way to distinguish ourselves. But brands are becoming less and less interesting to our customers. Because, once again, all brands are becoming more and more of the same boring same. Therefore I think branding is also a dead end track.Customers want a good product, or a good service - nothing less, nothing more.Up till now we have been using - or abusing - technology in the same way we abused marketing communications - namely mainly as a means to rationalize our operations. To undress our services to the bone. To make our operations more efficient. To make our sales more effective. To improve our margins - preferrably without adding value to our delivery.Probably one of the most destructive abuses in the history of business has been in automating customer services. Where concepts for self help are presently more popular than concepts to improve a customer's experience. Where premium rate voice response systems lead us into waiting queues, and - only if we're lucky - into the hands of students who read their answers from computer generated Q & A scripts.What's so entirely wrong about these concepts, is that they completely ignore the fact that only a small percentage of our customers are in fact self sufficient, and even a smaller percentage want to be self sufficient. We've always known this. The art and science of direct marketing has learned us since World War 2 that only a minor part of our markets can be developed through customers who don't need a normal dose of service. Nevertheless, we're presently trying to push complete user bases into the lame claws of our CRM systems.What most people really want is simply to get appropriate service, especially when they need it, the moment they need it. More service. Better service. Service that makes their lives easier instead of more difficult. Service that takes away hassles. Service that enables them to spend their precious time on things that are worth wile. Service that honestly tries to give them a better customer experience.In a future where we will dominantly have to live with one person markets, we'll have to live with customers who don't accept that they are shouted at, through advertising, and who won't accept that they have to maintain a dialogue with a software. The future of commercial communications AND of services is in H2H. Human to Human.*
"Social CRM" or "Customer helps Customer" already is a widely spread practice in the world of consumer forums. Many of these forums and boards are excellent exponents of "Web 2.0", although they're often much older than that term. Most of the solutions below are aiming at reducing customer delight; only some elements of these solutions and cases may contribute to a better Social CRM practice. This niche is largely open for new concepts!

24sevenoffice - Web-based crm & erp
Ebase - Web-based community CRM
E-tranet - CRM
Fixya - Social helpdesk
Honeypitch* - Proposal automation solution
Interactionchat - Chat with your site's visitors
Pushcrm - Web-based crm
Relenta - CRM tool set
Simpleticket - Helpdesk solution
Sky-click - VoIP call center solution
Solve360 - Groupware CRM
Sugarcrm - Open source CRM
Tickethappy - Shared CRM management
Userscape - Web-based help desk portal
Visiblepath - Relationship management tools
Vtiger - Open source CRM
Zohocrm - Web-based crm
Zolved - Users help users to solve computer problems


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*Text of presentation for Club of Amsterdam seminar, 2005.

DATA 2.0 - Update

Ambientdevices* - Datacasting inc. interfaces
Clearforestsws - Semantictextanalysis2XML
Data360 - Find, present & share data
Datamashups - Create mash-ups & apps
Swivel - Publish & share data


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DATE 2.0 - Update

The links below only represent a fragment of the dating market. Although I think that dating isn't even really Web 2.0 (1 to 1-sharing can't be very social, isn't it?), the sector is interesting because it's quite mature, a lot of money is going 'round, and some of that is spent on innovations that sometimes spill over to real 2.0 categories. Of course a lot more flirting & dating is going on in the category COMMUNITIES 2.0.

Airtroductions - 8 miles high dating
Casabobo~ - Put youraself on the map & date
Collaboradate - Meta dating website
Conservativematch - Only for rednecks
Desnackbar~ - Find the one you want to have a snack with
Doubledate - Pair up with friends
Eharmony - Dating for not so young people
Engage - Matchmake for your friends
Flirtomatic - Flirt & date
Gottaflirt - Flirt game
Greatboyfriends - Post & match your brother's or sister's profile
Hobnobster - Web and mobile community & social bookmarking
Honestyfirst - Dating for honest people
Hotornot - Geo dating (map mash-up)
Impersonals - Date without being creepy
Itsjustlunch - Lunch dating for professionals
Kisstokiss - Dating
Matchactivity - Connect to likeminded people
Meetmoi - Mobile dating
Paird - Social matchmaking
Plentyoffish - Reallyreallyreally free dating service
Rateordate* - Crowd match, singles event maps, online dating
Singlesearch - Two way matchmaking
Social21 - Be matched & date
Subwaycrush - Dating(?)
Tantricsoulmateconnection - Matching based on horoscopes etc.
Tickme* - Find someone you like, tick him/her & see if he/she ticks you back
Togetherdating - Dating after personal introduction
True - Dating, free of married people and other criminals
Verbdate - Speak up before you date
Wecheese - Proximity based dating
Yesnomayb - Find, get introduced to & date with people with same tastes
Youmeus - Relationship advice community


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DBASE 2.0 - Update

Since databasing is one of the most important niches in the software market, it's surprising how few pure dbase players I've found so far. Am I missing something? To compensate this a bit, I've dumped my research on treemaps - an attractive trick to present complicated data in one view. Furthermore, many interesting things regarding the presentation of complex data are going on in all kinds of mash-ups...

Amazontreemap - Treemap example with "All Digital Cameras"; many more at this link
Flexdirectory - List people, groups, jobs
Flickrgraph** - Visualize your network on Flickr
Hivegroup - Treemap specialist
HivePM - Treemap for product management
HivePPM - Treemap for purchasing performance management
HiveSM - Treemap for sales management
Honeycomnewsmap* - News treemap
Itunestreemap - Track the iTines Top 100 songs as they move up and down the charts
Kowari - Store, retrieve or analyse metadata
Lazybase - Create, manage & share databases
Merit - Treemap for Marine Corps Equipment Readiness Information Tool
Peetscom - Treemap product comparison
Perspectives** - Visualizes spatio-temporaly the places we inhabit
Powehousemuseum - Contribute to museum object folksonomy
Regger - Datamine your blog
Socialcircles* - Visualizes relations in an email database
Turbodbadmin - Online dbase in Ajax


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DESIGN 2.0 - Update

You'll find many more cool apps like the ones in the list below when you search the web for them systematically - or accidentally, through Stumbleupon, where they are deliciously over-represented.

Ajaxsketch - Create drawings & diagram
Betterdesktop - Share usability tests
Browsershots - View thumbs of your website in all browsers
Bulletprooflinks - Share tutorials, tools & templates
Buttonator - Drag, drop & share web buttons
Colorblender - Color picker & matcher
Colorcell - Find beautiful color combinations
Colorschemer - Explore color schemes
Colourlovers - View, are & review color schemes
Colrpickr - Color picker
CSSbeauty - Submit & share well designed websites
Dontclickit*** - Clickless interface
Flashpaint - Draw & share pictures
Flickrlogomakr - Make Flickr-like logo in a second
Flowermaker - Design flowers
Fonttester - Compare fonts side by side online
Gogofrog* - Create & share your 3D web page
Kancept - Submit design concepts and have them reviewed & rated by other users
Kuler - Publish, rate & share color schemes
Linkgrab - Submit & share links on design
Mockingbird - Collaborative design (Stealth)
Multi-touch* - Handy interface
Netcocktail - Share color schemes
Neurosky - Bionic interface technology
OK-cancel - Collaboration on interface design
Pixelgroup - Draw anything with others
Rasterbator - Creates rasterized images
Sketchup - Create & view things in 3D
Snipshot - Edit pics online (a.k.a. Pixoh)
Teapotters - Publish, explore & share 3D design
Typetester - Compare screen type
Webbrush - Collaborative drawing, charting, etc
Wufoo - Build & host forms
Picture2life - Edit pics online
Kancept - Submit design concepts and have them reviewed & rated by other users


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DIG 2.0 - Update

This category was created for the most typical Digg&Pligg-like web sites. Most of the websites below are small scale experiments that seem to have died on the day they were launched. The last time I looked, 3Spots was still trying to keep up with all new Digg-like initiatives.

Adveracious - Digg advertizing news
Backfence - Publish & share community news
Betamarker - Digg software
Bitsofnews - Submit, read, rank & discuss news
Blinkr - Digg design
Blogmemes - Vote for & share memes
Bloodee - Digg horror
Britney - Recommend, publish & digg next big hits
Care2 - Digg sustainable things
Catster - Digg cats
Curious-contraptions - Digg this forum
Dailyrss - Digg RSS news
Diggfiltr - Create custom digg feeds
Diggstack - See diggers fall on active stories
Diggswarm - See diggers swarm around active stories
Diggtrends - Digg deeper
Dissectmedicine - Digg articles on medicine
Dogster - Digg dogs
Dotherightthing* - Dig or diss companies
Dotnetkicks - Digg .net stories
Duggtrends - Meta Digg
Dzone - Digg for developers
Eatmyhamster - Digg for videos, pix & jokes
Fanaticzone - Digg sports
Gibbity - Digg games
Googlekicks - Digg Google news
Hypediss* - Hype or diss stories
Idigdeals - Digg deals
Idigporn - Digg porn
Iliketototallyloveit - Digg the things you love
Inchicks - Digg for women
Italknews - Digg news & get paid for it
Iusethis - Digg, discover, check & organize your apps
Javakicks - Digg Java news
Jazznoodle - Digg politics
Linkfilter - Digg news
Livelocker - Digg multimedia
Mackicks - Digg Mac news
Meme-stream - Digg funny things
Memigo - Digg news
Metafilter - Digg web projects
Mochimention - Leave & share comments & ratings anywhere online
Motorpulse - Digg cars
Mozillakicks - Digg Mozilla news
Netscape - Edited & dug news
Newsbump - Digg news
Newscloud - Digg news
Oks - Digg news
Pickstation* - Listen to & digg music tracks
Pixelmo - Digg games
Podcastalley - Digg podcasts
Polidiggs - Digg political news
Protolize - Digg web tools
Qoolsqool - Digg school knowledge
Quadriot - Digg strange news
Reddit - Digg news
Relishio - Digg news
Rendezvoo - Digg what you like, pay for premium placement
Scooop - Digg news (scoops)
Scoopity - Digg gossip
Sharepointkicks - Digg Sharepoint news
Shoutwire - Digg news
Showbloggers - Digg tv shows
Shutterseek - Digg photography news
Skimcss - Digg CSS
Songrio - Digg music tracks
Spankwire - Digg porn
Sperocite - Spiritual Digg
Spinspy - Digg links
Sportsblink - Digg sports news
Taghop - Digg links
Theadreview - Digg advertizing
Thenorp - Digg porn links
Widgipedia - Digg widgets
Xboxkicks - Digg Xbox news
Yardbarker - Digg sports news
Youpickthenews - Digg news
Zapzap - Digg podcasts


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DRM 2.0 - Update

Surprisingly few initiatives in this category.

Copyscape - Find out who steals your content
Googlemark - Register your words
Lisensa - Manage your digital rights through licensing
Mecenax - Donate & enjoy drm protected content
Myfreecopyright - Upload, digital fingerprint & publish
Numly - Tag & protect your content with serial numbers (formerly ESBN)


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ECOMMERCE 2.0 - Update

You'll find aspects of ecommerce and "content commerce" in many other Web 2.0 categories - wherever the founders are concerned about creating more or less serious revenue streams around their ventures. Since the fall of 2006 I only add cases that have something original to show.

43deals - Find best deals
Adgenta - Add ads to your site, blog or rss feed
Amazon* - Shop, sell, review & rank
Ándale - Small online business sales tools
Apartmentratings - Rent after reading tenant's review & rating
Auctionmapper - Find auctioned goods nearby (mash-up)
Aytozon - Comparison shopping from Amazon & Ebay
Baeboo - Shop comparison
Bigcartel - Start, review & recommend online shops
Blish - Buy or sell your media
Blockrocker - Buy & sell thru classifieds; map mash-up
Blogbuy - Social market place
Bloggerkit - Let Amazon exploit your blog
Booksforschool - Buy & sell used text books
Broadbandgenie - Find best provider
Butlerbob~ - Advertise, find, book & buy concierge services
Cafépress - Design, sell, buy
Carbonmade - Publish & manage your portfolio online
Cellitused** - Sell your cell
Clipfire - Shop search engine & community
Closo - Start & advertise your online shop
Cogteeth - Create T-shirt with personal coded message
Cooqy - Find things faster on Ebay (client)
Correlates - Parallel product search
Cottonrape* - Shopping game
Coverpop - Mash-ups of everything
Craigslist* - Post & read classifieds
Crowdstorm - Add & research products & share opinions
Darmik - Sell & share profits with charities
Dawanda - Social market place for people producing or buying handicraft (private beta)
Dealbundle - Rate & share deals
Dealcritic - Digg offers
Dealmine - Personalize your best deals
Dealplumber - Find deals & coupons
Dealsplus - Share hot deals
Dealtagger - Find & share good deals
Diversetrade - European alternative to (higher rates of) Ebay
Dnastylelab - Design, wear & share your own products
Dsimobile - Start an mvno network
Ebay* - Sell, rate & buy; auction
Ebaywiki - Wiki on things you can buy & sell
Edoc* - Fashion ecommerce goes alternate reality game
Elkhuistekoop~ - Rate & pick your restaurants
Emongoo - Tools & marketplace to sell your property
Etsy - Buy & sell handmade things
Farecast - Get alerts for flight fares at your level
Fashmatch - Match your clothes
Fatfingers - Get better deals on Ebay thanks to typos
Favoritethingz - Create a badge with your favorite things, give it esposure & earn money
Fivelimes - Green shop aggregator
Flipadisc - Trade media
Flippid - Post what you need, and get an offer
Flyspy - Graph all of your choices in air travel
Fotogopo - Animated local route map; Google Maps & Geocoder mash-up
Froogle* - Local shopping search engine; Google Maps mash-up
Frucall - Mobile price comparison
Garbagescout - Find treasures on NY streets; Google Maps mash-up
Goodstorm - Resell stuff thru your blog
Googlebooks - Publish & sell access to your? books
Greenleafmarket* - Buy or sell local products
Gumshoo - Auction analyzer; Ebay mash-up
Hawkee - Tagged price comparison
Hngry - Rate & pick your restaurants
Homethinking - Search, find, contact & review realtors
Hotpads - Houses for rent
Igglo - Get buy alerts for houses that aren't for sale yet (Finnish)
Imagekind - Start your own art galery online
Innertee - Design, mix, wear, share & sell
Inods - Shopping review aggregator
Insideflyer - Convert loyalty points
Insiderpages - Social directory guide
Iqzone - Upload photo & text for classified ads thru your cell phone
Jellyfish - Shopping search engine
Judysbook - Review & rate your neighbourhood
Kapaza~ - Free classified ads marketplace
Kayak - Price comparison with user input for travel
Kayakbuzz - Find cheap destinations; Google Maps mash-up
Külist - Search, compare, bookmark best prices
Lala - Swam CDs, from July 4th
Licketyship - Home-delivery supermarket; retail & couriers co-operation
Licketytrip - Last minute vacation rentals (map mash-up)
Lightenment - Publish & share reviews of gadgets
Limbo41414 - Dutch auction
Listd - Accelerate your Ebay listings
Localspring - Social yellow pages directory
Lopico - Social business directory
Mapeire - User generated lowest price finder; Google Maps mash-up
Mashmap - Find movies & showtimes (map mash-up)
Moblee - Opt in to offers direct to your mobile
Mobo - Order food on the go, get discounts & avoid waiting lines
Mobsaver - Price comparison thru your cell
Modoshi - Shopping community
Motionmall - Design & insert webads
Motormapusa - Locate or find vehicle for sale on Ebay
Mpire - Track price trends when you shop
Mrdealio - Compare & track prices
Mynewplace - Find & rent your new home
Mystyledesigns - Your body, your shape, your clothes - mass customized
Mytriggers - Price comparison alert services
Nakedandangry - Design & share your wallpapers
Nestoria - Property search
Offertrax - RSS-based shopping alerts
Onsofts - Ebay & Amazon combined shopping search
Ourstockworks - Upload, sell or buy stockphotos
Paguna - Travel booking with 1 page Ajax interface
Peerflix - List & trade DVDs
Pricenoia - Amazon price comparison
Pricheck - Check prices continuously
Qloud - Social music search & buy service
Qoop - Publish & sell photos & photo products
Redtoucan - Share photos & review products
Reevoo - Review & buy electronics
Rentmeavacation - Share your vacation homes
Revver - Upload, share or sell your videos
Rightcart - Sell your own or 3d parties' stuff on your site
Savedsearchpro - Find Ebay deals easier
Savemyass - Send your wife flowers frequently
Sexycanvas~ - View & purchase erotic art (browse through tastefully decorated rooms or upload an image of your own room to experience the works in various settings).
Shoposphere* - Create & share pick lists
Siteflavoredgoogle* - Tailor adwords to your site
Sizeasy - Compare sizes of online goods with everyday items
Skombo - Sell & buy rare music
Slister - Bookmark & list products
Solomodels - Upload, commicate with, vote for, hire or buy from photographers & models
Souki~ - Local shop search
Spotscout - Find or sell parking space
Spreadshirt* - Design, buy or sell your T's
Spymedia - Publish & sell news photos
Start12*~ - Find, compare & review online service providers
Streeteasy - Share shopping info
Stuffspace - List & share what you own & what you want
Stylefeeder - Find, share & keep track of cool products
Stylehive - Get recommendations fitting your product interests
Subscribecast - Sell content thru RSS-based subscription format
Superstart - Personalized shopping portal (Swedish)
Swapsimple - Trade your media
Switchdiscs - Trade media online
Tastydrop - Submit & rate wines
Tenbills - Design & buy your T
Terk~ - Meta search for articles
Thandora - Tag based search in yellow pages
Themintpages - Recommend & share reviews on beauty products
Thisnext - Shopping recommendation network
Threadless - Submit & rate T-shirt designs
Tictap - Price comparison for mobile
Tnook - Build, manage & trade your collections
Trabber - Search 30 websites for cheap flights
Triporama - Plan, research & book trips together
Trustedopinion - Social recommendations engine (with visualisation of trusted circle of friends)
Uask - Sell or buy for the price you want
Usuggest - Shop, suggest & make money
Viewr - Publish on map & buy or sell homes, globally
Vitalsource - Publish & sell or buy books
Watchingthewebflyby - Animated logo race
Watchthisnext - Vote for & buy DVDs
Wazima - Coupon aggregator
Web20milliondollarhomepage - Pixel ads
Web2carz - Shop for cars, publish & share reviews of dealers
Weedshare - Play, buy, share & sell music
Whabam - Search, buy & sell
Whatsbuzzing - Search, browse & discover products with a buzz
Whowouldbuythat - Anti-ecommerce
Wikology - Business directory wiki
Wipbox - Benchmark how to price your products
Wists - Share shopping lists
Wize - Product review aggregator
Wuraweb - Find local prices & credentials
Yelp - Find, review & discuss local restaurants etc
Yokel - Find best prices for products near you
Yub - Meet, hang & get discounts in shopping mall
Ywoosh~ - Find or sell houses
Zazzle - Design, sell & buy custom goods
Zebo - List & share what you own & what you want
Zeedive - Dutch auction
Zillow - Get your home valuated (map mash-up)
Zipingo - Find local business based on community input
Zixxo - Create & distribute online coupons
Zlio - Social commerce
Zlio - Create your shop & inventory in 5 minutes
Zoook~ - Marketplace with video ads
Zunafish - Buy & sell old media items
Citycribs - Real estate marketplace


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