01 May 2008

Buzz 2.0 - Update: Whatchamacallit***

If Whatchamacallit doesn't make it as a buzz word, the whole article by Bernard Lunn should at least reach some cult status.

Update 080506: just added Global Graph, also Giant Global Graph (used here by Tim Berners-Lee, endorsed here by Kevin Kelly).

Callercomplaints - Figure out who is calling you, and make them stop

Sososher* - Smart pre-launch promotion

I've stopped indexing stealth, alpha and pre-beta placeholder pages a long while ago (most of them never come alive).
But this one surely shows enough dedication and fun to make an exception.

Sososher's pre-launch "features include a News Letter sign up, playable MP3, an iPhone with a countdown timer – informing you of the launch date, links to our Face Book Fan Page and MySpace page, a flash puzzle - as and when there are further developments and the launch date gets nearer the hand will place another piece of the jigsaw on the desk, slowly revealing what Sososher is all about."

30 April 2008

Every EVERYTHING 2.0 shortlist

3D 2.0: 59 three dimensional 2.0 things

ABOUT 2.0: 116 secondary sources on developments in Web 2.0

ART 2.0: 21 ways to collaborate on, showcase, promote & share your art or put it up for sales

AUCTION 2.0: 20 ways to buy or sell goods & services through auctions

AUDIO 2.0: 331 ways to edit, mix, remix, publish, explore, tag, rate, share & maybe make some money on (free) fx, sounds, music, podcasts & internet

AUTOMOTIVE 2.0: 20 sources that help you to repair, sell or share (your love for) cars

AVID 2.0: 71 ways to download, capture, edit, mix, remix, convert, encode, subtitle, manipulate, animate, add sfx to, vodcast, share or sell videos

BI 2.0: 7 web based business intelligence solutions

BLOGGING 2.0: close to 344 ways to publish, spice up, promote, analyze & even make a few bucks on your blog, phlog or vlog

BOOKMARKING 2.0: 223 ways to validate, annotate, rate, manage, explore & share interesting links, and/or to promote your blog

BOOKS 2.0: 65 ways to enhance your reading, book collecting or writing experience

BRANDING 2.0: 17 ways to name, design, improve, interactivate, track, analyze & promote your 2.0 brand

BRILLIANT 2.0: 545 Web 2.0 phenomena with one or more strokes (*) of genius

BROWSER 2.0: 41 web & media browsers & browser plugins for your pc or cell

BUSINESS 2.0: 56 tools & sources that can help you to start up, organize, manage, improve, promote, sell & network for a company

CALCULATOR 2.0: 6 online calculator tools

CALENDAR 2.0: 87 ways to book, schedule, organize, manage & share or opt in to meetings, flash mobs, events & parties

CAPTURING 2.0: 61 ways to download, grab, clip, datbase, organize, manage, edit, mix, publish & share or make money on data, pics, music & video

CHATTING 2.0: 68 ways to participate in, start or improve your own independent or integrated special chat

CHILDREN 2.0: 9 kid-friendly services

CMS 2.0: 147 content management solutions for portals, blogs, mags, chats, ranking sites, wikis, forums, communities,

CODING 2.0: 211 tools, sources, communities, libraries, repositories, platforms & frameworks for programmers & interaction designers

COLLABORATING 2.0: 244 sites where you can share & work together on ideas, documents, projects, sales, knowledge databasing, software, media & art

COMICS 2.0: 26 ways to create, render, upload, publish, share cartoons, strips & animations

COMMUNICATING 2.0: 65 special communication solutions

COMMUNITY 2.0: 726 ways to find back old or make new friends, to share & exchange emotions, opinions, content & other things you care about

CONTACT MANAGEMENT 2.0: 36 ways to database, manage, access, share & communicate with your contacts

CONTENT 2.0: 25 special ways to organize, publish, protect & share content

CONTENT COMMERCE 2.0: 208 ways to make a buck on creating, publishing & selling your texts, photos, music, video, software, game assets, etc.

CRM 2.0: 77 ways to organize your pipeline & sales a/o to socialize relationship management

DATA 2.0: 76 ways to build, visualize, organize, manage, search, analyze, protect, publish & share data

DATABASE 2.0: 139 ways to systematically explore, list, catalog, manage, publish & share bibliographies, discographies & other collections

DATING 2.0: 54 special, more or less social or open or random or funny, kinds of dating

DEAD 2.0: 5 more casualties in Web 2.0

DESIGN (ARCHITECTURAL -) 2.0: 11 sources for lovers of architecture & interior design

DESIGN (GRAPHICAL) 2.0: 68 online sources for graphic designers

DESIGN (INTERACTION -) 2.0: 77 sites where you can create, test, share or sell templates, forms, tours, buttons, favicons, maps & other front end design

DESIGN (PRODUCT -) 2.0: 40 sites where you can (learn how to) create & buy or sell your own stuff

DESIGN (TYPOGRAPHICAL) 2.0 - 11 sources for lovers of U&LC

DICTIONARY 2.0: 20 sources for lovers of words, quotes & other lexicographic candies

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT 2.0: 48 ways to store, manage, edit, share & collaborate on documents

DRM 2.0: 13 ways to protect & manage your intellectual properties online

DUTCH 2.0: 179 Web 2.0-ish companies

ECOMMERCE 2.0: 593 ways to commercialize consumers' inclinations to collaborate, co-buy, review, rate & (geo)tag your shop's inventory & service

ECONOMY 2.0: 254 ways to ignore making a profit, or to ignore economical laws in other inspiring ways - online

EDUCATION 2.0: 17 services relevant to schools

E-LEARNING: 50 ways to faciliate, improve & promote distant learning

EMAIL 2.0: 149 variations on email

ENTERPRISE 2.0: 115 thin business critical solutions

EVENTS 2.0: 110 ways to search, select & invite for, book, organize & manage meetings & events

EXCEL 2.0: 14 ways to share spreadsheets

FAMILY 2.0: 46 ways to better track, manage, share knowledge on, do things with & communicate with your family

FASHION 2.0: 21 sites & apps where you can design, match & sell or buy original socks, T's & other fashion

FAX 2.0: 8 services connecting the web to the fax

FILE SHARING 2.0: 130 ways to upload, collaborate on & swap or share media & data

FINANCE 2.0: 154 ways to track, manage your investments, invoicing, expenses, loans, allowances online & a few ideas to disrupt the financial sector

FOOD 2.0: 47 ways to enjoy recipes, food, coffee, tea, wine & beer, restaurants & bars, lunch & dinner

FORUM 2.0: 60 forum & bulletin board solutions (last century's trailblazers of the social web!)

FUN 2.0: 49 parodies on Web 2.0-ish mantras, attitudes, styles, concepts & businesses

GAMBLING 2.0: 40 ways to bet on sports, stocks, etc.

GAMING 2.0: 189 ways to have fun with or make some money on games

GAY 2.0: 7 social things for gays & lesbians

GEO 2.0: 273 smart, funny or scary ways to create & explore maps

GEO LOCATION 2.0: 28 ways to dynamically locate people & places

GREEN 2.0: 19 sites where you can discuss & collaborate on environmental matters

GUIDE 2.0: 77 social directory guides

HEALTH 2.0: 62 ways to maintain & improve your health

HEREAFTER 2.0: 15 concepts extending your life to the future a/o the hereafter

HOME 2.0: 24 ways to swap, rent, buy, sell or improve your home

IDENTITY 2.0: 138 ways to manage your identity & reputation

ILLUSTRATING 2.0: 23 tools to sketch, draw, map & mock up online

IM 2.0: 140 instant messenger apps

IMAGING 2.0: 77 ways to create, animate or manipulate images

IRL 2.0: 21 blended concepts, connecting digital & real life

KNOWLEDGE 2.0: 248 ways to enhance & share your knowledge

LEGAL 2.0: 19 ways to deliver, manage & execute legal matters

LIFESTREAMING 2.0: 25 ways to instantly share your presence online

LIST 2.0: 112 ways to catalog, database

LOGISTICS 2.0: four web-enhanced transportation solutions

MARKETING 2.0: 374 ways to promote

MECOMMERCE 2.0: 41 tools to sell things because they are about YOU

MOBILITY 2.0: 24 new ways to experience transport

MOVIES 2.0: 29 cool sites to review, recommend & share films

MULTIMEDIA 2.0: 202 ways to explore & share dynamic media

MUSIC 2.0: 229 ways to find, select & listen to, or make money on music

NEWS 2.0: 193 tools to select or publish news

NOMADS 2.0: 25 tools for people on the move

NOTES 2.0: 71 ways to take, make & share notes

OFFICE 2.0: 17 tools that mimick or resemble MS Office

OPERATING SYSTEM 2.0: 39 Web OS alternatives

ORGANIZING 2.0: 128 ways to get more out of your time & team

PDF 2.0: 10 ways to create & convert pdf files

PERSONAL MANUFACTURING 2.0: 55 ways to design, prototype or make your tea, T-shirt, muesli, machine parts

PHONE 2.0: 547 telecom services

PHOTO 2.0: 336 ways to edit, upload, share, search, buy or sell pictures

PORN 2.0: 35 variations on adult, user qualified a/o generated sleaze

PRESENTATION 2.0: 39 ways to overwhelm your audience while avoiding Powerpoint

PRINTING 2.0: 13 ways to print your stuff on demand

PRODUCTIVITY 2.0: 215 ways to organize yourself & your team

PSP 2.0: 28 ways to pay or get paid

PUBLISHING 2.0: 757 ways to express yourself

RADIO 2.0: 45 ways to get or make web radio

RATING 2.0: 385 samples of digging, ranking & recommending

REAL ESTATE 2.0: 53 new ways to swap, buy, let, or sell a house

RECRUITING 2.0: 167 ways to manage your career, or find talent

REPUTATION 2.0: 25 ways to manage your online reputation

RESEARCH 2.0: 91 ways to conduct, analyse & participate in online r&d

RETAIL 2.0: eight concepts that connect retail with etail

RSS 2.0: 301 ways to process, publish & share feeds

SALES 2.0: 18 useful things to organize & enhance sales

SCIENCE 2.0: 7 ways to explore, publish & share science info

SEARCH 2.0: 621 ways to find things

SECURITY 2.0: 19 ways to make this web a better place

SEMANTICS 2.0: 27 fuzzy ways to extract, search & analyse & data

SERVICE COMMERCE 2.0: 110 ways to sell, promote or buy small services

SMS 2.0: 49 more or less social text services

SNAILMAIL 2.0: 6 services connecting postal mail with the web

SOCIAL SOFTWARE 2.0: 73 ways to create communities & social media

SPORTS 2.0: 64 ways to explore & share sports media

STARTPAGE 2.0: 90 ways to create & share a personal portal

START-UP 2.0: 19 ways to plan & promote your start-up

STATS 2.0: 86 ways to track & analyze performance

STOCKS 2.0: 26 ways to track, discuss, rate, trade in, comment & share your knowledge & analysis on stocks - and explore predictive modelling

STORAGE 2.0: 223 services to store, backup & share files

TAGGING 2.0: 94 samples of putting labels to content, people & things

TASKS 2.0: 55 ways to keep an eye on tasks and chores

TELECONFERENCE 2.0: 10 ways to mimick a (video)phone conference over the web

TEST 2.0: 22 smart ways to test skills & software

TRANSLATING 2.0: 11 samples

TRAVEL 2.0: 122 ways to search & book trips, and co-publish tips

TREEMAPS 2.0: 16 links singing the love of presenting complex data sets

TV 2.0: 108 cool ways to watch & produce tv over ip

URL 2.0: 24 ways to find, generate, register & promote domain names, shorten URLs & generate URL-based IDs,

VAS 2.0: 84 remarkable services with a (potential) added value

VIDEO 2.0: 513 ways to edit, search, cast & protect video

VIDEOCOM 2.0: 18 special apps to talk face to face over the web

VISUALIZATION 2.0: 78 ways to visualize complex data sets

VOICE 2.0: 48 special ways to make your voice heard online

WIDGETS 2.0: 49 cool ways to unbundle content & services, and some more sources of cool widgetty stuff

WI-FI 2.0: 35 samples

WIKI 2.0: 61 ways to build, manage, share & co-publish encyclopedic knowledge

WORD 2.0: 22 ways to process words online (some collaboratively)

WRITING 2.0: 72 ways to write, process, publish, promote & collaborate on texts, poems, stories, scripts & books

DEAD 2.0: 5 more casualties in Web 2.0

Italic = new in this index. Related categories: ALL. For earlier updates cf. INDEX 2.0.

Azareus (now: Vuze) - Distribute bandwidth & share content - Coding

Edgeio - Find classified listings, publish your own - Marketing

Fauxto (now: Splashup) - Photo editor - Photo

Netscape (now: Propeller.com) - Edited & dug news - Rating

Youswap (now: Eatlime) - Store & send - Storage


180n - Choose what's news - News

3Dplanets - VR chat community - Communicate

Abetx - Auction betting exchange - Gamble

Ajchat - Create chat rooms - Communicate

Alexadex* (now: Urladex) - Buy & sell shares in sites - Game

Almondrocks - Share feeds - RSS

Ándale - Small online business sales tools - Ecommerce

Babamix - Upload, mix & share your media - Multimedia

Barewiki (now: Ottowiki) - Make a wiki in seconds - Publish

Beedeo - Upload & share videos - Video

Beeplet~ - Set up reminders & get alerts - RSS

Betafy - Get alerts about new Web 2.0 companies - About

Betbutler (now Danbook.com) - Betting exchange - Gamble

Betfanatic - Betting exchange - Gamble

Bettr - Vote on best Flickr photos - Images

Betxc - Betting exchange - Gamble

Binexx - Bet on stocks - Gamble

Blabb - Social bookmarking - Bookmark

Blogbeat (acquired by Feedburner) - Compare websites' Alexa rankings (formerly known as Alexaholic) - Stats

Blogbuy - Social market place - Ecommerce

Blogdex - Folksonomied blog topics selection - News

Bluepuddle - Create & enrich maps - Geo

Bluevex - Bet on sports & stocks - Gamble

Blufr - Multi-player trivia knowledge game - Game

Bookmarkme - Help create & download bookmarks - Bookmark

Brainjams - Share knowledge & collaborate on ideas - Knowledge

Breakinglocals - Local artists and fans community - Audio

Bringalink - Submit better links on front page articles' content - Bookmark

Broadmining - Meta search - Search

Brokenotbeat - Donate to a needy person each day - Economy

Bulletin* - Share data & mash them up with geo information - Geo

Buymyprofile - Buy or sell ad space on profile pages - Marketing

Camraoke - Submit, rate & share karaoke videos - Video

Casabobo~ - Put youraself on the map & date - Date

Cellpedia - Search for mobile phones - Search

Chipleaders (now Partypoker.com) - Poker community - Community

Collaborativerank - Search & rank - Search

Combots - Communicate & share emoti(c)ons 1 to 1 - Communicate

Correlates - Parallel product search - Ecommerce

Coursecafe - Share online research - Knowledge

Crowdiq - Social delphi; set up your own exchange for futures - Game

Delineate - Ranks top websites with Delicious tags & Alexa data - Data

Democracy (now: Miro) - Internet tv platform (client) - Video

Diggnews - Bookmark, rank & share interesting news - News

Diggol - Track your news & blogs on your own news page - News

Dodloo - Shopping info aggregator - Search

Dpolls - Create, vote for & search polls - Survey

Ecityxista - Buy internet real estate to increase traffic - Marketing

Egorss - Create meta feeds - RSS

Elite128 - Betting exchange - Gamble

Eurotopmodel~ - Rate photo models (map mash-up) - Geo

Eventell - Create & share records of events - Community

Excio - Geotag your blog & share it - Geo

Facebox - Now Netlog.com - Community

Fanaticzone - Digg sports - Dig

Feedcatch - Manage your feeds (now Feedshake) - RSS

Feedweaver - Add ads based on keywords you select to your website - Marketing

Fold - Personal portal (stopped) - Startpage

Fotograb* - Participate in & create photo treasure hunts - Game

Frugalbetty - Manage your spendings - Finance

Fundamentalee - Due diligence portal - Finance

Fygo - Connect to network, borrow or lend money - Finance

Fyuze - Feed portal - Startpage

Gadabe* - RSS metasearch (relaunched as Tagjag) - Search

Genielab - Explore, recommend & rate music - Audio

Geourl - Location 2 URL directory - Search

Getyourdaily - Compile & share your daily news - News

Giftornot - Get ideas for gifts (Amazon mash-up) - List

Googlecircles - Find common interest groups - Search

Googl-r - Views Google news as a tag cloud - News

Goop - Social tagging & more - Community

Groopus - Visualize your social context based on tags - Tag

Grouper (now Crackle.com) - Upload, create & share media - Multimedia

Groupsharp (acquired by HubSpot) - Share data, files & wikis - Productivity

Gtalkr (founders took job at Google) - Google Talk, Flickr, YouTube, feeds - Communicate

Helpwinmybet - Help this guy to get laid in a 3some - Economy

Homper - Personal portal - Portal

Hotxt (now Trutap) - Skype for sms - Communicate

Iamsearched - Are you googled-notification service - Search

Ilovemynanny - Nanny jobs & support - Employment

Imagegravy - Host & sell images - Images

Immediat - Messenger notifications of feeds - RSS

Imobio - Store, share & rank your mobile photos online - Images

Investle - Community based investment decision making - Finance

Ituneslove - Share your music tastes - Audio

Ivala - Order a photo montage (Latvian) - Images

Izimi (has become Sharenow.com) - Share everything, from your pc - Multimedia

Jazznoodle - Digg politics - Dig

Jimmystv - Post, watch & share videos - Video

Jotspot - Take one set of notes, live - Office

Justcurious - Q&A at random - Fun

Jyamit - Search for places - Search

Knover - Discover who's connected to what & whom - Search

Kollabor8 - Collaborate on image mutations - Images

Kritx - Social reviewing - Economy

Kweschun - Q&A - Knowledge

Lendmonkey - Trade everything - Economy

Lifeio - All to the people (never comes out of stealth) - Software

Linatree - Download, print & assemble your photo camera - Personal manufacturing

Linklog~ - Social bookmarking - Bookmark

Llor - Build your street - Game

Localspring - Social yellow pages directory - Ecommerce

Lookmarks - Social bookmarking - Bookmark

Loquendotts - Text2sneeze - Communicate

Makidi - Search (stealth) - Search

Mangezmangez - Publish, review & share restaurant information - Community

Maple - Social bookmarking - Bookmark

Mapmix - Find your friends (map mash-up) - Community

Mashmap - Find movies & showtimes (map mash-up) - Search

Mecenax - Donate & enjoy drm protected content - DRM

Memoryark (now: Ourstory) - Publish & share stories & photos - Multimedia

Mexbrowser - Stream all media in this browser - Multimedia

Mockingbird - Collaborative design (Stealth) - Design

Mophone (now Mixxer.com) - Store & share mobile content - Multimedia

Motorken - Digg automotive news - Bookmark

Msgurl - Shorten links - Software

Mybookmarkmanager - Social bookmarking - Bookmark

My-brand - Manage online advertising (now Ads-click) - Marketing

Myfreelanceauction - Buy or sell web services - Economy

Newradio - Find & vote for news - News

Newsbump - Digg news - Dig

Nulltag - News tag clouds - News

On2go - News & alerts on your mobile - News

Oolsi - Share links to free things - Economy

Openvlog - Upload & record video - Video

Opsdo - Hyper meta search - Search

Orca - Online personal desktop - OS

Outfoxed - Social search (now Lijit) - Search

Packagemapper - Track your package on a map - Geo

Parakey - Web OS - OS

Parazz - Store & share photos - Images

Peerprofile - Publish & share your profiles - Community

Peoplefeeds - Aggregate personal content - RSS

Pervwatch - Perv mash-up - Geo

Pheromonetrail - Share places & sites & persons - Geo

Pianist - Save your notes online - Office

Picturecloud - 360o view on your pics - Images

Pinbc - Pakistani int'l business and (?!) family networking - Community

Pissr - People in search of gender neutral restrooms - Community

Pixoh (now: Snipshot) - Edit pics online; relaunched as Snipshot - Images

Pixpix - Bookmark & share media - Bookmark

Pixpo - Broadcast your video site (now: Mixpo) - Video

Placestodo - Post & share places & things - Geo

Plueballs - Bookmark, rank & share film news - Bookmark

Plugaid - Start or participate in discussions & take them with you - Communicate

Pmachine - CMS - Publish

Podolicious - Personalized podcast news - News

Podzinger - Now Everyzing (http://www.everyzing.com/) - Search

Polidiggs - Digg political news - Dig

Poly9freeearth - 3D globe with various map layers - Geo

Quickmail - Email2RSS - Communicate

Readio - Blog2podcast - Audio

Relishio - Digg news - Dig

Reputata - Manage your reputation (stealth) - Identity

Rssmad - Feed reader & archive - RSS

Sametalk - Chat with other site visitors - Communicate

Saulweiner - Meta Web 2.0 list - About

Shood~ - Upload & share videos (crashed after launch) - Video

Shooter7 - Send photos, videos, music (app) - Multimedia

Showbloggers - Digg tv shows - Dig

Singlestatus - Myspace alert mash-up on member status - Community

Skillmeter - Identify, measure & retain talents thru assessments - Employment

Skombo - Sell & buy rare music - Ecommerce

Slister - Bookmark & list products - Ecommerce

Soapboxit - Share reviews on everything & everybody - Community

Socialcookbook - Post, rate & review recipes - Publish

Socialmarks - Social bookmarking - Bookmark

Socialmeter - Check your 2.0 site's popularity in 2.0-sphere - Survey

Squeet - Get news, blog articles or feeds in your email - News

Start - Personal portal - Startpage

Stickytag - Make & share notes - Office

Streamdrive - Upload & share multimedia - Multimedia

Streamload* - Store & share your media (now Mediamax) - Multimedia

Stridr - Upload & share or sell music - Audio

Studicious - Online note taking & sharing - Office

Studybuddy - Share notecards - Office

Subwaycrush - Dating(?) - Date

Swapcore - Watch, read & swap it - Multimedia

Swapzies - Store & share or sell multimedia - Multimedia

Swarmthedotcom* - See how other people browse & chat (Firefox) - Communicate

Tagspy - I tag so I am - Tag

Tagsy - Social bookmarking & feed management - Tag

Tagworld - Share music & photos - Multimedia

Talkinghub (now: Blogforum) - Add tags to your forum - Tag

Talktrust - Call anonymously - Communicate

Tanbul - Google-like search, better algorithm for user input - Search

Targetedpixel - Buy pixel space for 5 years - Marketing

Tastydish - Report, tag & share restaurants - List

Tello - Locate & collaborate with your key contacts - Communicate

Thenorp - Digg porn links - Dig

Thinglinks - Connect virtual with real world thru sema codes - Tag

Tickethappy - Shared CRM management - CRM

Topspot-ornot - Spot & review locations (map mash-up) - Geo

Toptaggers* - Tag, rank & share links - Search

Touchstone - Suscribe to your news & alerts - RSS

Tripster - Publish, recommend & share travel experiences (stealth) - Publish

Vcdiggz - Community based deal sourcing firm - Finance

Vicito - Group text service - Communicate

Vnccasts - Watch live broadcasts of people's computer screens - Video

Web20inbelgium (now: Blognation, Belgium) - Index of Belgian Web 2.0 initiatives - About

Web20interact - Rate & rank Web 2.0 sites (Icelandic) - About

Web20milliondollarhomepage - Pixel ads - Marketing

Webimager - Capture screens & upload them to Flickr - Images

Webringr - Create, send, manage & share links - Bookmark

Woeba - How to Web 2.0 list - About

Woolygans - Street culture community - Community

Woomp - Upload & share art, photos & video (now: Cpluv.com) - Multimedia

Woomu - Submit, vote for & rank videos - Video

Xboxkicks - Digg Xbox news - Rate

Yashi - Upload & share video(Merged with Bolt) - Video

Zamily - Connect & share with your family - Community

Ziblit - Recommend businesses to other consumers - List

Zigtag - Search, save & share results - Search

Zipingo - Find local business based on community input - Ecommerce

Zoobio - Startpage (now Zambio) - Startpage

Twitter usage numbers - My bet is 350 - 400K users

Twitter's upcoming next round of financing has recently revived the guess-how-many-registered-user-Twitter-has game, earlier today culminating in some new bets published by Michael Arrington, and by a bunch of commenters, under the promising TechCrunch title "End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers".

I think all their guesswork (from 1+ million to nearly 4 million; elsewhere I've even seen figures above 10 million circulate) is way too positive.

When I simply (a) use Twitter's own location search as a basic input, then (b) taking the Top 50 of cities in the world where Web 2.0 things are most popular, then (c) counting how many registered Twitter users have specified any city in their profile (75%), and finally (d) multiplying that by a factor of 100/28 (28% is the share of the Top 50 cities in the world's Web 2.0 population in the benchmark stats that I used), the result is 375 thousand users.
I've doublechecked this with a similar extrapolation where I took the Top 50 of Web 2.0 countries as an alternative for (b), and the percentage of users specifying their country (40%) as an alternative for (c) - etcetera. The result is 350 thousand users. Close enough.

I did both exercises in a quick & dirty mode, using the stats of quite a different social media company as a benchmark. But I promise to eat my shoe if I'm more than 25% off the real, actual Twitter user figures.

For a social app like Twitter - with its strong connection to the real world - to reach the tipping point in any civilized market, the first thing you need is local density, i.e. a penetration of at least 1 to 2% in the biggest cities' populations. Twitter is nowhere near that level in any of the 50 cities that I've checked.
If I were them, I'd spend at least half of the next round on facilitating & promoting local events, meetings and parties in all major cities in their Top 12 markets, thus strengthening the ties between their users in real life, and boosting their density to the right levels.

29 April 2008

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