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- kenvsryu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I love year end compilations.
- Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8
Links to the sites (Yes I know digg is there...) :
http://free411.com/
http://www.amie.st/
http://city.ask.com/city
http://www.bluedot.us/
http://www.digg.com/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.flock.com/
http://www.gmail.com/
http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire
http://www.netvibes.com/
http://www.pandora.com/
http://www.skype.com/
http://www.techmeme.com/
http://www.wordpress.org/
http://www.youtube.com/ - osmaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8800-Free-411 really isn't a Web2.0 company...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes of course, maybe it was the very first web 2.0 application with extensive use of xmlHttpRequest!
- freestufftimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Same here, and I rarely use youtube
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I use 3 of them. gmail, digg, and youtube. I could very well live without any of them.
- mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Sadly, pointless enumeration always is very popular on digg.
- cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Perhaps not, but I didn't know they existed before. I just found out my cell phone service was tagging me for $0.75 every time I called 411 (which was often), so this is great.
Dugg for that tip alone! - maxum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What about http://www.stumbleupon.com ?
- geekchic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Sorry to be grammar pedantic, but as the exclamation mark indicates an expression of strong feeling or astonishment, why would Digg being popular therefore be astonishing?
- Sponky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3What sort of bit rate are the mp3s on amie.st encoded at?
- eth3l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1800-free-411? If you have a blackberry its called "berry411" http://thebogles.com/blog/projects/berry411/
The list is clearly for non-techie, iPod listening, 1000 icons on the desktop user .... "Flock" seriously? how does that qualify as a web 2.0 company? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like also Interaction (www.interactionchat.com) and Meebome (www.meebome.com).
- Beernutz14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RedRoller : Web 2.0 Shipping service. Shipping on demand. Create and print shipping labels for packages at home.
www.redroller.com
Good stuff, integrates with ebay - merce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No ajax = not web 2.0
Although you could argue some on the list don't belong for the same reason. - NamelessCoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I downloaded a song that was encoded at 192 kbps. The site allows users to upload songs to sell (that's part of how it works), and I didn't see any limitations on bit rates (as far as a cursory glance could tell). So I suppose bit rates vary from song to song.
- djKianoosh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"newsgator"?!?! I'm not touching anything with the word gator in it. A couple years ago I had a hell of a time getting rid of all that spyware. No sir, I'm going nowhere near that junk...
- reservoirdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You might want to look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*****
- dignews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why isn't wikipedia in the main list??? I know its in the almost there but its my first source of information and I'm sure its alot of others people's too. It deserves its place in the main list more than Ask City.
- andrewrchambers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd love for Skype to be on my list of apps i couldn't live without but unfortunately none of my friends will use it because they can't live without the winks and nudges on MSN...
I did manage to get my mum to use it though, so I get free calls to her in France. Which is nice. - Roundtower2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3gmail is web 2.0?!!
- mewainwr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I want to make a year end compilation of the best year end compilations!
- bizchris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0(wikipedia)
"The XMLHttpRequest concept was originally developed by Microsoft as part of Outlook Web Access 2000. The Microsoft implementation is called XMLHTTP. It has been available since Internet Explorer 5.0[2] and is accessible via JScript, VBScript and other scripting languages supported by IE browsers." - jboutelle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Flock is a prototypical Web 2.0 company. There core function is integrating with all the other "Web 2.0" services like Flickr and Youtube, and making blogging easier.
Whether they suck or not is another question. But they are definitely Web 2.0. - EriktheBard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd like to warn those who may try to use Ask City. It is a good idea and had some very nice features, but I entered three local addresses and all of them were wrong from distances of a few hundred feet to several miles. Back to the lab guys.
- DJCult, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Good list.
- AgentBleu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0The http://bootstrap-network.com/blog/17 Bubble is Going To Burst - Once Again!
In the beginning there was resistance, lots of resistance. Then after a couple of high profile sellouts their was panic, every speculator was going to be rich, quickly followed by the big bang. What a ride.
What caused the last big bang is about to cause the next even the mainstream press can feel it. But this time the big balled investors are a little more cautious than before, yet it seems just as stupid.
I recall one of the first bangers Lastminute.com in a high profile sellout got 850 million UKP, valuing Lastminute on a par with W.H.SMITHs. This was for a little domain name that they picked up for 10 dollars, a couple of PHP coders, and a double page spread in the Daily Mail singing their praises. What a scam.
After that everyone was hooked and they were all going to be rich. Overnight the internet changed from being a bit geeky, very innovative, and strictly non-commercial to one big supermarket with every vender spamming you with their latest rubbish.
Of course it went pop, and when it did it was great. For all the commercial interests that were polluting cyberspace with their get rich quick spam, had had their balls crushed and in the aftermath we were left with a much quieter terrain where the speculators had been burnt and innovation could once again flourish.
Don get me wrong I have nothing against making money but the nature of these speculators have a very negative impact on the general terrain of the internet and heres why.
Firstly the vast majority of the venture capital investment that is injected into startups is used to not only prop up donkeys but more importantly is distorting the general playing field.
This manifests in some very destructive ways. Noticeably, most of the real innovation that is at the core of the new functions that emerge online, is created by small groups of programmers / designers who tackle problems and create ingenues solutions which enrich our everyday lives. These are largely small groups of underfunded (if at all) individuals.
Coupled with this parody is the power of the press, and I'm not talking about the mainstream press I am referring to the new breed of Power-Ranger blogers who just like in the days of the specific industry related 'trade magazines' are the current imbeciles of their time.
So you have a small group of technology related Blogers who have managed to harness a captive audience but who are ignorant to programming, design, and largely technology for that matter but who have found themselves with the 'important' title of chef bloger, and who make it their business to blog about what they consider is newsworthy or important.
Just as with the old trade press journals you are left with a corporatised view on the world where the dinner table talk ranges from who's been fired to who's just managed to get VC to the tune of 568 million.
Clearly this is the scope of the general table chatter and a brief look at Michael Arrington Techcrunch you will see the same old traditional trade journal style of so-called news (hysteria) being covered.
But burred by these trade like journals is the real startup discussion. The real news is not in who's about to loose 586 Million because they have invested it into a pile of donkey ***** but rather what's happening on the ground.
The innovative ground floor is once again being crushed by an ambitious bunch of ignorant money grabbing speculators who in their hysteria do not know the value of a domain name let alone an online travel agent.
This is not to say that innovation will stop or the current wave of Web2.0 startups won't flourish as some will, but the survivors of the next big bang wont be the those empty black holes who are being jacked up by VC, instead they will be the the low profile (unfunded) innovators who continue at their own pace despite the noise of what's supposed to be hot, in the race to be a me-too copycat company. - golfing22, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/2007_Web_2_0_Companies_I_Couldn_t_Live_Without/
- DJCult, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Oh man...Flock is incredible. Now I'll be divided between that and Firefox. Well, better just get a second monitor.
- AkshayGenius, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4You, sir, are an idiot
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -25/+3Well, looks like you're done living, because THERE IS NO "WEB 2.0."
But you knew that already, didn't you?
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