Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 1

AUDIO 2.0

• Bebop - Compare music calendar against your iTunes catalogue. www.bebopular.com/
• Clickcaster - Record, license, publish & promote your radio show. www.clickcaster.com/
• Difm - Radio community. www.di.fm/
• Dottunes - Share your iTunes. www.dottunes.net/
• Enablr - Transcribe podcasts, Text2Snailmail, … www.enablr.com/
• Fluctu8 - Create & share your sourcelists. fluctu8.com/
• Gcast - Podcasting tools & hosting. www.gcast.com/
• Genie lab - Explore, recommend & rate music. genielab.com/
• Itunes love - Share your music tastes. www.ituneslove.com/
• Jamendo - Review, tag, rate & share music. www.jamendo.com/en/
• Lastfm* - Profile your taste, share, personalize your radio. www.last.fm/
• Mercora - Search music & get recommendations. search.mercora.com/
• Muiso - Track your taste, get recommendations. muiso.com/
• Music mobs - Share your tastes & find music. www.musicmobs.com/
• Music strands - Tag, share & post music community. www.musicstrands.com/
• Odeo - Record & share audio. www.odeo.com
• Pandora* - Personalized radio. pandora.com/
• Plurn - List, listen to, create & share music. www.plurn.com/
• Pod bop - Listen to bands that visit your city (Eventful mash-up). podbop.org/
• Podomatic - Create, find & broadcast podcasts. www.podomatic.com/
• Poperti - Save your mp3 on a pop email account. www.poperti.com/
• Predixis - Discover, manage & enjoy music. www.predixis.com/
• Purevolume - Music community. www.poperti.com/
• Radio time - Personalize radio. myradiotime.com/
• Streaming Radio Stations - Choose a type/style/gendre of tunes. www.friendlycanadian.com/mp3s/
• Streampad - List, listen & share your music (= several mash-ups). www.streampad.com/
• Upto11 - Discover & share music. upto11.net/
• Webjay - Playlist community. www.webjay.org/

Mashup ecosystem (Click to see full image)

BLOG2POD 2.0

• Talkr - Converts blog text to podcasts. www.talkr.com/

BLOGGING 2.0

• Bitty - Embed content from Web services. bitty.com/
• Blogburst - Syndicate blogs to mainstream media sites. www.blogburst.com/
• Blog code - Start blog & find similar ones. www.blogcode.com/
• Blogger snap - Add your webcam snapshot to any blog. www.bloggersnap.com/
• Blog goggle - Categorize & rate pro bloggers. www.bloggoggle.com/
• Bloglet - Notification2email. www.bloglet.com/
• Blogs - Notification2email. blo.gs/
• Blurb - Turn your blog into a book. www.blurb.com/
• Cocomment - Track back your commentosphere. www.cocomment.com/
• Feedblitz - Notification2email. www.feedblitz.com/
• Freevlog - Set up free video blog. www.freevlog.org/
• Lifetype - Blogging software. www.lifetype.net/
• Measure map - Blog stats. measuremap.com/
• Qumana - Edit your blog. www.qumana.com/
• Structured blogging - Create, edit & maintain all posts. structuredblogging.org/
• Textamerica - Mobile blog. www.textamerica.com/
• Xanco~ - Mobile phlog & vlog. www.xanco.com/
• Blip - Get video & podcasting on your blog. www.blip.tv/
• Blog ladder - Create & maintain your blog. www.blogladder.com/
• Blogniscient - Rank & read blog articles. www.blogniscient.com/
• Bloxor - Maintain & use your blogroll online. www.bloxor.com/

BOOKMARKING 2.0

• 9rules - Validate & share links to content. 9rules.com/
• All your words - Associate & share words with links. www.allyourwords.com/
• Blinkist - Social bookmarking. www.blinklist.com/
• Blogmarks - Social bookmarking. www.blogmarks.net/
• Blummy - Manage your bookmarks. www.blummy.com/
• Bmaccess - Social bookmarking with thumbs. www.bmaccess.net/
• Buddy marks - Social bookmarking. www.buddymarks.com/
• Butterfly~ - Bookmark & annotate. www.butterflyproject.nl/
• Chuquet* - Find buzzes. www.chuquet.com/
• Clipmarks - Social clipping. www.clipmarks.com/
• Common Times - Social bookmarking & clippings. www.commontimes.org/
• Connotea - Social bookmarking (for reseacrhers). www.connotea.org/
• Delicious* - Social bookmarking. del.icio.us/
• Digg* - Social bookmarking. www.digg.com
• Diigo - Social bookmarking on steroids. www.diigo.com/
• Dogear - Social bookmarking. www.eigology.com/dogear/
• Feed marker - Social bookmarking for news. www.feedmarker.com/
• Furl - Clip, store & share web pages. www.furl.net/
• Hyperlinkomatic - Social bookmarking. www.hyperlinkomatic.com/
• Icio - Social bookmarking & rating. www.icio.de/
• Jeteye - Clip & share (parts of) web pages. www.jeteye.com/
• Listible - Folksonomied software & code search. www.listible.com/
• List Mixer - Social bookmarking (temporary links). listmixer.com/
• Live Marks - Live update of Delicious. sandbox.sourcelabs.com/livemarks/
• Look later - Private bookmarking. www.looklater.com/
• Lookmarks - Social bookmarking. www.lookmarks.com/
• Magnolia - Social bookmarking & voting. ma.gnolia.com/
• Mylinkvault - Social bookmarking. www.mylinkvault.com/
• Onlywire - Social bookmarking aggregator. www.onlywire.com/
• Philoi - Social bookmarking. www.philoi.com/
• Qoosa - Social bookmarking. www.qoosa.com/
• Searchfox - Social bookmarking. www.searchfox.com/
• Shadows - Social bookmarking. shadows.com/
• Simpy - Social bookmarking, tagging & search. www.simpy.com/
• Socialmarks - Social bookmarking. www.socialmarks.com/
• Spinspy - Social bookmarking & ranking. www.spinspy.com/
• Spurl - Social - Bookmarking & search. www.spurl.net/
• Startaid - Manage & share your (thumb) bookmarks. www.startaid.com/
• Stumble Upon - Social bookmarking (random sharing). www.stumbleupon.com/
• Surftail - Share your click paths. www.surftail.com/
• Taggle - Social bookmarking, tagged (German). www.taggle.de/
• Tagtooga - Social bookmarking. www.tagtooga.com/
• Tendango - Top 10 social bookmarking. www.tendango.com/
• Thumblicio.us - Displays thumbs of most pupular del.icio.us sites. thumblicio.us/
• Yahoo Myweb2 - Social bookmarking. myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
• Yoono - Save your bookmarks and manage your feeds - www.yoono.com/

BROWSER 2.0

• Camino - Mozilla power & Mac style browser. www.caminobrowser.org/
• Flock - Lightweight browser. www.flock.com/

CALENDAR 2.0

• 30boxes - Manage & share calendar. 30boxes.com/
• Calendar hub - Create & share calendars. www.calendarhub.com/
• Eventful - Create & share events. eventful.com/
• Eventicus - Create & share events. www.eventicus.de/
• Event sniper - Mix your event calendar with feeds. www.eventsniper.com/
• Hipcal - Manage & share calendar & to do lists. www.hipcal.com/
• Meet with approval - Arrange meetings & events online. www.meetwithapproval.com/
• Mosuki - Arrange meetings & events online. mosuki.com/
• Planzo - Arrange meetings & events online & thru sms. planzo.com/
• Skobee - Arrange meetings & events online. www.skobee.com/
• Sponge cell - Arrange meetings & events online; with a.i. spongecell.com/
• Tilika - Share calendars. www.tilika.com/
• Trumba - Create& share events. www.trumba.com/
• Upcoming - Create, manage & share events. upcoming.org/

CHAT 2.0

• 3bubbles - Add a chatroom to your blog. www.3bubbles.com/
• Ajchat - Create chat rooms. www.ajchat.com/
• Campfire - Permalinked chat. www.campfirenow.com/
• Chatsum* - Chat with & leave messages same-site-visitors. www.chatsum.com/
• Conversate - Create your own chat. www.conversate.org/
• PeekoChat - Make every site a ‘place’ (Firefox plug-in). peekko.com/chat/
• Zohochat - Create your own chat room. zohochat.com/
• Ekklesia - CMS for churches. www.ekklesia-systems.com/
• Loudblog - CMS inc. RSS. www.loudblog.de/
• HIVchat - www.hiv-aids-chat.com/
• Pmachine - CMS. www.pmachine.com/ee/
• Tinymce - Wysiwyg editor. tinymce.moxiecode.com/

COLLABORATION 2.0

• Askeet - Ask & answer it. www.askeet.com/
• Asoboo - Find people & places in your city. asoboo.com/
• Favorville - People helping people. www.favorville.com/
• Foldera - Organize & share all work based documents. www.foldera.com/
• Hubpages - Share your genius. www.hubpages.com/
• Ifolder - Filesharing for groups. www.ifolder.com/
• Jotspot - Take one set of notes, live. www.jotlive.com/
• Lime - Help & inspire eachother. lime.com/
• Mayomi - Mind map & share. www.mayomi.com/
• People2pray - Manage & share prayer requests. www.people2pray.com/
• Qype - Find & recommend best spots in town. qype.com/
• Rally point - Share knowledge. www.rallypointhq.com/
• Redlettr - Tag & comment the bible. www.desertfather.com/micah/
• Rel8r - Tag, read, search blogs. www.rel8r.com/
• Rrove* - Save & share places. www.rrove.com/
• Say-So - Share problems & get advise. www.say-so.org/
• Socialight - Share pictures & notes with your cell phone. socialight.com/
• Standpoint - Share & evangelize convictions. www.standpoint.com/
• Study buddy - Share notecards. www.studybuddy.info/
• Tracbac - Share, comment, revise & collaborate. www.tracbac.com/
• Vizu - Create, share & vote for polls. www.vizu.com/
• Webbrush - Collaborative drawing, charting, etc. www.stanfy.com/dev/webbrush/
• What should i read next - Share your bookshelve. whatshouldireadnext.com/
• Wobblog - Rank & share blog postings. www.wobblog.com/
• Zimbra - Work & communicate together. www.zimbra.com/

COLLECT 2.0

• Librarious - Catalogue your collection. lib.rario.us/
• Librarything - Catalogue & share your library. www.librarything.com/
• Unalog - Share what you read, in groups. unalog.com/

COMIX 2.0

• Comics - Create & share comics. www.mainada.net/comics/
• Comic Strip Generator - Personalize cartoon strips. www.comicstripgenerator.com/
• Quicktoons - Create & share comics. www.quicktoons.com/

COMMUNICATION 2.0

• E-messenger - Ajax messengers. www.e-messenger.net/
• E-messenger - Integrates several messengers. www.e-messenger.net/
• Gtalkr - Google Talk, Flickr, YouTube, feeds. https://gtalkr.com/
• Iglance - Push-to-talk videoconf and screen-sharing. www.iglance.com/
• Imeem - Share words, files & people (on messenger). www.imeem.com/
• Imvu - 3D messenger. www.imvu.com/
• Iotum - Sorts & processes calls on relevance. www.iotum.com/
• Jabphone - Messenger2phone. www.jabphone.com/
• Jumpclaimer - Inform your relatives about your whereabouts thru sms. www.jumpclaimer.com/
• Kopete - Universal messenger. kopete.kde.org/
• Mabber - Mobile messenger. www.mabber.com/
• Meebo - Integrates several messengers. www.meebo.com/
• Skylook - Record & store all Skype communications. www.skylook.biz/
• Skype - Call, conference, messenger, file sharing. www.skype.com/
• Slawesome - Add voice to your email. www.slawesome.com/
• Soonr - Mobile 2 web & v.v. www.soonr.com/
• Stickam* - Multimedia communication tool. www.stickam.com/
• Tello - Locate & collaborate with your key contacts. www.tello.com/
• Userplane - Chat, messenger, record. www.userplane.com/
• V4s - Add voice to your email. www.orb.com/skype/
• Vyew - Web based video conferencing. vyew.com/
• Waxmail - Add voice to your email. www.waxmail.biz/
• Web2messenger - Send messages from web 2 messenger. www.web2messenger.com/

COMMUNITY 2.0

• 43people - Tag based matching & dating. www.43people.com/
• Ask Me That - Public help forums. www.askmethat.com/
• 43places - Publish & share stories about places. www.43places.com/
• Blogtronix - Blogging & corporate community software. www.blogtronix.com/
• Communitywalk - Share places & routes (map mash-up). www.communitywalk.com/
• Consumating - Tag based dating. www.consumating.com/
• Create & Participate in communities. www.towncrossing.com/
• Dodgeball - Hook in with your mobile & meet friends. www.dodgeball.com/
• Doostang - Community for professionals. www.doostang.com/
• Facebook - Student communities. www.facebook.com/
• Frappr - Put your group on the map, share photos. www.frappr.com/
• Friendster - Connect with friends. www.friendster.com/
• Groups - Create groups & share content. grou.ps/
• HIV/AIDSforum - www.hivforum.com/
• HumanPages – Philanthropic “LinkedIn-Like” People Search. www.humanpages.com/
• Ikarma - Document & promote your reputation. ikarma.com/
• Linkedin - Manage and share your cv. www.linkedin.com/
• Livejournal - Join or create your own community. www.sixapart.com/livejournal/
• Lovento - Find friends & events. www.lovento.com/
• Mapmix. Find your friends (map mash-up). www.mapmix.com/
• Meetro - Find friends nearby (thru messenger). www.meetro.com/
• Meetup - Find common interests & organize meetings. www.meetup.com/
• Mologogo - Share where you are. www.mologogo.com/
• Mozes - Share information & people thru your mobile. mozes.com/
• MySpace - Communicate with & share content with your friends. www.myspace.com/
• OpenBC - Community for entrepreneurs & professionals. www.openbc.com
• Opinity - Manage your reputation. www.opinity.com/
• Orkut - Connect to your friends. https://www.orkut.com/
• Partysync - Meet & sms people. group.partysync.com/
• Peerprofile - Publish & share your profiles. www.peerprofile.com/
• Peertrainer - Buddy up, slim down. www.peertrainer.com/
• Phusebox - Community for sophisticated people. phusebox.net/
• Piczo - Create & share website. piczo.com/
• Placesite - Wi-fi portal & location communities. www.placesite.com/
• Plum - Collect, share, connect. www.plum.com/
• Poddater - Create vodcast & connect. www.poddater.com/
• Pooln - Schedule your car pooling. www.pooln.com/
• Rabble - Create it & share it mobile. www.rabble.com/
• Tagalag - Tag & map your contacts. www.tagalag.com/
• Theblackstripe - Upload & share photos. www.theblackstripe.com/
• Tinfinger - Search persons. www.tinfinger.com/
• Towncrossing - Find & Link to Friends. towncrossing.com/
• Twocrowds - Share & vote for predictions. www.twocrowds.com/
• Vcarious - Travel community. www.vcarious.com/
• Wallop - Phlog & interact. mywallop.com/
• Xanga - Blog rings. www.xanga.com/
• Zaadz~ - Network of inspired people. www.zaadz.com/
• Ziggs - Index of professionals. www.ziggs.com/
• Zoominfo* - Search persons; create your own page. www.zoominfo.com/

CRM 2.0

• 24sevenoffice - Web-based crm & erp. www.24sevenoffice.com/
• Helpspot - Wen nased help desk software. www.userscape.com/
• Pushcrm - Web-based crm. pushcrm.com/
• Simpleticket - Helpdesk solution. www.simpleticket.net/
• Userscape - Web based help desk portal. www.userscape.com/
• Zohocrm - Web-based crm. www.zohocrm.com/

DATABASE 2.0

• Turbodbadmin - Online dbase in Ajax. www.turboajax.com/turbodbadmin.html/

DESIGN 2.0

• Betterdesktop - Share usability tests. www.betterdesktop.org/
• Sign Generators. www.customsigngenerator.com/
• Flickrlogomakr - Make Flickr-like logo in a second. flickr.nosv.org/ (cf. this group’s logo).
• Online Logo Designer. www.text2logo.com/
• Desktop Wallpaper Creator. www.wallpapergenerator.com/
• PreviewHTML - Preview your HTML source codes. www.previewhtml.com/
• Netcocktail - Share color schemes. www.netcocktail.com/
• Custom Banner Advertising Ads. www.bannergenerator.org/
• Neurosky - Bionic interface technology. www.neurosky.com/
• OK-cancel. Collaboration on interface design. www.ok-cancel.com/
• Warning Label Maker. www.dangersigngenerator.com/
• Typetester - Compare screen type. www.typetester.maratz.com/
• Hide Text From Spambots. www.txt2png.com/
• Wufoo - Build & host forms. www.wufoo.com/
• Watermark Images www.signgeneratormaker.com/

DICTIONARY 2.0

• Visualthesaurus - Find & visualize synonyms. www.visualthesaurus.com/

ECOMMERCE 2.0

• 12 Wists - Share shopping lists. www.wists.com/
• 43deals - Find best deals. www.43deals.com/
• Adgenta - Add ads to your site, blog or rss feed. www.adgenta.com/
• Amazon* - Shop, sell, review & rank. www.amazon.com/
• Auctionmapper - Map Ebay auctions. www.auctionmapper.com/
• Bigcartel - Start, review & recommend online shops. bigcartel.com/
• Blish - Buy & sell digital things. www.blish.com/
• Broadbandgenie - Find best provider. www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
• CafePress - Free to design, sell, buy custom products. www.cafepress.com/ (join affiliate program)
• CafePress Live JavaScript Feed. www.web20appz.com/cafepress/javascript.asp
• Carbonmade - Publish & manage your portfolio online. www.carbonmade.com/
• Clipfire - Shop search engine & community. www.clipfire.com/
• Closo - Start & advertise your online shop. www.closo.com/
• Cooqy - Find things faster on Ebay (client). www.cooqy.com/
• Coverpop - Mash-ups of everything. www.coverpop.com/
• Darmik - Sell & share profits with charities. www.darmik.com/
• Ebay* - Sell, rate & buy; auction. www.ebay.com/
• Etsy - Buy & sell handmade things. www.etsy.com/
• Flyspy - Graph all of your choices in air travel. www.flyspy.com/index.php/
• Fotogopo - Animated local route map; Google Maps & Geocoder mash-up. www.fotogopo.com/
• Froogle* - Local shopping search engine; Google Maps mash-up. www.google.com/sellonfroogle/
• Garbagescout - Find treasures on NY streets; Google Maps mash-up. www.garbagescout.com/
• Gumshoo - Auction analyzer; Ebay mash-up. www.gumshoo.com/
• Hawkee - Tagged price comparison. www.hawkee.com/
• Homethinking - Search, find, contact & review realtors. www.homethinking.com/
• Hotpads - Houses for rent. hotpads.com/
• Inods - Shopping review aggregator. inods.com/
• Insideflyer - Convert loyalty points. insideflyer.com/
• Judysbook - Review & rate your neighbourhood. www.judysbook.com/
• Kayak Buzz - Find cheap destinations; Google Maps mash-up. www.kayak.com/h/buzz/flights
• Licketyship - Home-delivery supermarket; retail & couriers co-operation. www.licketyship.com/
• Licketytrip - Last minute vacation rentals (map mash-up). www.licketytrip.com/
• Lopico - Social business directory. www.lopico.com/
• Mapeire - User generated lowest price finder; Google Maps mash-up. www.mapeire.com/
• Motionmall - Design & insert webads. www.motionmall.com/
• Paguna - Travel booking with 1 page Ajax interface. https://www.paguna.com/
• Peerflix - List & trade DVDs. www.peerflix.com/
• Pricenoia - Amazon price comparison. www.pricenoia.com/
• Qoop - Publish & sell photos & photo products. www.qoop.com/
• Redtoucan - Share photos & review products. www.redtoucan.com/
• Reevoo - Review & buy electronics. www.reevoo.com/
• Revver - Upload, share or sell your videos. www.revver.com/
• Savedsearchpro - Find Ebay deals easier. www.savedsearchpro.com/
• Shoposphere* - Create & share pick lists. shopping.yahoo.com/shoposphere/
• Site flavored Google* - Tailor adwords to your site. www.google.com/services/siteflavored.html
• Sofortpreis - Mobile shopping assistent. www.sofortpreis.de/
• Souki~ - Local shop search. www.souki.com/
• Spymedia - Publish & sell news photos. www.spymedia.com/
• Stylehive - Get recommendations fitting your product interests. www.shopify.com/
• Tenbills - Design & buy your T. www.tenbills.com/
• Thandora - Tag based search in yellow pages. www.thandora.com/tagit.do/
• Tictap - Price comparison for mobile. www.tictap.com/
• Tnook - Build, manage & trade your collections. www.tnook.com/
• Wazima - Coupon aggregator. www.wazima.com/
• Web20milliondollarhomepage - Pixel ads. www.web20milliondollarhomepage.com/
• Wists - Social shopping. www.wists.com/
• Wuraweb - Find local prices & credentials. www.wuraweb.com/
• Yelp - Find, review & discuss local restaurants etc. www.yelp.com/
• Yub - Meet, hang & get discounts in shopping mall. www.yub.com/mall/
• Zazzle - Design, sell & buy custom goods. www.zazzle.com/
• Zillow - Get your home valuated (map mash-up). www.zillow.com/
• Zipingo - Find local business based on community input. www.zipingo.com/

ECONOMY 2.0

• Aidpage - People help people. www.aidpage.com/
• Associatedcontent - Produce & publish content, get paid. www.associatedcontent.com/
• Billmonk - Manage debts. https://www.billmonk.com/
• Castingwords - Get your podcasts transcribed. castingwords.com/
• Couchsurfing* - Home swapping & holiday dating. www.couchsurfing.com/
• Daylo - Contribute to local yellow pages. daylo.com/
• Democracy2.0* - Consumers/Citizens unite! d2.stevemagruder.com/hub.php
• Donorschoose - Donate to schools. www.donorschoose.org/
• Elevatorpitch - Upload, read & rate pitches. www.yourelevatorpitch.com/
• Fundable - Pledge for funding. www.fundable.org/
• Gather - Share passions & get paid. gather.com/
• Givebobadollar - Begging. www.givebobadollar.com/
• Givemeaning - Give or take fundraising community. www.givemeaning.com/
• Givezilla - Create fundraising storefront. www.givezilla.com/
• Google answers - Get your questions answered for money. answers.google.com/answers/
• Ikarma - Document & promote your reputation. ikarma.com/
• Lendmonkey - Trade everything. www.lendmonkey.com/
• Listsomething - Share any list to buy & sell things, services. www.listsomething.com/
• Million dollar homepage* - Buy pixels to finance study. www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
• Mturk - Complete simple tasks & get paid. www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome/
• Myfreelanceauction - Buy or sell web services. myfreelanceauction.com/
• Oolsi - Share links to free things. www.oolsi.com/
• Prosper - P2P lending. www.prosper.com/
• Rawsugar - Social bookmarking directory & revenue sharing. www.rawsugar.com/
• Secondlifeboutique - Buy real things with virtuaa money. slboutique.com/
• Smarkets - Stock markets for products. www.smarkets.net/
• Smashmyviper - Buy pixels to destroy car. www.smashmyviper.com/
• Stuffopolis - Keep track of things you lend or borrow. www.stuffopolis.com/
• Swabba - Online garage sale (German). www.swabba.de/
• Zopa - P2P banking services. www.zopa.com/

E-LEARNING 2.0

• Elgg - Open source e-learning software. elgg.org/
• Nuvvo - On demand elearning. www.nuvvo.com/
• Medical Portal. www.medchecker.com/

EMAIL 2.0

• Dropsend - Email large files. www.dropsend.com/
• Mail2RSS - Inmail2RSS. www.mail2rss.org/
• Myemail - Check email anywhere. myemail.com/
• Newsletterarchive* - Store & share your newsletters. www.newsletterarchive.org/
• Onesens - Send teasing webmail messages. www.onesens.com/
• Quickmail - Email2RSS. quickmail.johanfitie.com/
• Sendspace - Email large files. www.sendspace.com/
• Tempinbox - Receive inmail anonymously. www.tempinbox.com/
• Trustmymail - Spam filter based on your circle of contacts. www.trustmymail.com/
• Yousendit - Email large files. www.yousendit.com/
• Irows - Web based spreadsheet. www.irows.com/
• Numbler - Excel spreadsheet online. numbler.com/
• Numsum - Collaborate online on spreadsheets. numsum.com/
• Sundera - Collaborate online on spreadsheets. www.sundera.com/

FILESHARING 2.0

• Bittorrent - Share files & bandwidth. www.bittorrent.com/
• Civilnetizen - File swapping. www.civilnetizen.com/
• Lphanr - Multi compatible P2P file sharing. www.lphant.com/

FINANCIALS 2.0

• Blinksale - Web-based invoicing. www.blinksale.com/
• Dimewise - Manage your finances. www.dimewise.com/
• Frugalbetty - Manage your spendings. frugalbetty.com/
• Ioweyou - Manage loans & shared expenses. www.ioweyou.co.uk/
• Networthiq - Track, share & compare your net worth. www.networthiq.com/
• Secondsite - Web-based invoicing. www.secondsite.biz/
• Secondssite. Finance tools. www.secondsite.biz/

Read the Part 2 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 2

Read the Part 3 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 3

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Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo here Thursday, Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh revealed how the company is transforming itself into an open and social platform from the ground up. It is opening its Web platform to developers and moving closer to a Facebook-style social networking concept. Ari Balogh also said that while Yahoo already has open APIs for some services, it will expand the open API concept to other areas and make it more consistent for developers, while boosting the ’social’ aspect of its services for its members.

“We are taking open to a whole other place,” Balogh said. “We are rewiring Yahoo from the inside out with a developer platform that will open up the assets of Yahoo in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers.” He noted that Yahoo has 10 billion latent connections across its properties, such as mail, messenger and fantasy sports.

Balogh discussed the technical architecture–known as YOS, or Yahoo Open Strategy–including an application platform that will allow developers to create apps for consumers to keep their data protected and to chose what data to share and with whom. In addition, Yahoo will unify all profiles for users and developers, which will allow the company to leverage the 10 billion relations and 500 million users to create the social graph of relationships and to manage the event stream.

“We are not creating another social network. We will rewire the entire experience to make it social. We don’t think of social as a destination but as a dimension,” Balogh said. Along with Google and MySpace, Yahoo is a member of the OpenSocial Foundation, which is developing a specification for building social applications.

The underpinnings of Yahoo’s effort include development tools, an application platform, a social platform that unifies all profiles throughout Yahoo (again, like Facebook or MySpace, this is a social graph that lets users make connections and view events) and the total rewiring of properties to make all this possible.

Yahoo’s new architecture, called YOS (Yahoo Open Strategy) proves that the Internet is made of tubes (Source: Yahoo)

The heady plans are smart but, quite likely, come too late.

The Wall Street Journal (4/25, Steel, B1, 2.06M) reports, “A yearlong effort by AOL to transform its content Web sites into crowd-pleasers is beginning to pay off.” The Journal continues, “Traffic to the sites — including AOL Money & Finance, entertainment, and the male-oriented Asylum — grew 15% to 56.5 million unique U.S. visitors in the first quarter from a year ago, according to comScore Media Metrix. Measured by traffic, some of the sites even top the charts for their categories.” AOL “still hasn’t translated the surge in visits into higher ad revenue. But the news is positive for the Time Warner Inc. unit, which has struggled with another initiative — building AOL into a major digital ad-sales firm.” The content push “is part of AOL’s bid to reinvent itself as an ad-supported Web company following its August 2006 decision to make its Internet-access service free. Visits to AOL’s Web sites slowed as a side-effect of that decision. … To draw visitors back, AOL redesigned sites in the news, sports and health categories. It also created a half-dozen new sites that don’t use the AOL name, such as a technology-focused site called Switched, a hip-hop site called BlackVoices, and a Web trend tracker called Urlesque.com, as well as Asylum. Dropping its name was an acknowledgement that the brand wasn’t hip enough for the consumers AOL was trying to attract.” AOL “also adopted some common tricks of the trade, such as making its sites appear higher in search-engine results.”
Time Warner To Announce Quarterly Results On Wednesday. MarketWatch (4/24, Wilkerson) reported, “Analysts will be anticipating higher profits at several large media conglomerates such as Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp. and Viacom Inc. next week, but will also be on the lookout for signs that a shaky U.S. economy is having an adverse effect on spending by advertisers and consumers.” Time Warner announces its quarterly results Wednesday morning, and analysts see the company “earning 23 cents a share on revenue of $11.4 billion. In the year-earlier quarter, excluding discontinued operations and special items - including the effect of accounting changes — the company would have earned 22 cents a share on sales of $11.2 billion.” Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes “will surely have to field questions about speculation that AOL could hook up with Yahoo. … As usual, analysts will be monitoring advertising growth at AOL, which has been declining for several quarters.” Time Warner “has pointed out that AOL has discontinued several ‘nonprofitable’ sponsorships, and that ad demand is shifting to third-party networks.”

Blaine Cook, lead architect at red-hot, sometimes-down Twitter, has left the company. Blaine describes his departure at an “amicable” one.

I left Twitter just over two weeks ago. It’s an amicable change; Twitter’s architecture is at a good point for them to pursue stability and growth, and I’m looking forward to a new challenge after nearly three years of working with Odeo and Twitter. I will likely continue as an advisor to Twitter. I can’t yet talk about the specifics of my decision, but I am moving to the UK so that my partner can pursue her career. We’re Canadian and her visa makes it impossible for her to work in the US, and at the same time there are rich web communities emerging outside of the Bay Area.

In the hothouse world of tech blogging, Twitter is becoming as well-known for its outages as for the service itself, so no doubt there will be a lot of dot-connecting here. But can the failures be all pinned down to one person? I am not sure.

But it is a good chance for Twitter to make up lost ground. Else, there are many waiting just round the corner.

Ever struggled to explain RSS to a non-techie (or your boss/manager). Well here it is - a video on the subject RSS for dummies, RSS 101, RSS in Plain English!

The founders talk candidly on where they’ve been & where they’re going

Shel Israel interviews Twitter’s co-founders. The video offers some interesting insights into how people are using the service. Twitter can be described as, “a social utility which connects with people who they already know, or are interested in”.

Of all the emerging tools of social media, Twitter is the most conversational. The mobile SMS service allows people to chat in compact bite sized 140-character blocks. Some use it 20-30 times or more per day and some even have thousands of followers. But the average user only posts three times a day and chats only with a few friends.

Some businesses are also using Twitter too. For example, employees are using Twitter to communicate and share their information. Other businesses, are using the service to keep in touch with their customers, or using it for customer support.

Interestingly, Twitter’s global traffic can be broken down into four segments:

Web, SMS, Instant Messaging (IM) and API usage

Usage of Twitter’s API is 20 times than that of the Twitter.com web service.

The pie chart below, show’s Twitter’s International Web traffic usage.

NB. Remember this is just web traffic. It doesn’t include any of the other popular ways that people use Twitter. For example, this figure does not include: m.twitter.com, and API applications such as Twhirl and Twitterrific.

Interestingly, 60% of Twitter users are non US users and of that 39% are Japanese! Spain and the UK are also strong Twitter users. Good Stuff!

Teaser: GNTV’s Shel Israel talks with Twitter founders about how the company got started, who uses the popular service and how. They examine business models and how business is starting to use the mobile SMS service.

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Another interesting video on Twitter: Twitter in Plain English

This is very interesting use of Social Network Maps; Greater Manchester Police (GMP) recently announced that it is now using social networking site, Facebook, to help in its fight against crime. Facebook and GMP have collaborated on the development of a Web 2.0 application which provides news feeds, and links to a crime-reporting form, Police Web sites and videos. Facebook members can add the application to their user profiles at http://apps.facebook.com/gmpupdates.

GMP hopes the move will help it raise public awareness of local incidents and facilitate the exchange of information on crime. GMP is the first police force in the UK to use the site in this way.

According to Worklight Inc, a Web 2.0 security specialist, GMP’s use of Facebook is in line with an increasing trend for organisations to use social network sites as business tools. However, Worklight also highlights the need for tight control in order to eliminate security risks. WorkLight claims its technology allows organisations to use Web 2.0 consumer services, including Facebook, for business purposes, without the attendant security risks.

Source:Techwatch UK

SixApart launched BlogIt by TypePad last night, a Facebook app that lets you post to SixApart blogs and other blogging software like WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, to your Facebook Newsfeed and to Twitter all from one place. It’s the kind of app that makes Facebook all the closer to being a one stop social media experience.

The service could be more fully developed but it’s certainly in the lead compared to other services aiming to do the same thing. A close look at the details leads us to believe that this could be a much bigger move than it might seem to be. Here’s a few reasons why we believe it’s so interesting.

SixApart is a leading company in the field of social graph experimentation and the most outspoken participating company willing to be critical of some of Google’s efforts like OpenSocial.

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