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

RSS 2.0

• Alesti - Feed reader. www.alesti.org/
• Almondrocks - Share feeds. www.almondrocks.com/
• Beanrocket - News reader. www.beanrocket.com/
• Blogbridge - Feed reader. www.blogbridge.com/
• Blogexpress - Feed reader. www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
• Bloglet – email syndication of RSS news feeds. www.bloglet.com/
• Bloglines - Feed reader. www.bloglines.com/
• Evolvepoint - Create, track or find feeds. www.evolvepoint.com/
• FeedBlitz – email syndication of RSS news feeds. www.feedblitz.com/
• Feedblender - Feed reader. www.feeddigest.com/
• Feedburner - Manage your rss & podcast feeds. www.feedburner.com/
• Feedbutler - Social feed reader. www.feedbutler.com/
• Feedcraft - Create, manage, deliver & track feeds. www.feedcraft.com/
• Feeddigest - Mix, filter & republish or syndicate feeds on your website. www.feeddigest.com/
• Feedfeeds - RSS reader (Ajax). www.feedfeeds.com/
• Feedlounge - Feed reader. www.feedlounge.com/
• Feedpath - Social feed reader. feedpath.com/feedreader/
• Feedping - Submit your feed to major directories. www.yoursite.com
• Feedxs~ - Create personal feeds (without website), submit thru messenger. www.feedxs.com/
• Googlereader - Feed reader. www.google.com/reader/
• Gregarius - Feed reader. gregarius.net/
• Immediat - Messenger notifications of feeds. immedi.at/
• Instantfeed - Messenger notifications of feeds. instantfeed.biggu.com/
• Newsgator - RSS aggregation platform. www.newsgator.com/
• Nooked - Manage & commercialize your feeds. www.nooked.com/
• Odiogo - Convert feeds to speech. www.odiogo.com/
• Omea - Manage & enhance your feeds. www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/
• Peoplefeeds - Aggregate personal content. www.peoplefeeds.com/
• Podbasket - Converts audio into feeds. www.podbasket.com/
• Rapidfeeds - Publish feeds without tech know-how. www.rapidfeeds.com/
• RSS2PDF - Convert feeds to PDF. rss2pdf.com/
• RSSbandit - Feed reader. www.rssbandit.org/
• RSShut - Read & search feeds. www.rsshut.com/
• RSSmad - Feed reader & archive. www.rssmad.com/
• RSSor - Collect, read & share feeds. rssor.utblog.com/
• RSSreader - Feed reader. www.rssreader.com/
• TinytinyRSS - Feed reader. tt-rss.spb.ru/trac/

SCHEDULING 2.0

• Buddyping - Find friends & events locally (map mash-up). www.buddyping.com/
• Goovite - Invite people. www.goovite.com/
• Kiko - Onlin calendar. www.kiko.com/
• Meetwithapproval - Organize & manage meetings. www.meetwithapproval.com/
• Zvents - Organize & manage events. www.zvents.com/

SEARCH 2.0

• 1000tags - Tag cloud based search. 1000tags.com/
• 911search - Disaster search portal. www.crisissearch.com/
• Ajaxwhois - Results while you type. www.ajaxwhois.com/
• Alexa - Contribute to ranked search & stats while you surf. www.alexa.com/
• Ambedo - Bookmark, tag & search. www.ambedo.com/
• Audioclipping - Search content of audio & video streams. www.audioclipping.de/
• Bashr - Wikipedia, Flickr & Delicious mash-up. www.bashr.com/
• Blogdigger - Search blogs. www.blogdigger.com/
• Blogpulse - Search blogs. www.blogpulse.com/
• Blue - Find & share. https://www.blue.us/
• Browster - Search & browse instantly. www.browster.com/
• CanadianSearch - Canada links dbase. www.canuckster.com/
• Clusty - Cluster results in folders. clusty.com/
• Collaborativerank - Search & rank. collabrank.org/
• Dhoondo - Search all content on the web. www.dhoondho.com/
• Digitalmediasearch - Search media. www.moworks.ca/search.aspx
• Dipsie - Deep search. www.dipsie.com/
• Ditto - Search images. ditto.com/
• Domainsbot - Domain searcg & suggestions. www.domainsbot.com/
• Doubletrust - Google + Yahoo mash-up. sushil01.securesites.net/~ashish/doubletrust/
• Egosurf - Search yourself, get ranking. www.egosurf.org/
• Exalead - Unified search technology. www.exalead.com/
• Factbites - Search results in sensible sentences. www.factbites.com/
• Feedster - Search for feeds. www.feedster.com/
• Filangy - Current search. www.filangy.com/
• Gadabe* - RSS metasearch. www.gada.be/
• Gahooyoogle - Google + Yahoo mash-up. www.gahooyoogle.com/
• Geourl - Location 2 URL directory. geourl.org/
• Google* - Search & adwords. www.google.com
• Googleblogsearch - Search blogs. www.google.com/blogsearch
• Gravee - Searches sites & blogs; fair rev share on ads. www.gravee.com/
• Hakia - Meaningful results. www.hakia.com/
• Healthline - Contextual search for health information. www.healthline.com/
• Iamsearched - Are you googled-notification service. www.iamsearched.com/
• Ibegin - Local search. ibegin.com/
• Icerocket - Search blogs & web. www.icerocket.com/
• Instantdomainsearch - Ajax domain search + suggestions. instantdomainsearch.com/
• Jookster - Search, rank & share. www.jookster.com/
• Kinja - Search blogs. www.kinja.com/
• Kosmix - Verticle search. www.kosmix.com/
• Kratia - Search, vote & rank results. www.kratia.com/
• Lexxe - Meaningful search. www.lexxe.com/
• Linkput - Results with suer input. www.linkput.com/
• Liveplasma* - Search & find other things to your taste. www.liveplasma.com/
• Lumrix - Ajax wiki search. wiki.lumrix.net/
• Makidi - Search for people (?). www.makidi.com/
• Musicmap - Search & find other things to your taste. www.dimvision.com/musicmap/
• Mybigriver - Find while you type; Amazon mash-up. - www.mybigriver.com/
• Nextaris - Social search. www.nextaris.com/
• Omgili - Search discussion forums. www.omgili.com/
• OPMLsearch - Dedicated OPML search. www.opmlsearch.com/
• Podzinger - Search podcasts. www.opmlsearch.com/
• Prase us - Page rank based search. www.prase.us/
• Prefound - Search what people already found. www.prefound.com/
• Previewseek*** - Byebye Google? beta.previewseek.com/
• Pubsub - Search + profiled alerts. www.pubsub.com/
• Qtsaver - Micro content search; Google & Yahoo mash-ups qtsaver.com/
• Qtsearch - Search for content in Yahoo & Google. www.qtsaver.com/
• Qube - Search engine aggregator (client). qube.qelix.com/
• Quintura - Search engine with visualized context terms (client). qube.qelix.com/
• Qwerky - Search strange site names. qwerky.stellify.net/
• Qwika - Search wikis. www.qwika.com/
• Releton - Google + Yahoo + maps & routes. www.releton.com/
• Retrievr* - Search images by sketching. labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
• Riya* - Face recognition based photo search. riya.com/
• Rollyo* - Create search agents. rollyo.com/
• Seekum - User ranked search results. www.seekum.com/
• Suckingfish - Save, collaborate on & publish search results. suckingfish.com/
• Surfwax - Multisource search. www.surfwax.com/
• Swicki - Search with user input. www.swicki.eurekster.com/
• Tagnautica - Search Flickr. www.quasimondo.com/tagnautica.php
• Talkdigger - Search & discuss results from blogs & web. www.talkdigger.com/
• Technorati* - Find what people are saying. www.technorati.com/
• Watvindenwijover~ - Find & vote for information. watvindenwijover.nl/
• Who-isit - Whois, ping, check link popularity whois-it.com/
• Whonu - Discover/search content (more) intuitively. www.whonu.com/
• Wikimatrix - Find & compare your wikis. www.wikimatrix.org/
• Wink - Folksonomied search. www.wink.com/
• Yellowbook - Yellow pages aggregator. www.yellowbook.com/
• Yoono - Search, exchange & share information. www.yoono.com/
• Yubnub* - Search & share search commands. www.yubnub.org/
• Zigtag - Search, save & share results. www.zigtag.com/

SOFTWARE 2.0

• 301url - Shorten your url. www.301url.com/
• 37signals* - Basecamp, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List. www.37signals.com/
• Abaqueinside - Catalogue ware. www.abaqueinside.com/
• Ajax - Mozilla developer community. developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX
• Ajaxpaterns - Ajax developers portal. ajaxpatterns.org/
• Ajaxshowcase - Aggregates Ajax applications. www.ajaxshowcase.com/
• Ataja - Shorten your url. www.ataja.es/
• B2evolution - Open source blog engine. www.b2evolution.net/
• Backbase* - Ajax applications. www.backbase.com/
• Bluepulse - Internet 2 cell phone. bluepulse.com/
• Codase - Search for & share code. www.codase.com/
• Cordance - Dataweb technologies. www.cordance.net/
• Cyberdummy - Share code. www.cyberdummy.co.uk/
• Django - Python apps. www.djangoproject.com/
• Dojo - Share JS tools. www.dojotoolkit.org/
• Easyutil - Api for recommendations. www.easyutil.com/
• Elfurl - Make long url’s short. elfurl.com/
• Krugle - Search open source software. www.krugle.com/
• Mendix*~ - Semantic application development www.mendix.com
• Meta - Forum software inc. tags & ranking. www.blursoft.com/meta/
• Mochikit - Suite of JS libraries. www.mochikit.com/
• Montastic - Monitor your website. www.montastic.com/
• Mozilla - Browser add-ons & mash-ups. https://addons.mozilla.org/
• Ning - Create social apps. www.ning.com/
• Notlong - Shorten your url. notlong.com/
• Openrico - Open source Java library. www.openrico.org/
• Oszone - Share code. oszone.org/
• Plogger - Open source photo gallery system. www.plogger.org/
• Processing - Share code for imaging, animations, sound. www.processing.org/
• Projectip - Recognizes anything on your computer. projectip.com/
• Qooxdoo - javascript GUI toolkit. qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/
• Radrails - Develop Ruby on Rails apps. www.radrails.org/
• Rubyonrails* - Web development framework. www.rubyonrails.com/
• Scriptacilous - Javascript libraries 2.0 style. script.aculo.us/
• Sitevista - Test your website. www.sitevista.com/
• Swik - Search for open source software. swik.net/
• Textsnippets - Share code. www.textsnippets.com/
• Urlx - Shorten your URL. www.urlx.org/
• Visualcomplexity - Visualize complexity. www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/about.html
• Vivox - Solutions for communities, communications, games. www.vivox.com/
• Weborb - Build, deploy & host rich client apps. www.themidnightcoders.com/
• Webripper - Rip files from sites. webripper.dnsalias.com/
• Wordcast - Host, manage, measure & monetize podcasting. wordcast.audible.com/wordcast/
• Wsfinder - Search APIs and web services. wsfinder.jot.com/
• Yahoo developer network - Javascript developer center. developer.yahoo.net/javascript/
• Zoho creator - Create & share applications. www.zoho.com/

STATS 2.0

• Blogbeat - Blog analytics software. www.blogbeat.net/
• Crazy egg - Improve effectiveness of your site. crazyegg.com/
• Delineate - Folksonomied visitor stats. www.delineateit.com/
• Google Analytics - Site analytics software. www.delineateit.com/
• Mapstats - Map blog traffic. mapstats.blogflux.com/
• Mint - Site analytics software. www.haveamint.com/
• My blog log - Blog analytics. www.mybloglog.com/

TAGGING 2.0

• 30daytags - Fresh tagclouds. www.30daytags.com/
• Cloudalicious - Follow site’s tags over time. cloudalicio.us/
• Groopus - Visualize your social context based on tags. groop.us/
• Neato -Tagging plug-in for Wordpress. www.neato.co.nz/
• Tag cloud - Folksonomied, personalized tag clouds. www.tagcloud.com/
• Tagfacts - Tag & share your notes. www.tagfacts.com/
• Tagsy - Social bookmarking & feed management. www.tagsy.com/
• Zoom clouds - Make & publish tag clouds. www.zoomclouds.com/

TASK MANAGER 2.0

• 9Remember the milk - Manage tasks, together. www.rememberthemilk.com/
• My tickler file - Manage your and others’ tasks. www.myticklerfile.com/
• Sproutliner - Manage your tasks. sproutliner.com/
• Time tracker - Keep track of time. www.formassembly.com/time-tracker/
• Tracks life - Manage & share your to do-lists. www.trackslife.com/

TEXT 2.0

• Bbbuddy - Organize, store, edit & share your texts. www.bbbuddy.com/
• Bibli - Publish & share texts. www.bibli.ca/
• Citeulike - Store, share, manage academic papers. www.citeulike.org/
• Cluebacca - Storing & organizing text clips. www.cluebacca.com/
• Glypho - Read & write books together. www.glypho.com/
• Ilovetravelstories - Publish or bookmark & rank travel stories. www.ilovetravelstories.com/
• Livejournal - Blogging solution & social software. www.livejournal.com/
• Reader2 - Share reading lists. reader2.com/
• Readitswapit - Swap books. www.readitswapit.co.uk/
• Sharingpoint - Publish, link to & share health information. www.sharingpoint.net/
• Text To Picture - Add text into various image templates (makes images). www.txt2pic.com/
• Wikipedia* - Read & co-edit encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
• Wikitravel - Read & co-edit travel guide. wikitravel.org/en/
• Wisdomark - Collaborate on publishing & sharing stories. wisdomark.com/
• World66 - Read & co-edit travel guide. www.world66.com/

TEXT2SPEECH 2.0

• Ask Merlin - Ask a question, get an answer. www.comicstripgenerator.com/tools/
• Canada Talking Search Engine. www.friendlycanadian.com/
• Quit Smoking - This talking nagger will help you kick cigarettes. web20appz.com/tools/quit-smoking.asp
• Readspeaker - Text2speech app. www.readspeaker.com/
• Springdoo - Add your voice to your email. www.springdoo.com/
• Time Aloud - Reads the time out loud, TTS. seekfreak.com/time/
• Text To Speech - Enter your phrase and have Merlin speak it. www.friendlycanadian.com/text2speech/

TIME MANAGEMENT 2.0

• TikTrac - Time management. tiktrac.com/

TRACK & TRACE 2.0

• Packagemapper - Track your package on a map. packagemapper.com/

VIDEO 2.0

• Adultswim - Episode previews, games, community. www.adultswim.com/
• Ajaxilicious - Share your movies thru RSS. movies.ajaxilicious.be/
• Blinkx - Personalized epg. searchus.blinkx.com
• Broadbandsports - Upload & share sports videos. www.broadbandsports.com/
• Clipshack - Upload & send video. www.clipshack.com/
• Dailymotion - Upload & share videos. www.dailymotion.com/
• Evoketv - Localized epg (ajax). www.evoketv.com/
• Getdemocracy - Watch or make tv. www.getdemocracy.com/
• Mefeedia - Videoblog search. www.mefeedia.com/
• Mightyv - Web based tv search & epg (UK). www.mightyv.com/
• Openvlog - Upload & record video. www.openvlog.com/
• Pooxi - Upload & (revenue) share video. www.pooxi.com/
• Theunseenvideo - Video & weather mash-up animation. www.theunseenvideo.com/
• Truveo - Ranked video search. www.truveo.com/
• Turnhere - Upload & share video (local). www.turnhere.com/
• Veoh - Upload & share videos. www.veoh.com/
• Videobomb - Submit & vote for video links. videobomb.com/
• Videoegg - Capture, edit & publish video. www.videoegg.com/
• Vimeo - Upload & share video. www.vimeo.com/
• Vsocial - Upload, rank & share video. www.vsocial.com/
• Woomu - Submit, vote for & rank videos. www.woomu.com/
• Yashi - Upload & share video. www.yashi.com/
• Youtube* - Upload & share video. www.youtube.com/
• Zippyvideos - Upload & share video. www.zippyvideos.com/

VOICE2MAIL 2.0

• Spinvox - From voice to text to mobile or email. www.spinvox.com/

VOICEMAIL 2.0

• Yackpack - Group voicemail. www.yackpack.com/

WEB2FEED 2.0

• Feed43 - Web page & blog 2 rss. feed43.com/
• Feedtier - Web page & blog 2 rss. feedtier.somee.com/

WI-FI 2.0

• Fon - Share, buy, sell wi-fi connections. www.fon.com

WIKIS 2.0

• Epictrip - Multimedia travel wiki. www.epictrip.com/
• Foopad - Create your own wiki. www.foopad.com/
• Schtuff - Wiki service. www.schtuff.com/
• Serversidewiki - Mini-wiki. www.serversidewiki.com/
• Socialtext - Enterprise wiki solutions. www.socialtext.com/
• Stikipad - Wiki solution. www.stikipad.com/ (Submitted by Björn Ognibeni).
• Wikispaces - Collaborative content & editing. www.wikispaces.org/

WISHLIST 2.0

• 8by1 - Share your wish. www.8by1.com/
• Giftornot - Get ideas for gifts (Amazon mash-up). www.giftornot.com/

WORD 2.0

• Barewiki - Make a wiki in seconds. barewiki.com/
• Fckeditor - Web based word processor. www.fckeditor.net/
• Formassembly - Create, host & manage forms. www.formassembly.com/
• Goffice - Web based word processing. www.goffice.com/
• Ijot - Write, manage, publcish share text files. www.ijot.net/
• Inetword - Web based word processing. www.inetword.com/
• Jotform - Make your Ajax webforms. www.jotform.com/
• Litespellchecker - Check spelling as you type. me.eae.net/stuff/litespellchecker/litedemo.html
• Nativetext - Translates rss in foreign languages. www.nativetext.com/
• Orangoo - Spelling checker. www.orangoo.com/spell/
• Pbwiki - Make a wiki. pbwiki.com/
• Synchroedit - Group editor. www.synchroedit.com/
• Wideword - Collaborative word processing. https://www.wideword.net/
• Wideword - Create & share documents online. https://wideword.net/
• Writeboard* - Write, share, revise & compare documents. writeboard.com/
• Writely - Store, edit & share documents. www.writely.com
• Zohowriter - Online word processor. www.zohowriter.com

WRITE 2.0

• Bigoven - Publish & share recipes. www.bigoven.com/
• Extratasty - publish & share drink recipes. www.extratasty.com/
• Travbuddy - Submit & share travel stories. www.travbuddy.com/

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

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

FUN 2.0

• Beggr - Give me your money. www.beggr.com/
• Comedy Search Engine - Thousands of comedy links. www.comedysearchengine.com/
• Sign Generators (Flash). www.signgenerator.net/
• Web2.0validator - Screen your website on 2.0-ishness. web2.0validator.com/

GAMBLING 2.0

• Poserfish - P2P betting, free. www.poserfish.com/

GAMES 2.0

• Alexadex* - Buy & sell shares in sites. Alexa mash-up. alexadex.com/ad/
• Arcaplay - Rate & share games. arcaplay.com/
• SHoot the Celebrities (celeb SHoot-out). www.famousdefaces.com/
• Averageshoveler - Game & RSS news mash-up. www.zanni.org/average.htm
• Bliss - Customize game to couple’s needs. www.gamesforloving.com/
• Bunchball - Play games with your friends. www.bunchball.com/
• Fastr - Guess game; Flickr mash-up. - randomchaos.com/games/fastr/
• Gibbity - Contribute & review games. www.gibbity.com/
• Guess-the-google - Guess game; Google mash-up. grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/
• Imstar - IM & game with your 3D avatar. imstar.com/
• Ispott - Mobile treasure hunt. www.ispott.com/
• Llor - Build your street. www.llor.nu/
• Memory - Memory + Yahoo images mash-up. bryngfors.com/index.php?page_id=10
• Millionsofgames - Review & share games. www.millionsofgames.com/
• Montage-a-google - Tag based random photo montage; Google mash-up. grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/
• Multitap - Share, rate, discuss & categorize screenshots. multitap.net/
• Naughtyamerica* - Multiplayer video sexgame. www.naughtyamericathegame.com/
• Phrasr - Add photos to phrases; Flickr mash-up. www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/
• Spell with Flickr - Spell names with photos; Flickr mash-up. metaatem.net/words/

HOSTING 2.0

• 30gigs - Store your data. www.30gigs.com/
• 4shared - Upload & share files. 4shared.com/
• Allmydata - Store & share your data. www.allmydata.com/
• Bolt - Watch, upload & share media. www.bolt.com/
• Box - Store & share data. www.box.net/
• Bryght - Create & maintain a community. www.bryght.com/
• Gdisk - Hosting thru Gmail. gdisk.sourceforge.net/
• Grokthis - Aplication hosting. www.grokthis.net/
• Hula - Manage calendars & email. www.hula-project.org/
• Joyent - ASP hosting of email, calendars, contacts… www.joyent.com/
• Mailbigfile - Mail large files. www.mailbigfile.com/
• Mozy - Upload & backup your files. www.mozy.com/
• Multiply - Store, share & discuss your data. multiply.com/
• Omnidrive - Store & access data. www.omnidrive.com.au/
• Openomy - Upload your files & use extra apps. www.openomy.com/
• Ourmedia - Store & share data. www.ourmedia.org/
• Pando* - Store & share data. www.pando.com/
• Putfwd - Store & exchange data. www.putfwd.com/
• Railsbase - Application hosring (Ruby-based). railsbase.com/
• Smartimagine - Store & manage your image & media files. smartimagine.com/
• Sproutit - Manage your email - www.sproutit.com/
• Store & share audio, video, clippings. www.esnips.com/
• Strongspace - Upload, store, back-up & share your files. www.strongspace.com/
• TextDrive - Hosted applications. www.textdrive.com/
• Vast – Build and Augment Your Own Services. vast.com/contact/api.htm
• Xdrive - Store & share your data. www.xdrive.com/
• Xmailharddrive - Store data thru Gmail. www.xmailharddrive.com/
• Zingee - Store & share files. www.zingee.com/

IDENTITY 2.0

• Calaimid - Manage your online identity. claimid.com/
• Myme - Create your online avatar. www.my-me.com/
• Sxip - Control personal digital identity. www.sxip.com/

IMAGES 2.0

• 23hq - Store, share & manage photos. www.23hq.com/
• Danbooru - Upload, tage & share images. danbooru.donmai.us/
• Dropshots - Upload & share photos & video. www.dropshots.com/
• Flappr - Search pictures; Flickr mash-up. bcdef.org/flappr/
• Flickr - Upload & share photos. www.flickr.com/
• Flickr photo finder - Find & publish photos. www.wynia.org/experiments/phpflickr/
• Flickr* - Manage & share your photos. www.flickr.com/
• Flickrfling - RSS feeds & Flickr mash-up. www.nastypixel.com/prototype/?p=80
• Flickrlicious. Share Babes on Flickr. www.flickrlicio.us/
• Flyinside - Create, publish & share virtual photo tours. www.flyinside.com/
• Fotki - Upload, share, print photos. www.fotki.com/
• Fotoflix - Upload & share photos. www.fotoflix.com/
• Fotolia* - Buy & sell images. www.fotolia.com/
• Fotolog - Create & map your phlog. www.fotolog.com/
• Groupr - Groups photos from Flickr groups. groupr.200ok.net/
• Illhostit - Host your images. www.illhostit.com/
• Istockphoto - Buy & sell images. www.istockphoto.com/index.php
• Jellybarn - Upload, edit, manage, share your photos. www.jellybarn.com/
• Ondergrond~ - Upload photos of public art. www.ondergrond.org/
• Phlog~ - Upload & share photos. phlog.net/
• Photobloggr - Find tags on name; Flickr mash-up. photobloggr.com/
• Photobucket - Upload, publish & share photos. www.photobucket.com/
• Photomap - Add photos to locations; multi mash-up. photomap.mozdev.org/
• Picturecloud - 360o view on your pics. www.picturecloud.com/
• Pixagogo - Upload, manage & share photos. www.pixagogo.com/
• Sharpcast - Manage your mobile photos online. sharpcast.com/
• Shutterbook - Store & share photos. www.shutterbook.com/
• Shutterfly - Store, share & print photos. www.shutterfly.com/
• Slide* - Upload & share photos. www.slide.com/
• Slidestory - Publish stories with photo slideshows. www.slidestory.com/
• Smilebox - Pimp up your photo presentation. www.smilebox.com/
• Smugmug - Store & share photos. www.smugmug.com/
• Tagworld - Store & share photos. www.tagworld.com/
• Tickr - Flickr desktop ticker. www.stuffonfire.com/2006/01/tickr_for_flickr_10_v6.html
• Zooomr. Search photos in many languages. beta.zooomr.com/home
• Zoto - Uload, phlog & share. www.zoto.com/

IMAGING 2.0

• Avatar Maker - Custom avatars for blogs/forums. www.avatargenerator.org/
• Blog Headers - Make document headers. www.headerbar.com/
• Colorblender - Color picker & matcher. www.colorblender.com/
• Colorcell - Find beautiful color combinations. colorcell.uneven.org/
• Colr* - Play with color photos & publish results. www.colr.org/
• Animated Glitter Effects - 500 templates, text to animation. www.glitterizer.com/
• Colrpickr - Color picker. krazydad.com/colrpickr/
• Epassportphoto - Upload, manipulate, download your photo. www.epassportphoto.com/
• Flashpaint - Draw & share pictures. www.flashpaint.com/
• Flowermaker - Design flowers. www.zefrank.com/flowers/
• Gliffy - Draw & share diagrams. www.gliffy.com/
• Imageeditor - Edit your images online. www.imageeditor.net/
• Image Generator - Customize images online, 5,000 templates. www.imagegenerator.org/
• Photostack - Manage images (Ajax). www.photostack.org/
• Picasa - Find, edit & share photos. picasa.google.com/
• Picturecloud - 360o view on your pics. www.picturecloud.com/
• Pixelgroup - Draw anything with others. blog.outer-court.com/pixel/
• Pxn8 - Manipulate & publish your photos. www.pxn8.com/
• Rasterbator - Creates rasterized images. homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
• RSS/XML Buttons - Clean looking simple buttons. www.rssbuttons.com/
• Smilebox - Pimp up your photo presentation. www.smilebox.com/
• Textorizer - Image2Text. textorizer.whatfettle.com/
• Txt2JPG - Convert text to JPEG images online (email signatures). www.txt2jpg.com/
• Web 2.0 Button Maker - Rounded corners and more. www.web2.0button.com/
• Webimager - Capture screens & upload them to Flickr. phpspot.net/php/flickr/

JOBS 2.0

• Bixee - Job finder. www.bixee.com/
• Glendor - Job finder; map mash-up. www.glendor.com/
• Indeed - Finds jobs on what & where. www.indeed.com/
• Jobazaar - Tagged job offerings. www.jobazaar.com/
• Pagebites - Resume search. www.pagebites.com/
• Sidejobtrack - Job tracker. www.sidejobtrack.com/
• Simplyhired - Local job search. www.simplyhired.com/
• Simplyhired - Search biggest jobs dbase. www.simplyhired.com/
• Yorz - Join group, upload resume. www.yorz.com/

KNOWLEDGE 2.0

• Blinkbits - Share knowledge. www.blinkbits.com/
• Brainreactions - Participate in brainstorms & share ideas. www.brainreactions.net/
• Copyscape - Manage rights online. www.copyscape.com/
• Echosign - Contract management. www.echosign.com/public/compose
• Grokker - Enterprise search & knowledge management. www.grokker.com/
• Hanzoweb - Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online. hanzoweb.com/
• Jots - Information sharing. www.jots.com/
• Kaboodle - Information sharing. www.kaboodle.com/
• Oyogi - Share Q&A. www.oyogi.com/
• Postgenomic* - Share & rank life science knowledge. www.postgenomic.com/
• Pubsub - Match your interests with new info. www.pubsub.com/
• Root/vaults* - Store, manage & share knowledge online. www.root.net/vaults/
• Squidoo - Share knowledge. www.squidoo.com/
• Tractis - Negotiate & sign contract, solve disputes online. www.tractis.com/
• Wondir - Share Q&A. www.wondir.com/
• Yahooanswers - Share Q&A. answers.yahoo.com/

LISTS 2.0

• 43Things - Publish, share, find your goals. www.43things.com/
• Giftbox - List & manage gifts. www.giftboxhome.com/
• Greedyme - List & share your wishes. www.greedyme.com/
• Listible - Create a shareable list with the World! www.listible.com/
• Metawishlist - List & share your wishes. www.metawishlist.com/
• Myprogs - List & find software. myprogs.net/

MAPPING 2.0

• Bittercyclist - Bicycle accident map & community; map mash-up www.bittercyclist.com/
• Chicagocrime - Crime dbase map mash-up. www.chicagocrime.org/
• Feedmap - Map your blogs. www.feedmap.net/
• Flashearth - Global maps mash-up in flash. www.flashearth.com/
• Flickrmap - Map Flickr photos. www.flickrmap.com/
• Gchart - Check local time globally. www.gchart.com/
• Google Earth* - Global maps. earth.google.com/
• Googlemaps - Check local things globally. maps.google.com/
• Gvisit - Map your site visitors. www.gvisit.com/
• Locallive - Windows maps. local.live.com/
• Map builder - Mash-up your own maps. www.mapbuilder.net/
• Map24 - Route finder; 3D. www.nl.map24.com/
• Mapbuilder - Mash-up your own maps. www.mapbuilder.net/
• Mappr - Map Flickr photos per tag. www.mappr.com/
• Panoramio - Share mapped photos. www.panoramio.com/
• Pervwatch - Perv mash-up. www.pervwatch.org/
• Pheromonetrail - Share places & sites & persons. www.pheromonetrail.com/
• Placeopedia - Wiki + Google maps mash-up. www.placeopedia.com/
• Planiglobe - Create your own map. www.planiglobe.com/
• Platial - Co-create atlas & share places. platial.com/
• Plazes* - Share locations & discover people. www.plazes.com/
• Powermap - Next level Google maps. hobbiton.thisside.net/advmap.html/
• Publicloos - Share public toilets. paul.kedrosky.com/publicloos/
• Tagzania - Share & map places. www.tagzania.com/
• Toeat - Map & share restaurants. www.toeat.com/
• Tripmojo - Map & share hotels. www.tripmojo.com/
• Vlogmap. Map your vlog. www.vlogmap.org/
• Wayfaring - Create & share your maps. www.wayfaring.com/
• Web20map - Web 2.0 companies on map mash-up. www.fourio.com/web20map/
• Yahoo maps* - Global & local maps & search mash-ups. maps.yahoo.com/beta/

MARKETING 2.0

• Alexscoupons - Find coupon deals. www.alexscoupons.com/
• Attentiontrust - Advertising based on mutual understanding. www.attentiontrust.org/
• Cafespot - Social guide to cafes, restaurants, etc. www.cafespot.net/
• Coastr - List & share your beers and beer places. www.coastr.com/
• Dropcash - Create & manage online fundraiser. www.dropcash.com/
• Edgeio - Find classified listings, publish your own. www2.edgeio.com/
• Fruitcast - Podcast advertizing network. www.fruitcast.com/
• Jigsaw - Subscribe, buy, sell sales contacts. www.jigsaw.com/
• Kanoodle - Sponsored links services. www.kanoodle.com/
• Knowmore - Consumers unite! www.knowmore.org/
• Linklike - Link exchange. www.linklike.com/
• My-brand - Manage online advertising online. mybrand.ads-click.net/
• Podtrac - Advertise in podcasts. www.podtrac.com/
• PSFK - Share trends watched. www.psfk.com
• Rbloc - Sell, buy & meet auction market place. www.rbloc.com/
• Riffs - Review & recommendation community. www.riffs.com/
• Root* - Trading platform for realtime consumer data. www.root.net/
• Spotrunner - Recycle, recreate & air tv ads. www.spotrunner.com/
• Tagged business directory. www.tagdirectory.net
• Tagyu - Tag-based advertizing. www.tagyu.com/
• Theadcloud* - Create & tag classified listings. www.theadcloud.com/
• Thisplaceiknow - Share places. www.thisplaceiknow.com/
• Titlez - Get publishing market data from Amazon. www.titlez.com/
• Viral Tshirt Marketing. www.addictivetshirts.com/
• Web marketing 2.0 - Wiki on Marketing 2.0. www.webmarketing20.com/
• Wikicompany - Social business directory. wikicompany.org/
• Wordofblog - Spread the word for good causes. www.wordofblog.net/
• Yellowikis - Social business directory. www.yellowikis.org/
• Zoomtags - Tag cloud based affiliate network. www.zoomtags.com/

MEMO 2.0

• Bitbomb - Web2sms reminders. bitbomb.com/
• Femo - Tag & share memos online. femo.nomadscafe.jp/
• Jotcloud - Leave notes on websites. www.jotcloud.com/
• Loopnote - Notification webware. loopnote.com/
• Mystickies* - Browse, search, sort & edit notes online. www.mystickies.com/
• Pianist - Memo manager online. pianist.publicbeta.jp/app/
• Reminderfeed - Send reminders to your feed reader. www.reminderfeed.com/
• Webnote - Make & share notes. www.aypwip.org/webnote/
• Zohoplanner - Create & share memo’s & notes online. www.zohoplanner.com/

MULTIMEDIA 2.0

• 360yahoo - Blogging. Tagging. Share Photos. Social Networking: 360.yahoo.com/ (Submitted by Britta Harting).
• Avidbeauty - Share photos & sounds. www.avidbeauty.com/
• Broadsnatch - Share multimedia. www.broadsnatch.com/
• Bubbleshare - Phlog, share, add audio captions. www.bubbleshare.com/
• Buzznet - Share videos & photos. www.buzznet.com/
• Castpost - Upload & share your av clips. www.castpost.com/
• Comagz - Cocreate & rate content. www.comagz.com/
• Everybit - Share your media. www.everybit.com/
• Fireant - Upload & share multimedia. www.fireant.tv/
• Glide - Upload & share multimedia. glidedigital.com/
• Grouper - Upload, create & share media. www.grouper.com/
• Hackoff*** - Book published as blog & podcast. www.hackoff.com/
• Junklog - Rate, review & share media. junklog.com/
• Kaneva - Digital entertainment marketplace. www.kaneva.com/
• LifeLogger - Share audio, video & photos. www.lifelogger.com/
• Listal - List & share all your media. www.listal.com/
• Livelocker - Link to, rate & share multimedia. www.livelocker.com/ (Submitted by Norbert Schuler).
• Loomia - Folksonomied media search. www.loomia.com/
• Lulu - Publish & sell your content. www.lulu.com/
• Magnoto - Phlog & blog. www.magnoto.com/
• MediaMax - Store, manage & share media. https://mediamax.streamload.com/
• Myvideokaraoke - Sing & share your song on video. www.myvideokaraoke.com/
• Orb - Stream your media, wherever. www.orb.com/
• Phanfare - Upload & share photos & videos. www.phanfare.com/
• Picpix - Upload & share photos & videos. www.picpix.com/
• Pixpulse - Upload & share photos and videos on your mobile. www.pixpulse.com/
• Quizilla - Create & share content. quizilla.com/
• Shozu - Upload & share photos, videos & text on your mobile. www.shozu.com/
• Songbird - Media player & web browser. www.songbirdnest.com/
• Sonr - Track media & media users. sonr.net/beta/
• Streamdrive - Upload & share multimedia. www.streamdrive.com/
• Streamload - Store & share your media. www.sendspace.com/
• Strmz - Clip & share tv & video. strmz.jot.com/
• Swagroll - List & share all your media. swagroll.com/
• Totoexpress - Hoste, collaborate on, share & deliver content. www.totoexpress.com/
• Vidilife - Upload & share media. www.vidilife.com/
• Yiibu - Remix, adapt, expand, share & sell content. yiibu.com/

NEWS 2.0

• 180n. Choose what’s news. www.180n.com/
• Backfence - Publish & share community news. www.backfence.com/
• Bandnews - Search band news. www.bandnews.org/
• Blogniscient. Rank blog articles. blogniscient.com/
• Buzzingo - Buzz notifier (Yahoo + Feeling Lucky mash-up). www.buzzingo.com/
• Cluckoo - Publish & share local news. www.cluckoo.com/
• Crisscross - Comment on & add to news. www.crisscross.com/
• Dailymashup - Flickr + Delicious + Yahoo news mash-up. dailymashup.com/
• Dailyrotation - Share tech websites’ headlines. www.dailyrotation.com/
• Diggdot - Mash-up news sources to your own taste. diggdot.us/
• Feedxs~ - Social feed reading. www.feedxs.com/
• Findory - Personalize your news. www.findory.com/
• Frankenfeed - Aggregate your feeds. www.frankenfeed.com/
• Gabbr - Share news. www.gabbr.com/
• Hypersuper - Personalize your news. www.hypersuper.com/
• Hypetracker - Popular news searches in graphs. www.hypetracker.com/
• Infocaster~ - News & other media thru RSS. www.infocaster.nl/
• Inform - Social news stories. www.inform.com/
• Knownow - Connecting data, apps & people. www.knownow.com/
• Leve1 - Share news. www.leve1.com/
• Linkedfeed - Folksonomied news. www.linkedfeed.com/
• Megite - Discover & help select news. www.megite.com/
• Memeorandum - Folksonomied news summaries. www.memeorandum.com/
• Newradio - Find & vote for news. n.ewradio.co.uk/
• Newsalloy - Discover, read & share news. www.newsalloy.com/
• Newsbump - Submit & rank news. www.newsbump.net/
• Newsgarbage - Post, moderate & controle news. www.newsgarbage.com/
• Newsvine - Read, write & discuss news. www.newsvine.com/
• Newzingo - News tag cloud; Google News mash-up. newzingo.com/
• Nowpublic - Share, submit & revenue share news content. www.nowpublic.com/
• Nulltag - News tag clouds. www.nulltag.com/
• On2go - News & alerts on your mobile. www.on2go.com/
• Pegasusnews - Neighborhood news, customized. pegasusnews.typepad.com/homepage/
• Reddit - Submit, rate & rank news. reddit.com/
• Rojo - Discover, organize, read & share content. www.rojo.com/
• Sabifoo - Read & publish news through messenger. www.sabifoo.com/
• Scoopgo - Personalized news agents. www.scoopgo.com/
• Shoutwire - Rank & share news. www.shoutwire.com/
• Slashdigg - Slashdot + Digg mash-up. www.slashdigg.com/
• Sponit - Publish & share funny news. sponit.com/
• Squeet - Receive News, Blogs, RSS or feeds in your email. www.squeet.com/
• Stockdigg - Read, submit & rank financial news. www.stockdigg.com/
• Strategicboard - Share tech news. www.strategicboard.com/
• Tailrank - Read news (ranking through algorithm). www.tailrank.com/
• Theport - Create & host your own news aggregator. www.theport.com/
• Topix - Share & discuss news. www.topix.net/
• Wordnews - News tagged in Times. www.typedown.com/external-01/news/yahoo-wordnews.php
• Yahoo Tag Soup - News tag cloud; Yahoo News mash-up. yahoo.theherrens.com/

OFFICE 2.0

• Agatra - Web-based password saving. https://www.agatra.com/
• Avvenu - Remote access to your computer. www.avvenu.com/
• Eyeos - Virtual office operating system. www.eyeos.org/
• Mywebdesktop - Personal & collaborative desktop functions. www.mywebdesktop.net/
• Thinkfree - Web based office suite. online.thinkfree.com/
• Zohovirtualoffice - Online office suite. www.zoho.com/virtual-office/

OS 2.0

• Xin - Online OS for Ajax serverapps. www.naltabyte.se

OUTLOOK 2.0

• Plaxo - Contact synchronizer. www.plaxo.com/

PERSONAL MANUFACTURING 2.0

• Ogle - Capture, re-use & 3D print 3D data. ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/

POLLS 2.0

• Contentvote - Add voting to your blog content. www.contentvote.com/
• Dpolls - Create, vote for & search polls. www.dpolls.com/
• Polloo - Polls about happiness. www.polloo.com/
• Pollplaza~ - Collective polling. www.pollplaza.nl/
• Quimble - Create, vote for & search polls. www.quimble.com/
• Rateitall - Rate & share opinions on everything. www.rateitall.com/
• Zohochallenge - Collective polling. www.zohochallenge.com/

PORTAL 2.0

• #1 Web2.0Search Engine - Just search for it now! www.web20searchengine.com/
• 24eyes - Personal portal. www.24eyes.com/
• Browsr - Social directory. www.bloxor.com/
• CompareSearch - Side by side search engine comparisons. www.13kg.com/
• Eskobo - Personal portal. www.eskobo.com/
• Favoor - Personal portal. www.favoor.com/
• Feedication - Personal portal. www.feedication.com/
• Feedpile - Store & share feeds & links. feedpile.com/
• Feedtv - Feed portal. www.feedfeeds.com/
• Fold - Personal portal. www.fold.com/
• Fyuze - Feed portal. www.fyuze.com/
• Google IG* - Personal portal. www.google.com/ig
• GoogleIG - Personal portal. www.google.com/ig
• Googlemodules - Lists modules for personal Google homepage. www.googlemodules.com/
• Goowy* - Personal portal (desktop & browser versions). webserver002.goowy.com/
• Gritwire - Personal portal. www.gritwire.com/
• Inbox - Personal portal. www.inbox.com/
• Itsastart - Personal portal. www.itsastart.com/
• Klipfolio - Personal portal. www.serence.com/
• Mobileglu - Web services to your mobile. www.mobileglu.com/
• Netvibes* - Personal portal. www.netvibes.com/
• Pageflakes - Personal portal. www.pageflakes.com/
• Pobb - Personal portal. www.pobb.net/
• Presearch - Searching start portal of portals. www.presearcher.com/
• Protopage - Personal portal. www.protopage.com/
• Pushy*~ - Personal portal; also mobile. www.pushy.com
• Start - Personal portal. www.start.com/
• Superglu - Delicious/Flickr/Blogger/Etc mash-up. www.suprglu.com/
• Web20Toolbar - Toolbar packed with Web2 apps. www.best-toolbar.com/
• Windowslive - Personal portal. www.live.com/
• Wrickr - Personal portal. www.wrickr.com/

POWERPOINT 2.0

• Thumbstack - Make & share presentations online. www.thumbstacks.com/

PROJECTS 2.0

• Airset - Manage & share calendars, contacts, groups. www.airset.com/
• Basecamp - Manage your projects. www.basecamphq.com/
• Centraldesktop - Group project management. www.centraldesktop.com/
• Citadel* - Communicate & share in groups. www.citadel.org/
• Dotproject - Open source project management tools. www.dotproject.net/
• Gootodo - Online to-do service gootodo.com/
• Harvest - Timesheets & reports. www.getharvest.com/
• Inventiondb - Create & share online project space. www.inventiondb.com/
• Ioutliner - Manage tasks & projects. www.ioutliner.com/
• Issuetrackerproduct - Track & manage bugs & other issues. www.issuetrackerproduct.com/
• Keepmytime - Web-based timekeeping. www.keepmytime.com/
• Near-time. Share resources & collaborate. www.near-time.net/
• Projectplace - Run & co-ordinate projects. www.projectplace.com/
• Projectspaces - Work together. www.forumone.com/section/services/projectspaces/
• Taskfreak - Task manager online. www.taskfreak.com/
• Taskspro - Group task manager. www.taskspro.com/
• Veetro - Create & share online project space. www.veetro.com/
• Webcollaborator - Collaborate online. www.webcollaborator.com/
• Zohoplanner - Create & share memo’s & notes online. www.zohoplanner.com/

PUBLISHING 2.0

• Blogprinting - Publish, print & sell it. www.blogprinting.com/
• Picaboo - Print photo book on demand. www.picaboo.com/

READ 2.0

• Chainreading - List, review & recommend books. www.chainreading.com/

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

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

“Businesses have learned some hard lessons,” says Steve Prentice, vice president and fellow at Gartner. “They need to realize that virtual worlds mark the transition from Web pages to Web places and a successful virtual presence starts with people, not physics.”

The adoption of virtual worlds for the enterprise began picking up steam this year, buoyed by the success of Second Life, a 3-D environment in the consumer space where people interact with one another as avatars (virtual representations of themselves).

Other consultancies, such as Forrester, predicted virtual worlds would rival the internet in overall importance to businesses.

Despite the high failure rate the research did indicate virtual worlds will catch on as companies understand what types of use cases work best for implementing them. By 2012, around 70 percent of organizations will have set up private virtual worlds, Gartner predicts. Virtual worlds set up for employees to collaborate internally will have a high success rate because of “lower expectations, clearer objectives and better constraints.”

The other upside to virtual worlds for the enterprise: cost. According to Gartner, the cost of implementing a corporate virtual platform averages $50,000, and cheaper trials can cost $5,000. The report argues this low-cost will encourage more experimentation by businesses.

As if warfare weren’t already creepy enough, BAE Systems, a British defense company, has released a promotional video of robotic spiders, dragonflies and snakes it is developing to aid soldiers in combat zones. The robotic creatures are being funded by a $38 million contract with the U.S. Army that is part of a massive, and costly, effort to modernize the weaponry of the armed forces. The robots will slither and crawl around corners, into caves, and through booby-trapped streets, sending images back to screens in a command center or to a screen mounted on a soldiers wrist.

The purpose is to “extend the warfighter’s senses and reach, providing operational capabilities that would otherwise be costly, impossible, or deadly to achieve,” says Joseph Mait, MAST cooperative agreement manager for the Army Research Laboratory.

Other remote controlled devices are in the works as well, such as the unmanned drones that are currently used for bombing raids and reconnaissance. The hope is that using these robots will cut down on the number of casualties suffered by U.S. forces, and possibly civilians, while improving the accuracy of missile attacks and raids. However the potential for misuse of these robots, such as spying on citizens or other governments, is straight out of some sci-fi movie.

In any case we hope we never see one of these little creatures on our windowsill. [Source: Daily Mail UK]

Promotional video shows a ‘bug’ being sent into a danger zone in a special vehicle

“What we are doing is providing an enhanced awareness for soldiers, basically an extension to their eyes and ears,” he said.

“The creatures have external sensors. They can be tossed out into a building or a cave or even a pile of rubble and then send images back to the troops.

Pictures from the bug are beamed back to the operator, allowing the target to be blown up

“The idea is to get a number of these working together – some tiny, some maybe up to a foot in length, and all going into a building together carrying out different tasks. Eventually we hope to have animals flying and slithering.

“The five-year programme has just started but we could have them with soldiers within six months, and then continue to develop the concept as the project goes along.”

Despite the high-tech gadgetry involved, BAE Systems insists once production is in full swing, each bug will cost no more than £100 to produce.

From the Digg Blog: Among the recent enhancements:

- We’ve added XFN to your user profile. XFN is an open standard that makes it easier for other social Web sites to recognize your Digg friends.

- We’ve improved support for hCard, another open data format for communicating Digg user names, nicknames, and photos, so that your favorite friend-following tools can more easily display your friends’ activity.

- We’ve added RDFa, making Digg part of the “semantic web” where Web pages become more sophisticated, beyond simply words and pictures.

These efforts support our philosophy that you own your data.

These steps are a good move forward for DataPortability. But still a long way to go, Digg!

Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told employees in a company assembly Thursday that he knows how much he’d spend to buy Yahoo and accelerate his company’s Internet play.

“We’re willing to pay for that at some level, and beyond that level we’re not willing to pay for it. I know exactly what I think Yahoo is worth to me,” the executive said. “I won’t go a dime above, and I will go to what I think it’s worth if that gets the deal done.”

But he didn’t offer a figure, and he didn’t say whether Microsoft is considering raising its unsolicited bid, worth $44.6 billion at the time it was made in early February.

The offer is currently worth about $42.4 billion, or $29.48 per share, based on Microsoft Corp.’s closing stock price Thursday. Yahoo Inc. has rejected the offer, saying it undervalues the company. Microsoft’s board has been considering whether to raise the bid to as much as $33 per share, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Ballmer didn’t provide any new insight into the company’s efforts to buy the Silicon Valley pioneer during the meeting at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., headquarters, but he did indicate that an end to months of speculation was near.

“We ought to announce something in relatively short order,” Ballmer told employees.

His comments were first reported by Silicon Alley Insider, an online technology news site, and confirmed by a Microsoft spokesman.

Ballmer added that buying Yahoo is just one of many moving parts in the software maker’s strategy to compete with Google Inc. in search and Web advertising, and that if neither a friendly nor a hostile deal “look good,” he’s willing to walk away.

Microsoft’s board met Wednesday but reached no decision on a next step, the Journal reported. The software maker had given Yahoo until last weekend to agree to a deal or face the prospect of an ugly proxy fight.

Meanwhile, Yahoo is exploring a possible advertising partnership with Internet search leader Google Inc. or a merger with the online operations of Time Warner Inc.’s AOL as possible defenses if Microsoft tries a hostile takeover.

Impressed by a two-week test completed last month, Yahoo could firm up a long-term deal within a week, according to the Journal. Any alliance between Yahoo and Google would face intense antitrust scrutiny, however, because the two companies control more than 80 percent of the U.S. market for search advertising.

Yahoo and Google hope to allay those concerns by structuring their deal so their rivals, including Microsoft, could participate in an auction-based system, the Journal said.

Well, a few months on and it looks like the BBC had a coder create an application (in three hours or less) that could swipe a whole pile of data on both you and your friends, before mailing it back home to base. I can’t stress enough - when it comes to social networking sites, NEVER post anything you wouldn’t feel comfortable posting on an otherwise open and accessible site such as your blog, personal website, whatever. I have pages on Myspace, Facebook, Orkut and a whole bunch of others - and there is NOTHING on them that you couldn’t find elsewhere. There is no hidden treasure trove of data to mine, and so I don’t care what happens to it because it’s all out there in the public domain anyway. This is what I’ve been telling people for the longest time, and it works.

The hacker in this case has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications have permission to ‘walk the tree’ of your friend contact details, letting the apps do things like populate the list of people for you to forward to, when you choose to “forward this and see what happens.”

We have discovered a way to steal the personal details of you and all your Facebook friends without you knowing.

The article is worth reading. Wow, good job British hax0rz! I won’t say “the sky is falling” because this has been pretty well-known among the geek-o-rati for a long time. BBC notes MySpace apps run on MySpace’s servers, giving MySpace a much clearer idea of what an application is doing with the data.

Perhaps the media attention this is sure to draw will move FB to a more secure model. One can hope.

Edwin Aoki is a Technology Fellow at AOL. Holding a joint degree in Computer Science and Sociology from Harvard College, Edwin believes strongly in the ability of technology to bring people closer together and to make our lives easier. He’s worked at Apple Computer, Go Corporation, and Intuit before joining Netscape Communications in 1996.

At Netscape, Edwin worked on the Netscape Communicator browser, enterprise products, and web applications prior to the company’s acquisition by AOL. Currently, Edwin oversees architecture and technology strategy for most of AOL’s consumer facing products and represents the company at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

What is the Open AIM Program?
Through the Open AIM Program, AOL is providing open access to both the AIM® code base and the AOL® Instant Messaging community.

It includes access to AIM Presence functionality, the AIM Software Developer Kit (SDK), which allows you to build AIM Plugins and AIM Custom Clients, and Web AIM, our web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) for incorporating IM functionality into web pages.

The figure above describes the basic system architecture of Deep Green, comprised of the Commander’s Associate (with three sub-components, the Sketch to Plan, Automated Options Generation, and the Sketch to Decide), Blitzkrieg, and Crystal Ball. This illustration was picked from a 2007 DARPA’s document about the Deep Green Approach. Some components might have slightly changed since 2007.

But what exactly is Deep Green? “Deep Green is a next-generation, commander-centered battle command and decision support technology that interleaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead, identify when a plan is going awry, and prepare options — before they are needed.” This program is managed by Colonel John R. “Buck” Surdu who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University.

According to the USC news release mentioned above, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) will receive $7.6 million from DARPA for the two projects it’s heading.

The first one is headed by Paul Cohen, a professor in computer science and director of the Center for Research on Unexpected Events (CRUE), with the help of research scientist Yu-Han Chang. Cohen noted that even if the program was named Deep Green by reference to the IBM’s Deep Blue chess playing program, a battlefield and a chess board are very different.

Here are some quotes from Cohen picked from a previous news release from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering News, “Deep Green Models Rapid Change for Combat Commanders” (March 31, 2008). “‘Chess is a special, artificial situation,’ Cohen notes. ‘The pieces occupy fixed positions for long intervals, then move instantaneously.’ The battlefield is a very different place, Cohen says. There, units on both sides are in continuous motion. Moreover, chess players can see the whole board, whereas commanders have limited visibility of the battlefield. A program like Deep Blue visualizes where pieces might move in the future, based on the moves possible for knight, bishop, and so on. The problem for Deep Green is that time and location change continuously, so the very notion of a ’state of the board’ needs a new formulation.”

A second program is handled by Robert Lucas, director of ISI’s computational science division, and Dan Davis, project director of the ISI’s Joint Experimentation on Scalable Parallel Processors program. Their goal is to “take Cohen and Chang’s work out of laboratory situations by finding ways to put the huge computational resources necessary into a system that Cohen could actually be used in chaotic wartime conditions.”

Here are additional details. “Chang and Cohen’s program, called Adversarial Continuous Time and Space Search, (ACCTS), represents collections of interacting combatants (units) by what are called ‘fluents,’ a concept close to the time-space operators called vectors familiar to first-year physics students.” Davis and Lucas are working to create “a system that links to portable electronics; a very efficient, bandwidth-saving, distributed computing platform and an effective method for assessing local computation and communications limitations. If it can be done — if they can create a very large trans-globally distributed computer network that still requires very little bandwidth, the Deep Green system can be made scalable — ‘it will run effectively on one processor to 20 processors on scene, or hundreds within the battlespace, or thousands across the globe,’ Lucas explained.”

The researchers acknowledge that many problems remain to be solved and that the Deep Green program will not be used on the battlefield before a few years.

Sources: Eric Mankin, University of Southern California (USC); and various websites

As a technical sport motor racing demands of its participants a close understanding of the technologies that can help them. F1 motor racing is probably second only to the aerospace industry in the application of aerodynamic simulation and wind tunnel technology. It is a testament to the rapid advance of Linux in high performance computing that most teams in Formula 1 have been using Linux systems in their aerodynamic and engine workshops for a number of years.

“Formula One is a product excellence business that’s all about innovation and technology,” says Jonathan Neale, the managing director of McLaren Racing. “We’re competing for first place in an environment where the difference between first and tenth is about 0.6 seconds, so we’re constantly seeking fractions of a second in performance improvement. On average we’ll make a change to the car every 20 minutes during the course of a season, and to do that, simulation is vital in making efficient changes to the car.” Back in the factory, McLaren uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis running on Linux on SGI Altix high performance computers to simulate and predict the car’s behaviour.

Motor racing wasn’t always like this. Once upon a time those daring young men diced with death and each other in their flying machines, with little more than grease blown overalls, a loose flying-helmet, oil-splattered goggles and a V8 engine between them and the oncoming road. The skill of the driver was everything.

Times have changed. Modern motor racing in the 21st century is a team sport, and the difference in performance between the front of the grid and the also rans is measured in hundredths of a second. Every year the cars get faster, the lap records come down, and the drivers and cars reach new limits of endurance and performance, despite a regular tightening of the rules for the sake of safety and increased competitiveness. Every new rule that is imposed to slow the cars down or level the playing field becomes a challenge for the designers, to readjust the vital balance of weight, material, power, downforce, grip, and traction.

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Brian Brazil and the team behind the ultra-free gNewSense Linux distribution have released a beta of the forthcoming 2.0 (or Deltah) series. gNewSense is based on Ubuntu but strips the distribution of non-free components to provide users with a truly free operating system. gNewSense is backed by the Free Software Foundation. Among the changes in this release are that gNewSense is now based on Ubuntu Hardy released

last week; the distribution has new artwork; the browser has been changed from Firefox to Epi

phany, the Gnome browser; non-free GLX has been removed from X/mesa; and there is now support for Debian source packages.

gNewSense can be downloaded here or here (torrent).

gNewSense is derived from Ubuntu, and thus has most of the same functionality. There are a number of differences though.

You can see above the system configuration used for “the breast cancer tumors patient self-test screening. Outlined arrows indicate optional reporting of results to the patient.” (Credit: UC Berkeley, link to a larger version)

And you can see above how this technique could be used for breast cancer detection. On the left, you can see “the DAD [data acquisition device] of the system with two types of gel representing a breast cancer tumor surrounded by normal breast tissue.” The right part shows “econstructed result as it was displayed on the screen of a commercial cellular phone. Warm colors represent higher conductivity regions that are typical of breast cancer lesions.” (Credit: UC Berkeley, link to a larger version)

This research has been led by Boris Rubinsky, professor of bioengineering and mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who also works at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. By the way, this university also has issued its own news release about this imaging technique. Rubinsky worked with PhD student Yair Granot and post-doctoral researcher Antoni Ivorra.

Before going further, let’s first look at how medical imaging is done today. “Most medical imaging devices, said Rubinsky, consist of three essential components: the data acquisition hardware that is connected to the patient, the image processing software and a monitor to display the image. When these components are combined into one unit, machine parts often become redundant, substantially increasing the cost of the device, he said.”

This leads him to break this model. “Rubinsky and his team came up with the novel idea of physically separating these components so that the most complicated element — the processing software used to reconstruct the raw data into a meaningful image — can reside at an offsite central location, presumably in a large center where resources are available for its operation and maintenance. This central location would be used to service multiple remote sites where far simpler machines collect the raw data from the patients.”

And this where the cellphone comes in. “The phone, hooked up to the data acquisition device, would transmit the raw data to the central server where the information would be used to create an image. The server would then relay the image back to the cell phone, where it can be viewed on the cell phone’s screen. ‘This design significantly lowers the cost of medical imaging because the apparatus at the patient site is greatly simplified, and there is no need for personnel highly trained in imaging processing,’ said Ivorra.”

This new medical imaging technique has been published on April 30, 2008 in the open access journal Public Library of Science ONE (PLoS ONE) under the title “A New Concept for Medical Imaging Centered on Cellular Phone Technology.” Here is a link to this article, from which the above images have been picked.

Please read it to discover the potential limitations, such as cellphone compatibility. Here is the final summary. “This study demonstrates the feasibility of using a cellular phone as an integrated part of a medical imaging system in which a robust and independent DAD is connected to the imaging processing site through the cell phone. We believe that this concept has the potential for decreasing the complexity of operating the imaging system at the patient site and make state of the art diagnostic imaging as well as interventional imaging available to people and places that do not have adequate medical imaging now.”

Finally, here is a link to a short video (2 minutes and 30 seconds), in which Rubinsky tells how his team conceived and developed “a new device that uses cellphones to make medical imaging much cheaper and more accessible to the poor.” (Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations).

Sources: University of California at Berkeley news release, April 29, 2008; and various websites

Om Malik wrote at GigaOm, “If Yahoo is turning to Jajah for Voice on IM, then AOL wants to offer others an ability to integrate AIM Call Out service via its Open Voice APIs into softphones, as well as SIP-enabled hardware and cell phones with Wi-Fi connectivity. AIM Call Out is a pay-as-you-go outbound voice calling service built right into AIM.” He continued, “Jajah, AOL Open Voice, Ribbit and scores of others are taking a platform approach to VoIP, hoping that adding voice to applications will drive up minute volume and turn them into a viable business.”

TMCnet.com reports, “Many users are loathe to run multiple IM clients, so many switched from AIM to Skype because they could get IM, plus voice & video — all in a single client. Why bog down system resources with multiple IM clients? I will say AOL has done a good job of beefing up the feature-set of AIM, but one has to wonder if Skype’s momentum is unstoppable.” The piece continues, “In any event, Steve Murphy, Senior Vice President, AOL said, ‘By opening up our voice communications gateway to developers we’re furthering the mission of AIM which is to facilitate the world’s real-time conversations. We’re building on the popularity of the Open AIM program and opening up the AIM Call Out platform, enabling open standards voice communication services to proliferate in the marketplace.’”

• 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 & co