Abhishek

My favorite web 2.0 apps are: seeqpod.com pandora.com meebo.com and I have a lot of clients that I've referred to http://www.response-o-matic.com/

Hope you like them,
Dallas
linkedin.com/in/dallasbeddingfield

Buzzword rocks. I never really got into the whole Google Docs thing, but there's that flashy appeal with Buzzword -- very slick and awesome.

1) twhirl.com
2) remember the milk

Greetings from a rainy and cold Hamburg in Germany ....

Bastian!

Juhani

p.s. I couldn't find a party list for the Web 2.0 Expo, so I created one here: http://en.xihalife.com/b/juhani/1540

Complete with Google Calendar links. Hope to see you in San Francisco!

One startup I really like is Jajah which I think has amazing potential for companies. Another would be RescueTime which has amazing utility.

It helped me a lot in knowing new people from my field, getting job offers, getting advices and even helped launching
my web software reviews blog: http://www.mytestbox.com (which will expand soon)

Meebo is also a good choice if you use the classics (AIM, YM, MSN)...

FriendFeed seems interesting too...

Also news sites like shoutwire and digg.

My pick has to be my start up - www.aroxo.com

We've got a totally new way to buy and sell, private alpha finish, public beta coming up.

M.

SilverbackApp.com
GetSignoff.com

But the apps that I love are...

BaseCamp
Last.FM
Don't Forget the Milk

I use on daily basic mostly two web2.0 apps:
- http://secondbrain.com - to know what my friends are up to and be able to send them personalized collection containing different content
- http://plaxo.com - for similar reasons :

Well, the projects we're working on are of course the ones that most excite me. I wouldn't work on them if they didn't :-) (one is coRank, the other one is still in the kitchen).

But aside from that, the two 2.0 apps that excite me the most (not necessarily the ones I use most often) are Hulu and Zillow. Each of them can revolutionize the markets they address in a *very big way*. Whether they end up doing it or not is yet to see.

1. Google Reader (daily use on web and mobile)
2. zivity (without looking at the busines model :-))
3. xobni (for Outlook)

I would really like to attend this Web 2.0 expo and be ready to go for a trip from Dublin ;)

What I most enjoy with 2.0 apps today is probably the concept of web based desktop system, such as eyeOS. Wherever you are, you can simply access useful data and apps through your web browser and handy interfaces.

Then I would simply say that I am excited by all these 2.0 apps that provide their APIs and allow the expand of mashup applications. A really useful one for me was PropertyMaps, when I was recently seeking for a new accommodation.

-Xavier-

Anyway Zemanta is definitely the thing that excites me most, especially when coding new features and seeing where it can go in the future

http://www.zemanta.com

bye
andraz

At the moment, they're all thinking how do we replicate "Web 2.0" on the mobile screen by essentially just adding in some location based awareness at times. I think there's potential for real revolution in the mobile space once people begin to think of the project from a purely mobile standpoint. However, even though I don't believe many of the projects in the space now go that far, I can't deny they're likely the stepping stones to getting there.

Ever since I started using it, nobody ever bothered me again. People would send me emails offering me jobs, asking for advices, tips, promissing love and weird gadgets and sometimes they even wanted to talk about the weather, well, not anymore!!!

I've managed to isolate myself from any human contact on the web, hopefully until the web 2.0 expo where I will have a hard time avoiding people.

Of course, we are also pretty exited about what we have in the oven at our own start up....

1) Cogmap - Org Chart Wiki
2) Free My Feed - Provides access to authenticated RSS feeds for web-based feed readers

These are valuable resources for businesses.

My current favorites, in no particular order, are:
* last.FM
* BackPack
* NetVibes
* Tumblr
* and, I guess, Facebook

I know I win, but I cannot attend. I find it funny how people have time to goto a conference in the middle of the week. Maybe Ill start my own conference on a Saturday and not in California for once.

Both very slick appealing UI.

Diigo not only provides bookmarking, it allows me to share the knowledge I gain while exploring the web with my staff. At first I thought the new collaborative features in Diigo were just web 2.0 fluff. Now I couldn't live without them.

Evapt
FiveRuns
Itzbig (check out their new VayCay promotion on Facebook)
SolarWinds
Spiceworks
and of course our very own Mumboe!

Speedate.com
Online dating is obviously big money. But it's also too unpredictable. Outright fraud aside, people put their best foot forward in static profiles. One could get a far better read on another in a 2 minute webcam conversation than from browsing a profile or even a chain of emails. How cool would it be to meet 15 new people in 30 minutes and have a far better sense of who you've met? -- those of you who work from home could sneak that into a break!

Yahoo! Pipes and Dapper
Sometimes the most innovative and useful products work in the background. Since launch, Pipes has already been put to so many creative uses--I particularly enjoy how customer support staff are using Pipes to monitor Twitter activity.

Disqus
They bring order to a messy world of blog commenting. Commenting is becoming a substantial source of content, but to be taken seriously, it needs to be more organized. There's simply TOO much content! Disqus helps highlight comments from people who have more clout, and allows people trace to follow the words of commentors they find particularly insightful. I can see many more uses to come from centralized commenting
- subscriptions to "follow" commentors
- hotspots that indicate not only where the most number of comments are taking place, but where the most influential commentors are gathering
- form implicit social graphs based on approval ratings of each other's comments

Even with so many web apps to choose from, I would say that I am particularly impressed with Blist (www.blist.com) and Kirix Strata (www.kirix.com). They are both database applications that fall on two sides of a philosophical line.

Blist is a hosted database with the user interface through a website. This is great for smaller, personal databases scaling possibly to the small business level.

Kirix Strata is a powerhouse for data analysis that scales to all sizes. I must preface this with the fact that I am good friends with the developers, but I use their product on a regular basis at work. They have quoted me on their website. Kirix Strata can pull data from pretty much any source you can think of (csv, spreadsheets, oracle, mysql, html tables on websites) and the ability to mash up all this data is unparalleled by anything else on the market. They just released 1.0.

So my official top 2 for now:

1. Freebase
2. Google Maps

Plz pick me !

Basecamp is far and away my favorite.

1. Facebook's Thrift

-- No one's coming close to innovating this hard when you throw Thrift into the Facebook equation.

2. Yahoo's Pig

-- What a pig of a product. JK, Pig is rad.

3. Hadoop

--- Long distributed storage and processing, short centralized versions of the same.

Join our network to form project-based time reporting and approval teams. It's free to use, with no limits. Each person is their own account and they form/join projects by invitation. Sort of a social network for your time-based relationships.

Supports workers, admins, managers, and even clients. Perfect for distributed teams or groups of freelancers.

With all the talk about cloud computing for business, TimeXchange solves a real business issue - project collaboration and communication.

Great group greeting site. Leave a pledge for Mother Earth here...

http://www.squidnote.com/c/dXvQdj17MEC

1. It allows the user to control their data
2. Aggregates data to a single location
3. Improves the flow of social news

This user control and data aggregation then allows other users to easily and quickly find information WITHOUT having to visit and scan several different sites.

Good stuff.

Seeing a simple concept take off like it has is inspiring.

1. Flickr
2. YouTube
3. Pownce
4. Picnik
5. Google Apps

My Fav 5 OS X web desiging apps

1. Transmit
2. CSSEdit
3. Photoshop
4. Firefox 3
5. Textedit

First, it is the EXPERIENCE - the overall atmosphere of having a conference filled with the power and excitement of the potential to bringing the Web to its next level and beyond! Can you say, "BRAINPOWER?"

Next, of course -- Google App Engine - the long awaited secret is revealed! And, coming from Google, must be AMAZING! I'd love to see a demo of this and some cool ideas of its use. I'm first in line for this one!

One development section that I have my eye on is "Creating the Semantic Mshups.." with the amazing guys from Metaweb. Toby Segaran makes this process look so straightforward in his book “Programming Collective Intelligence”, by using Python examples. This is one of my favorite books. (Maybe he will autograph my copy?!) Huge potential to use these algorithms in so many area!

Next, check out The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)and find out what is going on with freedom issues on the Web - the legal climate around civil liberties and Creative Commons. This will have an impact on how the future of the Web develops with the use of information.

Much more to check out...

Please enter my in the drawing for a ticket to this HISTORIC event!

Thanks,

Laura

Best regards, Da. Am.

If you ever need a dictionary -- give it a shot.

http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/launchpad
http://www.tradevibes.com

1. Gridstone Research's Semantic Net powered search engine for investment research (www.gridstoneresearch.com). What results when you create a "smart" search engine and focus it upon the investment research function?
2. Wikinvest- a fascinating experiment that is seeking to apply complex, adaptive systems theory to financial markets.

And anything with a map is just cool. ALA has a great article out this week on building your own GMaps style stack. Gotta love the fact that everyone can be a cartographer now.

http://www.tweetscan.com/
http://www.alphatwitter.com/

Oh, and then happy with the return of ReadBurner (http://www.readburner.com/)

We're currently in private beta at www.getnaked.com and we'd love to come to Web 2.0 and give you a demo ;-)

I am very excited about EBSCOhost's July 2008 interface re-design:

http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969

It might seem kind of stupid, but too many Web 2.0 apps DON'T capture data from proprietary databases that I use all the time. For example, Evernote won't capture anything from Proquest and EBSCO etc. Zotero sucks, and Google notebook is not that good either.

So, I am hoping that more apps will think about academic researchers when they design their products.

So, I would love to go to the conference since I could not afford to go to CHI 2008, although I did an audio presentation.

Thanks!
-jay

- Meebo.com
- Rememberthemilk.com
- craigslist.org
- mint.com
- fuser.com
- My Personal Favorite: etymonline.com

etymonline is a fantastic provider of content related to words. It's funny how web 0.5 it is, in some ways (including its blog not having RSS, or easily being found), but the information on and feel of the site is just beyond phenomenal.

Hope to hear from you soon - Glenn

Great and simple competition, thx. Reading all comments to see if I discorver something new too. 8)

It may be "just" a word processor, but its my favorite app f the moment.

www.zebate.com
this sites which encourages online debates. it tracks users profile and not only it tells your similarity with others but also the difference and it uses this difference to start new conversations.

www.persontation.com
a new tool to create quick marketing pages. Prime target are small business and mom & pop shops who want to have interactive reach

www.wherever.tv
a new box which will stream most the available live streams to your tv. consider it as jump.tv for tv screen.

www.vcvideomatch.com
a cool new site coming along to connect VCs with startups. consider it bloomberg for startup world.

The different
Seeqpod Streaming music.
Quintura.com When i don't feel like using Google.
typolight CMS
Rescue Time.com I just started using this app

I love grandcentral . I happily jump around cell phone providers, and land lines with no problem, screen calls, and listen to voice mail at my desk without even having to pick up my phone. One of the most useful, and innovative apps to come out since google maps.

-Twitter (of course) and Twitterriffic
-socialthing! (much better than FriendFeed IMHO)
-Jott
-reQall
-GrandCentral
-Skype
-Intense Debate (more control for site owners than Disqus)
-Plaxo (it allows me to sync iCal and Google Calendar bidirectionally)
-Fring

That's it, but I'm going to checking out what other readers have suggested.

http://twitter.com/natcparis

Dipity (as in serenDIPITY) is a tool that allows you to create and view timelines in a way that lets you easily discern context between a set of events. Their prime examples are of viewing events and people from your social stream (flickr, yelp, facebook, twitter, etc.), but think of how this tool could be used to compare so many other things:

* compare timelines of popular blogs to see who is breaking stories first
* compare timelines of key quotes of presidential hopefuls to illustrate how they sparring with one another during the campaign
* compare timelines of product releases for Apple and Microsoft of the last 20 years to show how innovation has shifted between the two over the years
* for historical uses, compare timelines of the lives of major religious leaders or political leaders from different countries

And imagine the mashups you will be able to do if an API is released:

* Mashup with maps to show location with events on the timelines
* Mashup with Wesabe or Mint (can you imagine being able to see a timeline of your Starbucks sales against a timeline of your better/worse blog posts)

I cannot think of a more exciting discovery and visualization tool that makes the most of Web 2.0 technologies and Web 2.0 data and presents it in a quite nice interface. Fun and useful!

(Ok, after writing this review, I feel like I have to mention that I have nothing to do with Dipity and have never met these guys. I have had this same timeline idea for an app for a couple of years now, but never worked on it other than a drawer full of sketches. Dipity has executed a good idea well.)

on the infrastructure side, i think that the guys at ringside networks have something going. being able to pull the runnalicious app off of facebook and onto a running store site is really compelling, and i think that that is the direction social media is going in.

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Most of the other stuff out there are for people with too much time at hand, and / or the small community of people who work in the industry. I am still waiting for the new killer app that will actually be both useful and a time saver.
(Facebook was nearly there, but got lost in Zombie oblivion)

Seeing the presentations is far more experiential than walking the expo.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Rarely--and I mean that in the most sincerest and literal of terms--does a website and/or application come along that significantly makes an impact on my day to day life. Evernote, however, has done so completely and effectively.

Prior to Evernote, I was stumbling around with a couple note-taking applications that worked fine if I wanted to copy and paste every little thing into them. I even attempted using Quicksilver with some of them, only to be thwarted by my own--admitted--laziness.

I'm currently using Evernote several dozen times a day to keep track of business notes, important e-mails, relevant articles (mostly from ReadWriteWeb.com, of course :D), and even personal stuff like humorous pictures.

What amazes me most about Evernote is their OCR technology. It is a "secondary" feature, I suppose you could say, however it is truly, truly amazing how they managed to pass up other companies whom are strictly focused to OCR. I can literally take a snapshot of our whiteboard after a meeting, upload it to Evernote, and everything is easily found via search. It's truly amazing.

A recent thing I've been doing is coupling Evernote with Jott.com's services. This allows me to call in ideas/notes while in traffic (I work in Hollywood). When I get to the office, my notes, which would have been lost to the depths of my memory, are there waiting for me.

It's truly an amazing piece of technology, and my favorite web 2.0 application.

kiva.org - isn't it nice to make the world a better place

slideshare.net - simple idea, nicely executed. Hope they don't get crushed by larger competitors but seem to be building a niche.

mahalo.com - I like the way they've built out their service from what seemed like a derivative idea.

mint.com - with a recession on a way, more people may turn to a site like this.

kickfly.com - 3D content meets Web 2.0. Hasn't yet launched, but site is accessible. Disclosure: I work there so I'm biased : )

strutta.com - another new site. I like the idea.

social gaming network - smart play.

Mentioned above:

qik.com - love it

And of course, Google AppEngine (and the brilliant port to AWS) to avoid lock-in.

Thanks everyone for the great response! Sadly, there can only be 2 winners. They were selected at random, using a cool web app called Random.org. The winners are: comment #79, James Levy, and #93, Jamie Stephens.

Feel free to continue noting your fave apps!

regards,
Richard
Editor, ReadWriteWeb

video - definatley http://www.youtube.com is a winner for me

semantic apps - http://www.twine.com lot work still to do, but i think it's cool

social news - http://www.digg.com, no comments :)

professional networking - http://www.linkedin.com

photos - http://www.flickr.com

organization and management - http://www.comindwork, our own startup

music - http://www.last.fm

social networking + mobile - for http://www.twitter.com is a clear winner

maps - didn;t find anything better then google maps yet

online RSS - google reader does the job for me

blogs info - technorati.com

and favourite blog - RWW of course :)

And thank you, but i don't need an invitatio :)

BTW, why does the registration to this conference cost close to $2K?! Isn't that a bit obscene?