Best Web Company in 2007: Facebook, Google, Apple Lead The Pack
Written by Richard MacManus / July 11, 2007 6:05 PM
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Our poll this week asks: Which Web company impressed you the most over the first half of 2007? Mid-week, Facebook has a handy lead over Google. Facebook has 34% of the vote, with Google second on 27%. Apple is third with 15%, probably reflecting the recent iPhone launch. Note that we added Adobe and Mozilla after about 100 votes, so the others got a bit of a head start.
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For me, it's meboo and upcoming, both are not listed in the poll.
Posted by: Rich.List | July 11, 2007 6:43 PM
Pageflakes.com
Posted by: Walter | July 11, 2007 8:10 PM
i think google
Posted by: gallonwang | July 11, 2007 10:04 PM
While Facebook has been an incredibly impressive service and is certainly one of the most impressive websites to date, I have chosen 'Other' for the simple reason that Facebook impressed me a long time ago, and has never ceased. For 2007, however, I found Newsvine's new site to be the most impressive move. It's interactive nature, and easy navigation of millions of news items is very impressive indeed. The drag-and-drop content boxes adds a little cleverness to the mix, and the fact that there is actually readable content among the usual web-banter is enough to make it the most impressive service I've seen online in 2007!
Posted by: Zach Beauvais | July 12, 2007 3:01 AM
How could you even consider apple as a webco ?? comparing apple with google or facebook doesnt make any sense...
Posted by: Jermaine | July 12, 2007 5:12 AM
C'mon Richard,
How do you even put Apple on this list? Launching the iPhone makes it a web company??? You tech bloggers should stop worshiping Google and Apple. It definitely puts a kink on your credibility.
Posted by: Sheeni | July 12, 2007 7:11 AM
Podshow and Spock
Posted by: Prolific Programmer | July 12, 2007 2:50 PM
I never thought the day would come when I had to defend Apple ;-)
Surely Apple is just as much a Web company as the others - iPod/iTunes is probably the best example yet of desktop/Web integration. The iPhone too is hugely innovative in terms of enabling web apps to run on it -- it's arguably the best web platform yet for mobile (altho Opera for one has done a lot of great stuff in that regard).
I'm not saying Apple is *only* a web company - obviously it is probably more involved in the hardware side of things. But it certainly has contributed a lot of great things to the web, so that makes it a web company in my mind.
What do others think?
Posted by: Richard MacManus | July 12, 2007 6:07 PM
No doubt Google has been an undoubtable leader
Posted by: Gurpreet Singh Modi | July 13, 2007 5:43 AM