ReadWriteWeb has 2 tickets to next week's Web 2.0 Expo to give away, courtesy of Technorati. These are full conference passes, worth $1,895 each, so they will get you into every workshop and conference session. To be in with a chance to win one of these passes, all you have to do is enter a comment below telling us what web 2.0 apps most excite you currently.
You can list just one app, or a bunch. And it can be alpha, beta, or (gasp!) a 1.0 release. We're just curious what's new that we haven't yet discovered ;-) The winning 2 comments will be chosen at random by the RWW editor.
Thanks Technorati for the free passes for 2 lucky RWW readers. Note: if you can't make it to the conference you can still leave a comment with your fave app(s), but please add a note that you can't attend - so that we can give the tickets to 2 people who can make it.
The passes include:
- all sessions (Wed - Fri)
- workshops on Tues, April 22
- all keynote and plenary presentations
- the Expo and all events held in the Expo
- all conference networking events
- Web2Open
- Continental Breakfast & Lunch (Tues - Fri)
UPDATE: we've had a tremendous response to this competition. The winners have now been announced and the competition is closed. But you can of course continue to leave comments noting your fave web apps! Thanks everyone for participating.
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I would love to attend web 2.0, I work for a startup Kosmix and this would be great avenue for me to catch up on whats going in this world. My favorite web 2.0 app is FriendFeed. I think its a very innovative and effective to keep updated with friends. Its provides a unique way to stay upto date with your social network.
Abhishek
Posted by: Abhishek Gattani | April 16, 2008 11:02 PMI just got done with COFES 08 and would be very interested in attending. I've been in the web industry for 9 years and now have entered into application space but am focused on blending the two.
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,
Posted by: Dallas S. Beddingfield | April 16, 2008 11:38 PMDallas
linkedin.com/in/dallasbeddingfield
Web 2.0!
Buzzword rocks. I never really got into the whole Google Docs thing, but there's that flashy appeal with Buzzword -- very slick and awesome.
Posted by: Robert Brambley | April 16, 2008 11:42 PM1. Twhirl.com
2. Locle.com
3. viewdle.com
4. Taaz.com
5. SMSguru.de
Posted by: David Rosenblum | April 16, 2008 11:47 PMhttp://www.RescueTime.com is quite ingenious. I've been getting into it for couple weeks now and it's impressive.
Posted by: Joseph | April 16, 2008 11:56 PMI am going with disqus and toluu for my picks!
Posted by: (jeff)isageek | April 16, 2008 11:58 PMIm the founder of Yindy, an Indie Television initiative that is under development and has a very limited budget for now, thats why I can't attend this event even when I'd love to. My favorite web 2.0 app is definitely facebook, I love the facebook platform and I think they're doing a really great job letting all the developers out there collaborate in order to bring a much more useful social network!
Posted by: Ruben | April 17, 2008 12:00 AMMy favorite web 2.0 apps:
1) twhirl.com
2) remember the milk
Greetings from a rainy and cold Hamburg in Germany ....
Bastian!
Posted by: Bastian Scherbeck | April 17, 2008 12:26 AMAggregation is the key. I've registered to some 500 Web 2.0 sites - how to communicate on those efficiently, that's the problem to solve. FriendFeed and Ping.fm are starting with status update synchronization. Now if somebody could add that to desktop apps also, such as Windows Live Messenger!
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!
Posted by: Juhani Polkko | April 17, 2008 12:28 AMFlickr.com - my all time favorite
Wikipedia - amazing concept
Posted by: Kevin Leong | April 17, 2008 12:36 AMI think next big thing will happen in merging social applications and investing space, altough I don't see a winner in this space.
Posted by: Uroš Jurglič | April 17, 2008 12:43 AMEDIT: ...yet.
Posted by: Uroš Jurglič | April 17, 2008 12:44 AMI'd love to attend too, I'm a student working on a startup in my spare time and really can't afford events like this.
One startup I really like is Jajah which I think has amazing potential for companies. Another would be RescueTime which has amazing utility.
Posted by: Alex Kaminski | April 17, 2008 12:44 AMOne of my favorites is Linkedin.
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...
Posted by: Mircea | April 17, 2008 12:53 AMWeb 2.0 online podcasts.
Also news sites like shoutwire and digg.
Posted by: David | April 17, 2008 12:57 AMHey there.
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.
Posted by: Matt | April 17, 2008 1:06 AMThe apps that I am anticipating are...
SilverbackApp.com
GetSignoff.com
But the apps that I love are...
BaseCamp
Posted by: Adam Kirkwood | April 17, 2008 1:31 AMLast.FM
Don't Forget the Milk
Have you heard about jaanix? It's the future of social news - lets you "tune in" to what's important to you in real time.
Posted by: Joe | April 17, 2008 1:45 AMAt the moment i´m realy interested in apps like brainfloor.com. This Austria apps f. e. gives you the possibility to exchange business ideas in a very interesting, crowdsourcing way.
Posted by: frank_tentler | April 17, 2008 2:20 AMHi,
I use on daily basic mostly two web2.0 apps:
Posted by: Dominik Juszczyk | April 17, 2008 2:32 AM- 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 :
How about the Web 2.0 apps which let you view {and annotate} PDF / Word documents in the browser without waiting for download and a heavyweight application / plugin to startup - like scribd, edocr (which use Flash), and A.nnotate (which doesn't) - can't make it to the web2 conf though :(
Posted by: Fred Howell | April 17, 2008 2:33 AMI'm having a lot of fun with voicethread. I also love xtimeline, and it's not just because I'm one of the Co-Founders. In the year dubbed as "information overload", I think web apps that help synthesize information and data are increasingly needed.
Posted by: Lauren | April 17, 2008 2:56 AMThe two 2.0 apps most excite me currently...
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.
Posted by: RBA | April 17, 2008 3:11 AMGreat work.
Posted by: Gifts | April 17, 2008 3:15 AMFrom http://www.puneonlinemall.com
At the moment i like most:
1. Google Reader (daily use on web and mobile)
Posted by: Kristian Rabe | April 17, 2008 3:24 AM2. zivity (without looking at the busines model :-))
3. xobni (for Outlook)
Hey all =)
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-
Posted by: Xavier.P | April 17, 2008 3:51 AMDoes voting for yourself count?
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
Posted by: andraz | April 17, 2008 4:19 AMandraz
Most interesting I think are the one's being developed for the mobile space. Loopt, Brightkite, and a few others, but there's a catch. I don't think any of them are revolutionary in and of themselves.
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.
Posted by: James | April 17, 2008 5:06 AMI'm really excited about Isolatr - http://isolatr.com/
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.
Posted by: Pedro | April 17, 2008 5:13 AMMy favorite web2.0 technology at this point in time is anything with social tagging -- whether it be del.icio.us, flickr, or librarything. I'm a librarian and i find user-generated metadata to be a huge step forward in helping students find what they are looking for.
Posted by: Amy Dumouchel | April 17, 2008 5:43 AMThinking about what RBA (comment No.23) calls apps that can ""revolutionize the markets they address in a *very big way*"" I would go with http://www.picnik.com. As far as I concerned, this guys have already revolutionize the image editing tool business (online or desktop based)
Of course, we are also pretty exited about what we have in the oven at our own start up....
Posted by: jon | April 17, 2008 5:46 AMZillow, Mixx, Geni
Posted by: Frank M | April 17, 2008 5:49 AMBest web 2.0 apps:
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.
Posted by: Brent | April 17, 2008 5:53 AMThe two applications that I would say epitomize "Web 2.0" are Google Docs and Twitter--they both connect people and enable collaboration beyond that which existed before these services.
Posted by: Jason | April 17, 2008 5:53 AMI would love to attend the Web 2.0 Expo!
My current favorites, in no particular order, are:
Posted by: Jen Robinson | April 17, 2008 5:53 AM* last.FM
* BackPack
* NetVibes
* Tumblr
* and, I guess, Facebook
My favorites are everything BUT: Twitter, Facebook or FriendFeed
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.
Posted by: Jason | April 17, 2008 6:17 AMBuzzword!
Twhirl!
Both very slick appealing UI.
Posted by: LeRoy | April 17, 2008 6:18 AMBesides my own startup, blist, I like (in no particular order), LiquidPlanner, SproutBuilder, SlideRocket, Slideshare.net and Capzules.
Posted by: Kevin Merritt | April 17, 2008 6:26 AMI get excited by too many web 2.0 apps and end up spending a lot of time on new stuff that ends up interesting but not very useful. However, there is one app that I use every day. That app is Diigo (www.diigo.com).
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.
Posted by: Howard Keziah | April 17, 2008 6:34 AMWhile the consumer stuff is fun, I want to give a shoutout to some of our Austin, TX friends that are using web 2.0 to deliver some great affordable business apps:
Evapt
Posted by: Rebecca | April 17, 2008 6:43 AMFiveRuns
Itzbig (check out their new VayCay promotion on Facebook)
SolarWinds
Spiceworks
and of course our very own Mumboe!
I personally like Songza http://www.songza.com
Posted by: Yakov | April 17, 2008 6:52 AMTo avoid the Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm parade, I'm also stoked about:
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
Posted by: Q dub | April 17, 2008 7:01 AMThey 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
Oh, and can't attend conference. Why the hell is it in the middle of the week?
Posted by: Q dub | April 17, 2008 7:02 AMWell, I've just been reading all those comments and we could all quote dozens of apps. But I'll always get back to FlickR and NetVibes. The two best for me. Classic but so good.
Posted by: Francois | April 17, 2008 7:15 AMOkay, first off, I tried to create an account just to post on this entry but it's not letting me sign in. Anyhow, attending the Web 2.0 conference would be incredible.
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.
Posted by: Brian | April 17, 2008 7:16 AMMy favorite web 2.0 apps. at the moment are those who touch any of the following: context-aware (gps/mobile), leverage the semantic web, etc.
So my official top 2 for now:
1. Freebase
2. Google Maps
Plz pick me !
Posted by: Olivier Lalonde | April 17, 2008 7:25 AMI would love to attend.
Basecamp is far and away my favorite.
Posted by: Peter Flick | April 17, 2008 7:33 AMThe three coolest things (in order) in the new web world are:
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.
Posted by: Raj | April 17, 2008 7:40 AMTimeXchange.net
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.
Posted by: Joe | April 17, 2008 7:42 AMhttp://www.squidnote.com
Great group greeting site. Leave a pledge for Mother Earth here...
http://www.squidnote.com/c/dXvQdj17MEC
Posted by: Richard | April 17, 2008 7:47 AMI love del.icio.us because it lets me access my favorite sites from any browser.
Posted by: Partha | April 17, 2008 7:51 AMFriendFeed exemplifies the best aspects of Web 2.0.
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.
Posted by: John Attebury | April 17, 2008 7:56 AMTimeBridge.com - there have been many calender apps but you always end up negotiating the exact meeting time - TimeBridge handles that negotiation for you - quickly and easily.
Posted by: Philip Lipetz | April 17, 2008 7:57 AMThere are so many interesting things popping up daily, but two standby sites I love are Zillow and Redfin, (I used to work for a real estate .com, so I may find these more interesting than others). Also, sites that are pushing the envelope in regards to interaction and data collaboration. A recent post about http://www.exitreality.com was a great example of work that is pushing the boundaries of how users interact with the site environment and the data available.
Posted by: Karl Norsen | April 17, 2008 8:09 AMMine is twitter, because of the power of the developer community behind it.
Seeing a simple concept take off like it has is inspiring.
Posted by: Noah Everett | April 17, 2008 8:13 AMZebtab just launched the Man Utd football channel on their aggregated desktop gadget - so thats our fav so far.
Posted by: Damon Oldcorn | April 17, 2008 8:16 AMhttp://www.manutd.zebtab.com
My favorites are the music tools that seem as though no one is using them: SeeqPod and Songza.
Posted by: Hung | April 17, 2008 8:17 AM1 - Picnik - saved my butt a few times when photoshop wasn't available remotely.
Posted by: Jason Murphy | April 17, 2008 8:17 AM2 - KeywordSpy - godfather of competitive data.
3 - Twhirl - Twitter haphazardly.
4 - Gijit - 100 words + my ADD = Alice in Wonderland all over again
5 - Netvibes - old standby, can't live without it.
6 - Meebo - #1 all time favorite web app. Meebo FTW!
7 - Scribd - lots of noise, but some extremely valuable signals there.
8 - bumptop - can't wait, want it now!
9 - fisheye plugin for Firefox - looking good, Flickr feed!
10 - popurls - one stop shop.
I would have to say twitter. It's helped me stay in touch with friends, make new ones, and stay apprised of tech news. I still love flickr though.
Posted by: Matthew Eber | April 17, 2008 8:25 AMGoogle Reader and Remember the Milk.
Posted by: Peter Hoven | April 17, 2008 8:29 AMI represent Equals, Inc. (www.equals.com) and am a big fan of their Facebook application, Party Line. Party Line is a fun, easy-to-use application that enables users to set up instant group phone calls with friends. Party Line allows up to five people to talk together without the need for dial-ins or passcodes. Instead of having to call multiple people at different numbers, you can now call one number (877 4-BUZZME), or with one click of the mouse on Facebook, be connected live with your friends.
Posted by: Erin | April 17, 2008 8:36 AMMy Fav 5 online apps:
1. Flickr
2. YouTube
3. Pownce
4. Picnik
5. Google Apps
My Fav 5 OS X web desiging apps
1. Transmit
Posted by: Mike Brisk | April 17, 2008 8:42 AM2. CSSEdit
3. Photoshop
4. Firefox 3
5. Textedit
I would be thrilled to attend Web 2.0 next week. Absolutely thrilled! I am a student in the Cupertino area and can take eco-friendly PUBLIC transportation straight up to San Francisco!
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
Posted by: Laura | April 17, 2008 8:44 AMIt would be great if you'd make it possible to visit the web2.0 conference. My favorite web2.0 apllication currently is represented by facebook's fanpages. I think these fanpages offer an easy possibility to organize crm for small and midsized businesses. Furthermore the fanpage offers forums, photogalleries etc. with a good usability ...
Best regards, Da. Am.
Posted by: Daniel Amer | April 17, 2008 8:45 AMI would love to go. My favorite app is www.thefreedictionary.com. I like to customization of the home page and the content is top-notch!
If you ever need a dictionary -- give it a shot.
Posted by: steve | April 17, 2008 8:56 AMThe Web2.0 Expo just announced their Launch Pad competition. My personal favorite from the list of six is TradeVibes, which is a Web2.0 take on using the community to find and vote on cool startups.
http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/content/launchpad
Posted by: Daniel | April 17, 2008 9:06 AMhttp://www.tradevibes.com
My 2 favorite Web 2.0 APps are:
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?
Posted by: Chris | April 17, 2008 9:18 AM2. Wikinvest- a fascinating experiment that is seeking to apply complex, adaptive systems theory to financial markets.
MinutesNotice (facebook app)
Posted by: kayvaan | April 17, 2008 9:31 AMflickr
soocial
last.fm
vimeo
though I haven't looked into yet, the apps for aggregating and searching twitter excite me, such as friendfeed, alert thingy and twhirl to name a few.
Posted by: csalomonlee | April 17, 2008 9:36 AMI think pandora/last.fm style music discovery and rating sites are great. With FM radio the way it is, it's the only way I find new music.
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.
Posted by: Matt | April 17, 2008 9:37 AMBeen doing a lot with Twitter lately and I've loved all the related tools you've provided here on ReadWriteWeb. These are my two favorites at the moment:
http://www.tweetscan.com/
http://www.alphatwitter.com/
Oh, and then happy with the return of ReadBurner (http://www.readburner.com/)
Posted by: Kenley Neufeld | April 17, 2008 9:50 AMI'm voting for ourselves, Naked. We're building an open messaging platform for your nearest and dearest, rather than all the random friends and foe that you have on other SN's and SM's.
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 ;-)
Posted by: James Salmon | April 17, 2008 9:52 AMI'm a big fan of Utterz right now!
Posted by: Melissa Burns | April 17, 2008 9:53 AMgrandcentral. not web 2.0 or anything but why label anything and everything web 2.0? its a cool and innovative look at voice based communication, and i love it.
Posted by: Arvind Ashok | April 17, 2008 9:58 AMThis might sound boring, but I am a Ph.D. student, and I spend lots of time using databases like Proquest and EBSCOhost.
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!
Posted by: Jay | April 17, 2008 10:01 AM-jay
Great contest idea guys!
- 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
Posted by: Glenn.Isaac | April 17, 2008 10:20 AMtwitter.com
tumblr.com
getdropbox
weheartit.com
reader.google.com
del.icio.us
craigslist.com
thesixtyone.com
Great and simple competition, thx. Reading all comments to see if I discorver something new too. 8)
Posted by: Nando | April 17, 2008 10:27 AMwww.createworkspace.com
Posted by: obaid | April 17, 2008 10:31 AMwww.scrybe.com
No matter how silly it may seem, Google Docs is my favorite app at the moment. I'm using it for all kinds of note-taking, and it's replaced Gmail as my nerve center. I've gotten it to work with Jott, and I'm hoping/waiting for better integration with other Google products.
It may be "just" a word processor, but its my favorite app f the moment.
Posted by: James Levy | April 17, 2008 10:41 AMwww.ourlikes.com
fun and new way to find online dates.use image rankings to match users.
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
Posted by: Haris Khan | April 17, 2008 10:52 AMa cool new site coming along to connect VCs with startups. consider it bloomberg for startup world.
The standard:
Last.FM
Google Reader
Tumblr
stumbleupon
The different
Posted by: Steven Smethurst | April 17, 2008 11:08 AMSeeqpod Streaming music.
Quintura.com When i don't feel like using Google.
typolight CMS
Rescue Time.com I just started using this app
friendfeed.com
Posted by: dtom | April 17, 2008 11:17 AMtwitter! keep finding ways to use it
Posted by: juan | April 17, 2008 11:18 AMGottaGotta.com is a super simple web navigation system.
Posted by: John | April 17, 2008 11:23 AM1. Zemanta
Posted by: veritas | April 17, 2008 11:28 AM2. Soocial
3. Apture
4. Topspin Media
5. Amie St.
You can usually tell how valuable a service is by how much you miss it when it doesn't work. For me, that one service is the shortcuts feature of OpenDNS.
Posted by: Josh Fraser | April 17, 2008 11:35 AMAlthough I feel a lot of the sites people are submitting don't really define web 2.0 , and are really traditional websites... but if we are considering all websites that are being released as of the last two years to current as web 2.0
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.
Posted by: cease | April 17, 2008 11:42 AMI probably haven't uncovered any new or buzz-worthy apps here, but I kind of like:
-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.
Posted by: Scott K | April 17, 2008 11:59 AMFor me, Flickr and anything from Google are great examples of what Web 2.0 can offer.
Posted by: Avinash Meetoo | April 17, 2008 12:31 PMThis is such a good thread! When the comments reach 100, we'll pick the 2 winners.
Posted by: Richard MacManusThe next killer application, is the app which will use the power that millions of online users have, as to make World a better place to live. I have sth cool in mind but unfortunately i cant present it right now...Although if i go to the conference and get funded i will probably change the way we communicate online!!Good luck to the winners!
Posted by: Johnyzar | April 17, 2008 1:15 PMI'm currently developping http://www.twitterfav.com on my own. I think that says it all on the app I'm most addicted to :-)
http://twitter.com/natcparis
Posted by: NatC | April 17, 2008 1:19 PMThe Web 2.0 site that excites me the most, but has gotten little press is Dipity.
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.)
Posted by: Jamie Stephens | April 17, 2008 1:28 PMon the consumer facing side, i haven't seen a more exciting app than Aviary's (http://a.viary.com) suite of browser-based image editing/creation tools in a LONG LONG time. and it is my job to find new and exciting apps.
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.
Posted by: jason yeh | April 17, 2008 1:38 PMI have to go with local discovery (and advertising): whrrl.com. Hasn't caught the crazy hype wave yet, but as soon as mobile devices and carriers stop sucking connected mobile local stuff will be big and these guys are already doing it.
Posted by: Jared R. | April 17, 2008 1:52 PMFriendFeed! http://friendfeed.com/
Posted by: Pat | April 17, 2008 2:03 PMI find the basic apps still the most usefil:
GMail
Google Reader
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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.
Posted by: John Vega | April 17, 2008 2:20 PM(Facebook was nearly there, but got lost in Zombie oblivion)
I want to go as a real registrant this year. I went to the EXPO last year and was blown away by the power of Web 2.0. I have an extensive direct response background and Web 2.0 is so powerful in analyzing what is exactly working (generating interest and money/revenue) on a web site. The information available is what used to take me and an IT staff to sift and massage is now available weekly. What a powerful tool.
Seeing the presentations is far more experiential than walking the expo.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Posted by: Gail Rubino | April 17, 2008 2:28 PMCurrently, my favorite web 2.0 app is Evernote.
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.
Posted by: Shaun Sanders | April 17, 2008 2:48 PMI love Qik - http://qik.com and quite like http://loopt.com
Posted by: Paul Walsh | April 17, 2008 2:59 PMWebex is only getting better!
Posted by: Michael Pao | April 17, 2008 4:03 PMi don't know much about web 2.0 but i'm excited about different music applications.
Posted by: Clayton Davis | April 17, 2008 4:44 PMGoogle Reader has really speeded up my news scanning. Delicious for storing all the new info.
Posted by: Alvin Wang | April 17, 2008 4:49 PMSo many great sites to choose from - here's some suggestions off the top of my head that haven't been mentioned (from my quick glance through the list).
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.
Posted by: Joel Fan | April 17, 2008 5:46 PMAddendum to above- I forgot to mention Twine. It is really worth checking out. Or does that count as a Web 3.0 app? :) And I like Pownce also.
Posted by: Joel Fan | April 17, 2008 6:02 PMI'm excited about the potential for www.vendorrate.com, a new site for users and buyers of IT and telecom services and equipment to rate vendors on ten key performance indicators. Ratings are quantifiable yet anonymous. This is a valuable sales tool for vendors and a money-saving due diligence engine for buyers.
Posted by: Duffy Jennings | April 17, 2008 7:23 PMTwitter is the one I use the most. It's my virtual watercooler for keeping up with my fellow Mac geeks between Macworld Expos. It's helped me keep up with people I know and get to know new folks who will be like old pals by the time Macworld 2009 rolls around.
Posted by: Jean MacDonald | April 17, 2008 8:19 PMSpotJots.com - because we enjoy working on it.
Posted by: Chris | April 17, 2008 8:55 PMhttp://dealoco.com
Posted by: Garrett Gee | April 17, 2008 9:11 PMHi all,
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,
Posted by: Richard MacManusRichard
Editor, ReadWriteWeb
I don't know where to start :) I'll give some of my favourites in different categories:
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 :)
Posted by: Godzhesas | April 17, 2008 10:41 PMI don't think there's any marketing guys left who haven't commented :)
Posted by: Joseph | April 18, 2008 12:40 AMYouTube.com
BTW, why does the registration to this conference cost close to $2K?! Isn't that a bit obscene?
Posted by: John Thompson | April 19, 2008 10:09 AM