Competition: Win a Free Pass to Web 2.0 Expo
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 PM
I 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,
Dallas
linkedin.com/in/dallasbeddingfield
Posted by: Dallas S. Beddingfield | April 16, 2008 11:38 PM
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 PM
1. Twhirl.com
2. Locle.com
3. viewdle.com
4. Taaz.com
5. SMSguru.de
Posted by: David Rosenblum | April 16, 2008 11:47 PM
http://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 PM
I am going with disqus and toluu for my picks!
Posted by: (jeff)isageek | April 16, 2008 11:58 PM
Im 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 AM
My 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 AM
Aggregation 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 AM
Flickr.com - my all time favorite
Wikipedia - amazing concept
Posted by: Kevin Leong | April 17, 2008 12:36 AM
I 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 AM
EDIT: ...yet.
Posted by: Uroš Jurglič | April 17, 2008 12:44 AM
I'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 AM
One 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 AM
Web 2.0 online podcasts.
Also news sites like shoutwire and digg.
Posted by: David | April 17, 2008 12:57 AM
Hey 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 AM
The apps that I am anticipating are...
SilverbackApp.com
GetSignoff.com
But the apps that I love are...
BaseCamp
Last.FM
Don't Forget the Milk
Posted by: Adam Kirkwood | April 17, 2008 1:31 AM
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 AM
At 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 AM
Hi,
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 :
Posted by: Dominik Juszczyk | April 17, 2008 2:32 AM
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 AM
I'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 AM
The 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 AM
Great work.
From http://www.puneonlinemall.com
Posted by: Gifts | April 17, 2008 3:15 AM
At the moment i like most:
1. Google Reader (daily use on web and mobile)
2. zivity (without looking at the busines model :-))
3. xobni (for Outlook)
Posted by: Kristian Rabe | April 17, 2008 3:24 AM
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 AM
Does 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
andraz
Posted by: andraz | April 17, 2008 4:19 AM
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 AM
I'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 AM
My 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 AM
Thinking 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 AM
Zillow, Mixx, Geni
Posted by: Frank M | April 17, 2008 5:49 AM
Best 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 AM
The 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 AM
I would love to attend the Web 2.0 Expo!
My current favorites, in no particular order, are:
* last.FM
* BackPack
* NetVibes
* Tumblr
* and, I guess, Facebook
Posted by: Jen Robinson | April 17, 2008 5:53 AM
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 AM
Buzzword!
Twhirl!
Both very slick appealing UI.
Posted by: LeRoy | April 17, 2008 6:18 AM
Besides 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 AM
I 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 AM
While 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
FiveRuns
Itzbig (check out their new VayCay promotion on Facebook)
SolarWinds
Spiceworks
and of course our very own Mumboe!
Posted by: Rebecca | April 17, 2008 6:43 AM
I personally like Songza http://www.songza.com
Posted by: Yakov | April 17, 2008 6:52 AM
To 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
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
Posted by: Q dub | April 17, 2008 7:01 AM
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 AM
Well, 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 AM
Okay, 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 AM
My 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 AM
I would love to attend.
Basecamp is far and away my favorite.
Posted by: Peter Flick | April 17, 2008 7:33 AM
The 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 AM
TimeXchange.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 AM
http://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 AM
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