As a Web (2.0) consultant and analyst (about me), I track a variety of market segments and products. Luckily for me, nowadays I don't have to do as much grunt work on gathering high level product data as I used to. There are a plethora of product lists and data about web 2.0 companies on the Web now, unlike 12-18 months ago when I had to track it all down myself. Of course my job as a researcher and analyst is to go much deeper than the high level product data - I then need to turn it into practical insights, recommendations, knowledge, etc.
Anyway here is (in no particular order) a list of the web 2.0 lists and other helpful product data that I've found on the Web. I encourage you to add other sources in the comments.
I'm sure there are more web 2.0 lists out there which I've forgotten to mention, so please add in the comments and I'll update this post as they come in.
Update 7 May 06: Added more lists based on comments. Will do more updates as required.
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"Would love some high level categorization wrapped around all the reviews."
So would I!
Posted by: Pete Cashmore | May 5, 2006 3:41 PM[Plugg start]Well... in 10 days there will be the site http://web2.0interact.com/.
Posted by: Jon Gretar | May 5, 2006 4:36 PMIt will be nothing great at first but the new thing it will provide is that along with tags there will be listed the services the sites provide. For example does the site import or export RSS feeds? Can it directly connect to the MovableType API? Thus showing how the sites can interact with each other. Need a calendar site the exports iCal data? Just look up the iCal service.[Plugg ends] ;)
"Web 2.0", shurely a mishtake editor? :-)
Great list of resources, thanks for sharing it
Posted by: Mike | May 5, 2006 8:30 PMHmm, you forgot the museum of modern betas.
http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/
Posted by: George | MonthlyDollar.com | May 5, 2006 8:42 PMProbably because I've never been able to access museum of modern betas - one of those odd domain issues. I'll add it though.
Mike, just going with the flow :-)
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 5, 2006 8:53 PMRichard,
Thank you for including Categoriz.com as part of your list. We had just re-vamped our website. Please let me know what you think.
John
Posted by: John Diep | May 5, 2006 8:57 PMToo many to mention lol
http://del.icio.us/BillyG/Web2.0
My blog (http://billy-girlardo.com/WP/) has become one big, fat tag-roll from my del.icio.us account.
If I ever took the time to post the stories as I get them, I'd prolly have visits out the roof, but then I wouldn't be able to get as many stories... guess it's all about priorities (I don't have any advertising anyway lol). As is, I get an awesome Mindmap and SQL DB out of it all for myself which is my bottom line anyway. Woops, sorry... I'm sure you'll find some stuff int here though, even some of your own lol. Peace. I'm going to sleep. G/N.
Posted by: BillyG | May 5, 2006 11:05 PMGreat job Richard pulling this together.
Posted by: Frank Gruber | May 6, 2006 8:15 AMI've got a web2.0 list of lists happening here:
Posted by: John Tropea | May 6, 2006 8:43 AMhttp://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/05/06/
lists-lists-lists-web2o-lists-lists-lists/
Hi Richard,
There's a very good googlemap of web2.0 companies at
Posted by: walter | May 6, 2006 1:19 PMhttp://www.fourio.com/web20map/
Richard,
over 1,900 web 2.0 companies can be found here:
http://openbc.com/net/everything2.0
Posted by: http://leewilkins.com.com | May 7, 2006 4:02 PMThe Openbc link re-directed to their homepage. Looks like you have to register to view it??
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 7, 2006 4:14 PMIf you are interested in korean web2.0 activities, there is http://koreacrunch.com
Posted by: Channy | May 7, 2006 11:18 PMGreat list of lists. This'll keep me busy! By the way, I just signed up for Betafy to automatically enroll me in a lot of new Web 2.0 offerings. That should save me some time! Right now I've got several dozen Web 2.0 sites bookmarked that I need to go check out. The crazy names alone already have me head spinning.
Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | May 8, 2006 6:07 AMThanks a lot for your listing!
Posted by: sirjoe | May 8, 2006 8:01 AMI'm creating an Italian list of web2.0 ressources, and your page was a great starting point!
S:
Great job! Big hands for your efforts.
Thanks a lot.
www.fortytwo.co.kr/directory2
is the list I am working on
Posted by: Prak | May 8, 2006 12:27 PMI'm just starting to look into Web 2.0 and am gathering some resources so thanks for this great list of lists!
Posted by: Andy | May 8, 2006 12:55 PMThanks for this list...so much Web 2.0 stuff out there that it's getting almost impossible to uncover valid lists for Web 2.0 design tools, methodologies for designing Web 2.0 sites, and the dotcom 2.0. I wrote an interesting article here, and I will make sure to update it and send it back this way.
http://briansolis.blogspot.com/2006/04/
Posted by: Brian Solis | May 8, 2006 2:28 PMweb-20-internet-20-dotcom-20.html
Hey you missed out swapthing.com I have not used thier service but I liked thier idea.
Posted by: Sarfaraz | May 8, 2006 10:32 PMhttp://www.web2null.de
Posted by: Greg | May 9, 2006 6:38 AMdefinitively a web 2.0 list (in german)
Great work with the long list, Richard!!
"well-designed, well categorized and feature rich web 2.0 company/product resource; eats the 2.0 dogfood, with user reviews and ratings, etc."
Thanks for the flattering description!
Posted by: Romasha | May 10, 2006 2:19 AMI cannot wait until this next bubble bursts and you people have to stop using the "web 2.0" over hyped buzzword. It's sickening to see people who, normally should know what they are talking about, kicking around this term like it actually means something. It's not a technology, it's not a standard, there's no IETF or W3C working group writing up the white paper for "web 2.0".
I'm not saying some of you are not doing cool things with your web sites. But come on people, they are just web sites! Better than previous designs perhaps, but still WEB SITES! I have yet to see any one group actually agree on a true deffinition for "web 2.0". It's a vapor concept, marketing drivel, made up of loosely tied together ideas.
Why don't you all get back to coding your kick ass web sites and stop this whole religious zealot "web 2.0" campaigning? Thanx!
-A Fellow Coder-
Posted by: Anonymous App Coder | May 12, 2006 6:26 PMCalm down Anonymous App Coder, it's just a catchphrase.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 13, 2006 12:09 AM