Top Polish Web 2.0 Apps (including Coke's 43Things!)
This has turned into a very enjoyable series, profiling web products being built all over the world! The latest list is for Poland, courtesy of Sebastian Kwiecien - who runs a blog at web20.pl. Sebastian sent me a very detailed list of Polish web apps, including information about an intriguing social network integrated into Coca-Cola's Polish website. More on that in a moment.
Lots of Digg Clones
First off, Poland has a lot of Digg clones! wykop.pl gets the most traffic and Sebastian says it's probably the most popular web 2.0 site in Poland.
The other digg clones are: linkologia.pl, pr.org.pl, etapia.pl, linkr.pl.
Coca-Cola Poland's version of 43Things.com
http://cocacola.pl/UdaSie/ is a 43things.com clone prepared for Coca-Cola, which launched recently. It's a fully-featured social network integrated into Coca-Cola's Polish website. Now this one caught my eye, because to my knowledge no major commercial website in the US has integrated anything like 43things into its site.
It's a very well designed website, using the Coca-Cola global web imagery. Here's the frontpage - on the left (green) you have "what do you want to achieve" (actually "what you desire" or in polish "czego pragniesz"); and on the right (yellow) is "what you've achieved" (in polish "co ci sie juz udalo"). So you can share your goals and achievements with the community...
Here's the lower half of the homepage, a giant tag cloud:
The next screenshot shows a post. Sebastian says when you post information about what you've achieved or want to achieve, there is a comments box below the achievement and also community avatars on the right.
This is very very cool! Does anyone know of any major commercial websites elsewhere in the world that integrate a social network like this?
Other Polish Web Apps
Another interesting one is filmweb.pl, a popular community website for movie fans. Sebastian told me it recently had a Netscape-like transformation from old-style film portal to more 2.0 features (like blogs, user-contributed content features and so on).
Finally here are other categories of sites in the Polish web 2.0 world:
- fotosik.pl - photo sharing place (there's also slajd.net coming)
- biznes.net, goldenline.pl, ogniwo.net - business networking sites like linkedin.com
- grono.net, spinacz.pl - teenager social networking sites (grono.net claims to have 800,000 users!)
- blox.pl, bloog.pl, blog.pl - polish blogging sites (the most important are those connected with top polish portals)
- wiadomosci24.pl, ithink.pl - citizen journalism sites
- fotosik.pl, patrz.pl - photo/video hosting/sharing site (also streemo.pl is coming soon - it is currently in alpha)
- pytamy.pl - an askeet.com implementation (an answers site)
- wrocek.pl, miejsce.info - google maps mashups
- podaj.net - book exchange website
- 10przykazan.com, blogfrog.pl - blog aggregators (there are such functionalities in trendomierz.pl too)
Summary
Sebastian told me that Polish web20 sites are mainly clones and that there's few that are really unique. But he says the web 2.0 market is starting to grow in Poland and he hopes to see some more original sites soon. In June there was a conference called "Welcome Web 2.0 to Poland", so the interest and passion is obviously there.
I want to thank Sebastian for all the info he gave me for this post! I learned a lot from this discussion.
Once again, I'd love to get similar info about other international markets - so contact me [readwriteweb AT gmail.com] if you'd like to contribute your country's top web apps. I'd particularly like to know more about the Asian markets (China, Japan, Korea, etc).
See also: Top German web apps; Top Dutch web apps.
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I am doing a little research on this at the moment. In Japan I found the following two "social networking" sites. Haven't tried either though.
http://mixi.jp/
http://gree.jp/
There is an article on Mixi here in English: http://mashable.com/2006/07/08/mixi-japans-biggest-social-network/
Posted by: Steven Kempton | August 1, 2006 3:51 PM
Not slaid.net but slajd.net
Posted by: RAFi | August 2, 2006 1:53 PM
http://www.eioba.com/index.php/page,/lang,en
Posted by: Alex | August 2, 2006 1:55 PM
above is, even good, polish web20 page (in english version also),
recently article from there was on dzone.com:
http://www.dzone.com/links/beware_of_xhtml.html
Posted by: Alex | August 2, 2006 1:58 PM
Short and sweet (:Polish Web 2.0 live and is developing!
Posted by: reod | August 3, 2006 12:47 AM
in addiction there I can recommend and add websites combined and run under http://osemka.pl/ service - there are:
http://osemka.pl/ (polish portal)
http://aliasy.osemka.pl/ (free aliases)
http://blogi.osemka.pl/ (free blogs)
http://kolektyw.osemka.pl/ (commune)
http://radio.osemka.pl/ (internet radio)
http://albumy.osemka.pl/ (photo albums)
http://hosting.osemka.pl/ (free hosting with php)
http://jpg.pl/ (free web photo albums)
http://hot.jpg.pl/ (flickr like free photos hosting)
http://satyr.pl/ (funny pics, mp3s, videos)
Posted by: Mariusz | August 3, 2006 1:00 AM
Hi,
This list in my opinion is incomplete. Please contribute to our other apps:
http://www.webankieta.pl - polls repository websites
http://www.bubler.pl - exchange objects ;)
http://www.eioba.com - database of articles
http://www.zadajpytanie.pl - another answers site
http://www.i123.pl - video sharing(?), todo lists, rss reader(for beta users only), metasearch engines
http://www.pubb.pl - teenager social networking sites (as beta only at this time)
PS. Sorry, my english is terrible so description is poor.
CY - Maciek
Posted by: mlen | August 3, 2006 3:20 AM
You wrote about blox.pl. bloog.pl and blog.pl, but we have also good blogging sites connected with Jabber and I think it's new in web 2.0 - jogger.pl and jabba.pl.
Posted by: Bellois | August 3, 2006 3:34 AM
Hey, do not forget about polish aplication exactly for women. http://28dni.pl
Posted by: Damazy | August 3, 2006 7:26 AM
There is also good base for polish specialists who can promote by posting articles, and answering questions.
http://www.elans.pl
Posted by: Tomasz | August 8, 2006 7:05 PM
http://miejsca.net - another polish web 2.0 app with google maps
Posted by: alan | August 13, 2006 1:58 PM
There is also www.videosift.pl - It's a polish version of www.videosift.com digg only for videos.
Posted by: Ender | August 14, 2006 6:44 AM
How could this guy not mention www.epuls.pl with over 1 mln users ???
Posted by: Greg | August 18, 2006 2:39 AM
http://www.geoblog.pl - another google maps mashups. very interesting!
Posted by: lm | September 5, 2006 1:56 PM
http://web20.pl/
http://web20.pl/materialy/pti-web20-kwiecien.pdf (Web 2.0 presentation with many web 2.0 apps in Poland)
http://www.videogalaxy.tv/
Posted by: Paul van Veenendaal | November 25, 2006 10:21 AM
http://www.ciekawemiejsca.org - smiliar to http://miejsca.net but far more web 2.0 oriented; users are adding their favourite places; nice usage of Google Maps
Posted by: Radek Gryk | November 28, 2006 3:13 PM
http://modalat50.blogspot.com/ -another polish answers site
Posted by: Moda lat 50 | March 11, 2007 1:22 PM
http://www.gdzieonisa.pl - an excellent polish site. Gdzie Oni Są? Szukasz znajomych, kolegów lub ... Ex? Quirky graphics in a nice sort of way :-)
Posted by: Fred | March 28, 2007 12:03 PM
One more polish multimedia community webpage
Posted by: Ekken | March 28, 2007 12:53 PM
One more polish multimedia community webpage
http://ogladaj.pl
Posted by: Ekken | March 28, 2007 12:53 PM
New project in Polish internet http://woblog.pl .Create your own community webpage.
Posted by: arashti | March 28, 2007 1:04 PM
New project in Polish internet http://www.starsclub.pl
Posted by: cezaro | April 10, 2007 1:07 PM
It´s a very interesting Blog and simple answer of many questions.
Posted by: Radball | April 19, 2007 7:36 AM
web2.0
Posted by: look | May 10, 2007 3:07 AM
www.web.session.pl
Posted by: look | May 10, 2007 3:09 AM
Very good blog. Bardzo spoko stonka pozdrawiam
Posted by: Adam | May 27, 2007 3:19 AM
http://zicherka.pl - local social networking site
Posted by: zicherka.pl | July 29, 2007 9:49 AM
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Posted by: sanjana | August 20, 2007 2:39 AM