Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The Big List of Web 2.0 Companies
A prettier visualization of Web 2.0 sites is available at Go2Web2.0 maintained by Orli Yakuel.
This list will be continually updated.
Blogs
QuickBlog: build blog quickly, 27 designs, no banner ads
Company Labs
Jobs Boards
Food
lunchSpark: community for food, friends and fun.
Menuism: built from reviews by hungry users like yourself. Contribute and you'll get daily recommendations and find new places to eat.
Form Creators
FormLogix: Create simple web forms, templates available
Human Intelligence Required
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Google Image Labeler
Music
Last.fm
Songbird
Pandora
Photos
iStockphoto: collection of member-generated royalty-free images
Tabblo: Your photos. Your words. Put them together with Tabblo and tell your story.
Podcasts
Noisely: Noisely is an "intelligent" podcast player, just enter some words describing what you would like to listen and Noisely will reproduce many hours of continuos podcasts sequencially.
Science
InnoCentive: solve scientific puzzles for cash
Search
Zippy: meta search engine, bringing you results from Google, Yahoo and MSN, as well as webmaster-oriented extra information about any URL in results
Shopping
Jellyfish: Innovative Dutch auction approach to bidding on goods
Offertrax: Become a tracker and receive alerts to price changes and special offers anonymously.
Stocks
Wikinancial: Share stock picks, share advice
Travel
MyOutdoors: Map your outdoor activities. Journal your progress. Attach Photos. Share it all with friends and family
Website analytics
Compete:Provides free information for every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics; a list of available promotional codes across thousands of online retailers; and site-specific trust scores based on up-to-the-minute data from Compete and third party security services.
Crazy Egg: heat map, pay site
Cogentoo: visualize visitor clicks as a heat map
Website Creator
Rezzible: AJAX website creator for Second LIfe users
Weebly: create websites with drag-and-drop interface, export to ZIP, personalize subdomains
Wiki
Social Networking Tools
MySpace
MySpace Stuff: Woo...tons of free stuff for your MySpace needs. Layouts, codes, comment graphics and more.
HotFreeLayouts: about 8000 layouts categorized into music, girls, love, sports, guys, etc.
Photo Slideshows
PhotoShow: Upload photos from your computer, any MySpace account, or photo URL. After uploading photos, you can customize your music, captions, transition styles, and more
Labels: Technology