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List of Web 2.0 Lists

2006-05-05T22:37:33Z

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.

Ask the eConsultant - seriously impressive list of web 2.0 companies, categorized.
Techcrunch product review list - organized by company name; would be great if also categorized into market segments.
Virtual Karma "Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications" - despite the title, far from complete. But scan the comments too.
Sacred Cow Dung's Everything Web 2.0 - fantastic list and nicely categorized.
Bob Stumple's list A-K and L-Z - this is where Sacred Cow's list is derived from, I think.
Map of the Web 2.0 World - not comprehensive, but has interesting and unique categorizations.
Mashable weblist - Pete Cashmore's mini-blog "featuring concise, opinionated reviews of Web 2.0 companies". Would love some high level categorization wrapped around all the reviews.
Map of RSS Vendors (categorized) - this is my own effort, helped immensely by the people who added to the wiki.
categoriz - nicely categorized list, but not much context around each entry.
NEOBinaries - well-designed, well categorized and feature rich web 2.0 company/product resource; eats the 2.0 dogfood, with user reviews and ratings, etc.
Buzzshout - makes heavy use of tag cloud for categorization. Also has reviews and user ratings.
ProgrammableWeb - the list for mashups, complete with graphs and stats analysis. This is in many ways what I would love to see done on the web 2.0 lists.
The Museum of Modern Betas - I'm told this is a good list of beta products (and what isn't beta in this era of the Web). Unfortunately I've never been able to see it, because of access issues with the domain.
Library Clips meta list and Saul Weiner's list - John Tropea and Saul also have the 'list of lists' thang happening.
Emily Chang's eHub - Another excellent resource and is categorized too.
Web 2.0 Innovation Map - not really a list as such, but a Google Map of 2.0 startups.
Web2List - the name says it all!
Listable - organized by popularity.
Web2.0Slides - "a self-running slide show of over 1,400 of the best Web2.0 sites."
Office 2.0 Database - nicely categorized table.
I want to: - organized by user-focused tasks, e.g. "Communicate with other people; chat, email".
WWWhat's new? - Spanish list which looks pretty comprehensive.
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - wiki by Jeff Nolan with excellent list of enterprise apps.

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.

Comment from Pete Cashmore on 2006-05-05

2006-05-05T22:41:54Z

"Would love some high level categorization wrapped around all the reviews."

So would I!

Comment from Jon Gretar on 2006-05-05

2006-05-05T23:36:57Z

[Plugg start]Well... in 10 days there will be the site http://web2.0interact.com/.
It 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] ;)

Comment from Mike on 2006-05-05

2006-05-06T03:30:27Z

"Web 2.0", shurely a mishtake editor? :-)

Great list of resources, thanks for sharing it

Comment from George | MonthlyDollar.com on 2006-05-05

2006-05-06T03:42:41Z

Hmm, you forgot the museum of modern betas.

http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2006-05-05

2006-05-06T03:53:35Z

Probably 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 :-)

Comment from John Diep on 2006-05-05

2006-05-06T03:57:54Z

Richard,

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

Comment from BillyG on 2006-05-05

2006-05-06T06:05:11Z

Too 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.

Comment from Frank Gruber on 2006-05-06

2006-05-06T15:15:54Z

Great job Richard pulling this together.

Comment from John Tropea on 2006-05-06

2006-05-06T15:43:24Z

I've got a web2.0 list of lists happening here:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/05/06/
lists-lists-lists-web2o-lists-lists-lists/

Comment from walter on 2006-05-06

2006-05-06T20:19:36Z

Hi Richard,

There's a very good googlemap of web2.0 companies at
http://www.fourio.com/web20map/

Comment from http://leewilkins.com.com on 2006-05-07

2006-05-07T23:02:09Z

Richard,

over 1,900 web 2.0 companies can be found here:

http://openbc.com/net/everything2.0

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2006-05-07

2006-05-07T23:14:02Z

The Openbc link re-directed to their homepage. Looks like you have to register to view it??

Comment from Channy on 2006-05-07

2006-05-08T06:18:06Z

If you are interested in korean web2.0 activities, there is http://koreacrunch.com

Comment from Easton Ellsworth on 2006-05-08

2006-05-08T13:07:41Z

Great 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.

Comment from sirjoe on 2006-05-08

2006-05-08T15:01:52Z

Thanks a lot for your listing!
I'm creating an Italian list of web2.0 ressources, and your page was a great starting point!
S:

Comment from Prak on 2006-05-08

2006-05-08T19:27:28Z

Great job! Big hands for your efforts.
Thanks a lot.

www.fortytwo.co.kr/directory2

is the list I am working on

Comment from Andy on 2006-05-08

2006-05-08T19:55:05Z

I'm just starting to look into Web 2.0 and am gathering some resources so thanks for this great list of lists!

Comment from Brian Solis on 2006-05-08

2006-05-08T21:28:57Z

Thanks 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/
web-20-internet-20-dotcom-20.html

Comment from Sarfaraz on 2006-05-08

2006-05-09T05:32:07Z

Hey you missed out swapthing.com I have not used thier service but I liked thier idea.

Comment from Greg on 2006-05-09

2006-05-09T13:38:44Z

http://www.web2null.de
definitively a web 2.0 list (in german)

Comment from Romasha on 2006-05-10

2006-05-10T09:19:02Z

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!

Comment from Anonymous App Coder on 2006-05-12

2006-05-13T01:26:52Z

I 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-

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2006-05-13

2006-05-13T07:09:46Z

Calm down Anonymous App Coder, it's just a catchphrase.