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.
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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/.
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] ;)
Posted by: Jon Gretar | May 5, 2006 4:36 PM
"Web 2.0", shurely a mishtake editor? :-)
Great list of resources, thanks for sharing it
Posted by: Mike | May 5, 2006 8:30 PM
Hmm, you forgot the museum of modern betas.
http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/
Posted by: George | MonthlyDollar.com | May 5, 2006 8:42 PM
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 :-)
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 5, 2006 8:53 PM
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
Posted by: John Diep | May 5, 2006 8:57 PM
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.
Posted by: BillyG | May 5, 2006 11:05 PM
Great job Richard pulling this together.
Posted by: Frank Gruber | May 6, 2006 8:15 AM
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/
Posted by: John Tropea | May 6, 2006 8:43 AM
Hi Richard,
There's a very good googlemap of web2.0 companies at
http://www.fourio.com/web20map/
Posted by: walter | May 6, 2006 1:19 PM
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 PM
The 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 PM
If you are interested in korean web2.0 activities, there is http://koreacrunch.com
Posted by: Channy | May 7, 2006 11:18 PM
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.
Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | May 8, 2006 6:07 AM
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:
Posted by: sirjoe | May 8, 2006 8:01 AM
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 PM
I'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 PM
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
Posted by: Brian Solis | May 8, 2006 2:28 PM
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 PM
http://www.web2null.de
definitively a web 2.0 list (in german)
Posted by: Greg | May 9, 2006 6:38 AM
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 AM
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-
Posted by: Anonymous App Coder | May 12, 2006 6:26 PM
Calm down Anonymous App Coder, it's just a catchphrase.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 13, 2006 12:09 AM