SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards (2007)
SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards (2007)
SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover the best in
each of 41 categories, e.g. Business, Blog Guides, Real Estate, Web
Development and Design, Mashups and Marketing,etc. From there, they
assembled a team of 25 of the most knowledgeable, well-respected
experts in the field to vote on the winners. Do enjoy the best of web
2.0!
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Blog Guides
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technorati.comMonitor
your links and reputation through the world’s leading provider of blog
information. Find new blogs to read and attempt to get into
Technorati’s top blog list!- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.bloglines.comAmass your own collection of blog feeds. Publish your own blog and share your favorite content with others.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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findory.comGet your own homepage that shows you what you’re interested in from the blogs and news sources you choose to subscribe to.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Feedster
www.feedster.com
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Bookmarking
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ma.gnolia.comKeep track of your favorite online content and quickly see what others have said about a site while you’re still browsing it.
Interview:
“When Ma.gnolia was conceived, there were a lot of bookmarking services
that were effective tools, but none that focussed on the social and
aesthetic aspects of being in a community and sharing what they find
online. We set out to make not only a powerful, useful tool for saving
and publishing resources, but also a pleasant experience.” Read our interview with Todd Sieling, Product Manager, Ma.gnolia- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.furl.netStore
your favorite corners of the internet and let others discover the cool
stuff you’ve found. Comment on the content you find and read what other
users are saying about your bookmarks.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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clipmarks.comSave
the web content that makes you sit up and take notice, not just the
webpage you found that content on. Share that content with others in
the hope that it will make them think, "wow!" as well!- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Blummy
www.blummy.com
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Books
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www.lulu.comAvoid
the hassles of publishers and agents – publish your own manuscripts
with Lulu. Browse the content that others have published via the site
and vie to be featured on Lulu’s front page!Interview:
“The ultimate goal for Lulu was to become a digital marketplace, like a
mix of eBay and Amazon.com, a place for people to monetize their
intellectual property instead of stuff.” Read our interview with Lauren Parker, PR Manager, Lulu- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.biblio.comSearch for out-of-print books from independent booksellers and buy them through Biblio’s user-friendly site.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.librarything.comConnect with people who read similar books to you, and get suggestions as to what you should read next.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Reader2
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Blue Rectangle
bluerectangle.com
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Business
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www.squidoo.comCreate
a Squidoo "lens" to market yourself, your products or just something
that you’re passionate about. View and rate other people’s lenses and
hope your content is rated well by others!Interview:
“We needed a place that was easier to use than a blog. A site that
amplified the best work of bloggers. A site that enabled a human being
to make sense of a tiny portion of the web.” Read our interview with Seth Godin, Co-Founder, Squidoo- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.instantbull.comCompare
and track the stock market, access stock message boards and browse
stock market blogs. Instant Bull has all the current information you’d
ever need about what’s hot on Wall Street.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 2 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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shopify.comPick from templates or design your own online store. Track orders and keep your store highly organized.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Web 2.0 Stores
web2.0stores.com
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City Guides & Reviews
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www.yelp.comYelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what’s great -and not so great- in your area.
Interview:
“Our first version of the site was very different from what you see
today. The focus was anchored around emailing your friends to ask them
for advice on doctors, mechanics etc when you needed the information.
However, we noticed that for some reason, our "write a review" feature
buried deep in the site started to get a lot of attention.” Read our interview with Jeremy Stoppleman, CEO, Yelp- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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www.judysbook.comJudy’s
Book is an online community where smart shoppers find and share the
best deals, sales and coupons – both from online and local retailers.- Usability 3 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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local.yahoo.comYahoo!
Local has business reviews, top rated services, and events. Use
interactive maps, driving directions reviews and ratings to find the
right service near you.- Usability 3 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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Google Local
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Live.com Local
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Citysearch
www.citysearch.com
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Classifieds and Directories
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craigslist.orgEverything and anything you could want to buy, sell, find or read in one place. Look for dates, apartments, jobs and much more.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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www.oodle.comA comprehensive classified site that lets users refine their searches in many awesome ways, such as by what college they attend.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.vflyer.com/main/Guest.jspvFlyer lets users create one ad and have it posted on many classified sites, such as Google Base, Oodle and eBay.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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Go 2 Web 2.0
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Idealist
www.idealist.org
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Collaborative Writing and Word Processing
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docs.google.comCreate and collaborate on files of every kind. See who edited which documents and when.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.writeboard.comOnline
text editing made collaborative, Writeboard lets you and your team edit
documents while still being able to access earlier versions of the same
text. Subscribe to RSS feeds of documents’ changes and share documents
with as many people as you like.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfoA
completely free “online alternative to Microsoft Office”, ThinkFree
lets you create, collaborate on and store documents and files.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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AjaxWrite
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Celtx
www.celtx.com
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Communication
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wwwl.meebo.com/index-en.htmlUse
your favorite instant messaging service, no matter where you are or
whether the computer you’re using has the right software.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.campfirenow.comFrom
the folks at 37 Signals, Campfire lets businesses engage in “web-based
group chat” where they can create chat rooms to tele-conference with
each other or with clients.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.mailemotion.tvSend multimedia mail, using your webcam. All you need is a webcam and an internet connection and you’re good to go.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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IMified
imified.com
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Content Aggregation and Management
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www.wufoo.comCreate
forms for every survey you’d care to perform. From the daily “what to
have for lunch” question to more in-depth questionnaires, Wufoo has a
solution for most queries.Interview:
“For the most part, Wufoo pretty much accomplishes what we had in mind
from the beginning, which is helping people create simple
do-it-yourself database applications without the help from someone in
the IT department.” Read our interview with Chris and Ryan Campbell, and Kevin Hale, Founders, Wufoo- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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projectstat.usLet
customers know what’s going on with their projects by uploading their
project’s information and letting them log in and view the project’s
progress.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.editgrid.com/homeCollaborate
and save spreadsheets online. Share your spreadsheets or make them
private. View public templates and browse by top EditGrid users.- Usability 3 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Numsum
numsum.com
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Digital Storage and Remote Access
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www.omnidrive.comStoring
content online couldn’t be easier than it is with this drag-and-drop
tool. Edit, share and publish documents with Omnidrive, even if you or
your users don’t have the software to open said documents.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.esnips.comEasily
keep track of your content and the cool things you find online. Create
communities by sharing your stuff, or keep it private: it’s up to you.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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totoexpress.comSharing
and collaborating with an unlimited number of people on large or
sensitive documents is made easier with TotoExpress. View stats on
users’ actions. Specifically designed for those involved in the media,
this service has no trouble handling multimedia files.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Fluxiom
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SafeMe
www.safeme.co.uk
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Events
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upcoming.yahoo.comKeep
track of you’re your events and find new events to attend in your area
and around the country. Join groups and find out what people who share
your interests are attending.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.eventful.comRequest
that events take place in your town or search Eventful’s wide
assortment of listed events. Search by locale, venue or topic; check
out calendars and keep track of your event schedule.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.confabb.comKeep track of the best conferences to attend on one site. Search by category, speaker and add conferences to the directory.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Lovento
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Seatsnapper
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BeeThere
www.beethere.net
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Feed Management
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www.feedburner.com/fb/a/homeFeedBurner
helps online publishers – anyone producing content on the web – to
manage, promote and monetize their distributed media.Interview:
“The original goal was to help publishers manage, promote and monetize
their distributed media. More than three years and hundreds of
thousands of feeds later, that’s what we’re still doing.” Read our interview with Traci Hailpern, FeedBurner- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.attensa.comUse Attensa in conjunction with Outlook in order to keep yourself and your team up-to-date.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.blogbridge.comOrganize your blog and news feeds into one desktop application.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Rojo
www.rojo.com
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Fun Stuff
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www.cocktailbuilder.comBar
full of booze and no idea what to do with it? Tell the Cocktail Builder
what liquor and mixers you have lying around and it will tell you what
cocktails you can make!- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.onesentence.orgTell a true story in one sentence and read the one-sentence-stories of others’.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 1 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.fuzzmail.orgSend mail to your friends and let them see all of your edits, typos and revisions in real time.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 2 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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FwdItOn
www.fwditon.com
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Games
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www.arcaplay.comThis
site houses a slew of online games, presented in Flash, that you can
play onsite, or embed in a personal website, social networking page or
blog. The site will show you how many times you’ve played a certain
game, how many times the game has been played overall and how many
people have marked the game as a favorite.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 0 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.games2web.comThis
one’s for the MySpace crowd. A library of games, movies and other
embeddables that can be integrated into the majority of social
networking sites, not just the popular ones.- Usability 3 / 5
- Usefulness 0 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-googleHow
often do you use Google Images? How good are you at picking a common
theme? Guess-The-Google shows you twenty pictures that Google Images
returned for a specific keyword. You have to guess wha
t that keyword was. The catch? You only have twenty seconds in which to
guess the correct answer.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 0 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Felix Games
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Blufr
www.blufr.com
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Health
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www.peertrainer.comConnect
with other people who are interested in fitness and training. Join team
activities and find support from users who share the same goals as you.Interview:
“We are taking an industry approach to developing the site, the product
and the business. We have been successful on weight loss outcomes, and
the focus is now on overall health outcomes as well.” Read our interview with Habib Wicks, Co-founder, PEERtrainer- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.medstory.comA
search engine for all things health-related, Medstory lets you search
for your health query, presenting you with ways to refine your search
by disorder, drugs, studies and more.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.healia.com/healiaSearch for your health query, and utilize Healia’s filter to make your results more specific.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Revolution Health
www.revolutionhealth.com
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Hosted Wikis
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www.wetpaint.comWetpaint’s
wikis come fully equipped with smart navigation, tag clouds, awesome
editing interfaces and neat customization features that allow users to
make their wikis as beautiful as possible.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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pbwiki.comSimple and free to use, PBWiki allows users to upload HTML in order to customize their pages.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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stikipad.comA cheap hosted wiki service, Stikipad comes with neat features such as the ability to track changes and easily update content.
- Usability 3 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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OttoWiki
www.ottowiki.com
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Lists and Polls
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www.43things.comList the things you’d like to do, achieve or see. Keep track of your "things" and get ideas from others.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.statsaholic.comKeep track of sites’ popularity, as reported by Alexa. Compare sites’ stats and download widgets for your blog.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.listdump.comA
list-junkie’s dream! Browse lists on thousands of different topics. Add
your own lists, contribute to and vote on other users’ lists.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Quimble
quimble.com
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Mapping
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maps.google.comThe
web’s most popular and concise collection of maps and satellite images.
Get directions, view amazingly detailed images of landmarks or zoom in
on your favorite locations!- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.wayfaring.comCreate and share maps with friends or the Wayfaring community at large.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.frappr.comCreate maps for people of certain interests, or browse and join the maps of other users, adding yourself and your location.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Rrove
www.rrove.com -
GymPost
www.gympost.com -
Weatherbonk
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Live Maps
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Ask Maps
maps.ask.com/maps -
Yahoo! Maps
maps.yahoo.com/index.php
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Marketing
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www.icontact.comProduce email newsletters, surveys, RSS feeds and more. Send information to subscribers quickly and easily.
Interview:
“iContact began as an email marketing application and has expanded into
an online communications tool. We are creating one single web app that
allows businesses to manage all of their online communications in one
place.” Read our interview with Ryan Allis, CEO, iContact- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.conduit.comCreate
a free, unobtrusive toolbar for your customers to add to their
browsers. Incorporate live chat, a search box and your company’s logo.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.plugim.comA social news site, this is the place to find what people are currently talking about in the world of internet marketing.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Smartmessages
www.smartmessages.net
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Mashups
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www.ning.comIncorporate many applications in a customized website that you can keep private or share with a community.
Interview:
“We created Ning to give everyone the opportunity to make their own
social network for anything. This is a really powerful idea, and we are
finding that it is even more so in practice. ”
Read our interview with Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.boxxet.comFind the net’s best content, brought together into "Boxxets."
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.coverpop.comView
awesome montages of similar items, such as pictures from Flickr,
magazines and books or YouTube videos. Click through from the montage
to view the source of any particular image.- Usability 3 / 5
- Usefulness 2 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Liveplasma
www.musicplasma.com
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Mobile Technology
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twitter.comFind
out what other people are doing in real time. Become part of a
world-wide community that keeps in touch by answering the question,
“what are you doing?”- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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plusmo.com/homepage/home.shtmlNever fall out of the loop, just because you’re out and about. Get slideshows, feeds and more content sent to your mobile phone.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.juicecaster.comSharing
your life while you’re on the go is easy with JuiceCaster. Publish your
phone’s pictures to your page on JuiceCaster and then incorporate that
content to your social networking or blog pages.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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BluePulse
www.bluepulse.com
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Music
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www.pandora.comDiscover
new music via "your personal DJs" at Pandora. Keep letting Pandora’s
player know what you like to hear, and it will keep providing you with
tunes you enjoy!Interview:
“By focusing on testing first, we’ve been able to dramatically reduce
the amount of time we need to dedicate to testing. This lets us release
better software on more aggressive schedules than anything I’ve been
involved with to date.” Read our interview with Michele Husak, Director of Communications, Pandora- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.last.fmLet
Last.fm take note of what you like to listen to and let is present you
with music it thinks you’ll also enjoy. Take a look at what other
people are listening to and what’s hot in the community.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.discrevolt.comDiscrevolt
allows artists to print up artist-specific download cards which they
can sell to fans. Fans then use the special code on the back of their
cards to download the artist’s music from Discrevolt.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Whole Wheat Radio
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MyStrands
www.mystrands.com/download
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Online Desktop
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www.goowy.com/index.aspxIncludes
email, contact manager and games, this service gives you an email
address that you can access from your online desktop. Easily
customizable, you can incorporate a lot of cool applications into this
one platform.Interview:
“We wanted to bring desktop like functionality such as dragging and
dropping, context sensitive right-clicks, keyboard shortcuts and a
greater overall level of interactivity to the world of web mail.” Read our interview with Gary Benitt, Founder, Goowy- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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desktoptwo.comA
desktop online, Desktoptwo includes many of the things you’ll find on
your computer, such as a hard drive, email, IM, office programs and
changeable wallpaper.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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eyeos.orgA
web operating system, this service lets you either download its
software or use it through the eyeOS server. Includes a calculator,
calendar, word processor and mail.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Glide Digital
www.glidedigital.com
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Organization
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www.google.com/aCombine
Google’s great features such as Gmail, Talk, Docs & Spreadsheets
and Google Calendar into your company’s virtual office. The service
comes complete with a “custom domain” on which your documents, mail and
conversations are stored.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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zoho.comIncludes
Writer, Spreadsheet, Show, Wiki, Virtual Office, Project management,
planner and chat feature. A complete office experience in one, users
can take advantage of all or some of Zoho’s features.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
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www.backpackit.comBackpack
comes from the team at 37signals and is loaded with useful
organizational tools. Keep your pages private or share them, schedule
text message and email alerts and enjoy regular online-office services
such as a calendar and to-do lists/- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Veetro
www.veetro.com -
Office Zilla
officezilla.com
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Philanthropy
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www.care2.comIncorporating
petitions, donations, groups and tips, Care2 is an online hub of people
who care about their world and want to make it better.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.htmlDon’t
be concerned about where your donation money goes to anymore. Browse
what teachers have said their classrooms need, and choose where your
dollar goes.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.begreennow.comKeep
track of how “green” you are. Record your environmentally friendly
actions and see how your contributions adds to a world-wide
conservation effort.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Givezilla
www.givezilla.com -
Give Meaning
www.givemeaning.com/default.aspx -
Netsquared
www.netsquared.org
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Photos and Digital Images
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www.flickr.comA
social photo-sharing service a large community and huge inventory of
images, Flickr has an older audience than some other photo sharing
sites and thus usually produces the best quality shots.Interview:
“Flickr is recognized as the leading photosharing community with over
28 million unique visitors globally each month, and an increase in its
audience by a factor of 2.3 in the past year. Flickr currently has over
8 million registered members who’ve uploaded and shared almost 500
million photos.” Read our interview with Stewart Butterfield, General Manager and Co-Founder, Flickr- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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picasa.google.comGoogle’s
photo sharing service comes with excellent software for editing your
pictures. Easy, fast uploads make Picasa fun and simple to use.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.picnik.comAn online photo editor with tons of cool features, you can use Picnik to edit and enhance images on your computer.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Picture2Life
www.picture2life.com -
XMG Image
www.xmgimage.com
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Podcast Services
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odeo.comOdeo
shares millions of podcasts and MP3s with its audience. Users can
gerenate their own podcasts or simply enjoy those of others’.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.podshow.comBringing together TV shows, videos, music and a passionate community, you can find just about anything multi-media at PodShow.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.podomatic.comKeep track of your podcasts’ stats and see how much attention your content is getting from PodOmatic’s community.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Yodio
https://beta.yodio.com
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Professional Networking
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www.linkedin.comA
must for many professionals, LinkedIn allows people to recommend you,
find you via your location and expertise, and prompts users to
advertise their experience and education for potential clients and
employers.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.spoke.comSpoke
is a large “freemium” service that boasts thirty-five million people
and almost a million companies. Use the service to find potential
clients and employees.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.xing.comSee
your contacts’ contact lists and develop an extensive professional
network. Add your educational information, external online resources
and establish trust based on your Xing connections.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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SaleSpider
www.salespider.com
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Questions and Advice
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answers.yahoo.comHelp Yahoo! users answer questions on every topic imaginable. Ask questions and have the community help you out with answers.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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www.minti.comConnect with parents worldwide. Ask and answer questions about all things child-care related.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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say-so.orgEnjoy the combination feedback, questions, advice and blogging. Join discussions and get involved in the large Say-So community.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Quomon
quomon.com
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Real Estate
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www.zillow.comFind out what the houses you’re interested in should cost and browse listings nationwide.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.housingmaps.comUse
this Craigslists – Google Maps mashup to find properties for rent or
for sale in your area. The interface is deceivingly simple; dive in and
discover how content-rich HousingMaps really is.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 1 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.iiproperty.comManage your properties with software that lets you track rents, bills, advertisements and invoicing.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Propsmart
www.propsmart.com -
HotPads
hotpads.com/main.htm
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Retail
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www.threadless.comA
thriving online community that revolves around designing tee-shirts,
Threadless engages its users both in the designing (it’s a constant
competition) and in the community itself.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.etsy.comEtsy’s
products, which are exclusively handmade, include art, jewelry,
handbags, glassware, furniture and much more. All items are sold via
the website.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 3 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.wipbox.comWipBox
lets users find the correct categories for their listings on
Craigslsit, the average selling prices for items online and quickly
find out how sites like Amazon list and review similar products.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Kdollar
www.kdollar.com
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Search
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www.rollyo.comTell
Rollyo which sites you’d like to draw searches from for a particular
topic in order to get search results that you can really trust.Interview:
“Years later, I realized that web tools had advanced to the point where
I could give users the ability to create and share custom search
engines in a matter of seconds” Read our interview with Dave Pell of Rollyo- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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swicki.eurekster.comCreate a customized search engine for your site. The engine learns from those who use it and consistently betters its results.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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pipl.comFind web results about people. Sort results by Quick Facts, New Articles, Profiles and Web Pages.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 3 / 5
- Content Quality 0 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Simply Google
www.usabilityviews.com/simply_google.htm -
Zuula
www.zuula.com
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Social Networking
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www.facebook.comOnce
the online hang-out of college kids, Facebook is the biggest thing to
hit the social networking sphere since Friendster and MySpace. The
service aims to include a "real time" feel to its site, showing users’
actions to their friends on a time-stamped "News Feed."- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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mingle2.comMingle2
is a completely free online dating website built with one goal in mind:
making online dating easy, fun, and accessible to everyone. It’s not a
popularity contest or a place where you collect a massive list of
strangers on a friends list, it’s simply a medium for singles to meet
one another.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.imbee.comThis
social networking site is restricted to use by people under the age of
eighteen. Parental consent is required in order to access the site, and
Imbee does its best to verify that parents are who they say they are by
requiring credit card information, even though the service is free.- Usability 3 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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MySpace
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Bebo
www.bebo.com -
Consumating
www.consumating.com
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Social News
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www.digg.comSubmit
your stories to Digg’s massive, tech-savvy community. Vote on the
stories of others and hope to make it to Digg’s much-coveted front page.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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reddit.comFind
quirky, smart and fun content on Reddit’s social news site. Discuss
news stories with others and enjoy one of the web’s more engaging
communities.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.newsvine.comEnjoy the combination of user-generated and submitted news with news that comes "off the wire."
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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CampusReader
www.campusreader.com -
Gabbr
gabbr.com -
Now Public
www.nowpublic.com
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Social Tagging
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del.icio.usSave
your favorite web content to your del.icio.us account. View others’
favorite things and add people to your network in order to keep track
of the cool things they’ve found online.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.stumbleupon.comTell
StumbleUpon what you’re interested in and let it take your on a tour of
the web, showing you only what it thinks you’ll like. Let it know if
you like the sites it takes you to by giving them "thumbs up" or
"thumbs down."- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.blinklist.comKeep track of your web favorites and the favorite things of you friends by “blinking” sites you like.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Listal
www.listal.com
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Start Pages
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www.netvibes.comA
customizable page to start your day, you can add YouTube videos,
personal notes, feeds, an email wizard and more. You even get to pick
your page’s title.Interview:
“We want to liberate the web and give people the ultimate freedom to
personalize the entire Internet the way they want it. People shouldn’t
have to surf and login endlessly from site to site, or be locked into a
corporate portal telling them how their web experience should be.” Read our interview with Tariq Krim, Netvibes- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.pageflakes.comTell PageFlakes what you want to see when you log in, and get specialized feeds, games and news.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.google.com/igChoose from Google’s array of widgets to add to your personalized Google homepage.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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My Yahoo!
my.yahoo.com
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Travel
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farecast.comFarecast
predicts U.S. domestic price changes, lets users book airline tickets
online and provides refunds if they get their predictions wrong!
There’s absolutely nothing bad you can say about that!Interview:
“Farecast was created to answer the question "should you buy your
airline ticket now or wait?" In the past few releases, we’ve expanded
our offerings to answer questions like, "when is the best time to
travel, and is this a good deal?"” Read our interview with David Shim, Farecast- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.kayak.comSearch for flights, hotels, cars, cruises and travel deals, and check in on the latest "buzz" in the travel industry.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 2 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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realtravel.comRead
users’ advice about their travel experiences and use RealTravel’s Free
Trip Planner to map out your ideal vacation. You can also create blogs
to share your trips with others.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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Jumpclaimer
www.jumpclaimer.com/claim/start.jsp -
Hotels Combined
www.hotelscombined.com -
Gusto
www.gusto.com
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Video
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youtube.comThe
web’s most popular video sharing application lets users upload their
own videos, embed videos on their own sites and search others’ content.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 3 / 5
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www.dailymotion.com/usView others’ videos and discover how easy it is to present videos on your own website.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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www.metacafe.comExplore Metacafe’s videos or share your content with others. Earn money by contributing highly rated, highly viewed content.
- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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ClipRoller
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Search Video
www.searchvideo.com
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Visual Arts
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colorblender.comMatch colors and create cool palettes easily. Get the Photoshop Color Table for your palette and view palettes made by others.
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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swivel.comShow your data on neat graphs and take a look at others’ graphs and charts. It’s more than just data entry; it’s art!
- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.thebroth.comA
virtual library of online art that constantly changes with the input of
users. Browse the collection, begin a new masterpiece or add to the
existing artwork!- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 0 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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The One Million Masterpiece
www.millionmasterpiece.com -
Visual Complexity
www.visualcomplexity.com/vc
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Web Development and Design
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www.cakephp.orgCake
is a rapid development framework for PHP whose primary goal is to
provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to
rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to
flexibility.- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.prototypejs.orgPrototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
- Usability 0 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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developer.yahoo.com/yuiThe
Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls,
written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications
using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library
also includes several core CSS resources.- Usability 0 / 5
- Usefulness 5 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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CSS Beauty
cssbeauty.com -
Mint
haveamint.com -
Bluo CMS
www.bluocms.com -
MochiKit
www.mochikit.com -
Performancing
performancing.com -
AllSyntax
allsyntax.com -
Django
www.djangoproject.com -
Ruby on Rails
www.rubyonrails.org -
Yahoo! Pipes
pipes.yahoo.com/pipes
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Widgets
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www.yourminis.comFind widgets for your blog or website that include your favorite services like Twitter and Digg.
Interview:
“One reason that we decided to make yourminis.com a standalone product
is to give it a life of it’s own, as we knew that there was so much
that could be done with it. Initially we launched the startpage for
internal consumption of the “best of the web”. We then added in a
sharing feature, which allowed users to publish their startpage.” Read our interview with Gary Benitt, Founder, YourMinis- Usability 4 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 5 / 5
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www.springwidgets.comDownload
widgets for your desktop or your website. Choose from a vast array of
widgets, such as an iPhone countdown, Lunar Phase Calendar and
SpringWidget’s own RSS Reader.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 4 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
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flock.comA
browser especially developed for social networking addicts, you can
easily stay up-to-date with your online networks absolutely hassle-free.- Usability 5 / 5
- Usefulness 4 / 5
- Interface & Design 5 / 5
- Content Quality 4 / 5
Honorable Mentions
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ClearSpring
www.clearspring.com -
AdaptiveBlue
www.adaptiveblue.com
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