1.000 (random?) web2.0-sites ranked by traffic

Seth Godin and Ron Hornbaker from Alexaholic (a smart tool for comparing several sites by their Alexa traffic-data) have put together a comprehensive ranking of almost 1.000 web2.0-websites (‘web2.0′ being defined as sites that ‘let people collaborate and share information online in a new way’ – Wikipedia).
while it’s fun to grep through the list (from [...]

drinking 2.0

to no surprise, tech-geeks enjoy a drink after office-hours like anyone else does (maybe even more?). weither your’re into beer, wine or stronger stuff – the new, social web has got something to match your taste…
cork’d.com is a free service aimed at wine-lovers. users catalog, rate, tag and review wines they’ve tried out. on the [...]

online operating systems: Desktoptwo

Desktoptwo is a web-based desktop-environment introduced on TechCrunch recently. currently in beta, Desktoptwo is based on the spanish-only computadora, an online service offering email, IM, calendar and storage to currently 100.000 subscribers. unlike YouOS (which I wrote about a few days ago), Desktoptwo is 100% flash-based. applications include mail-client, IM-messenger (MSN, Jabber, Gtalk – no [...]

online operating systems: YouOS

during the past year, AJAX-driven portals have sprung up like mushrooms. most of these sites don’t offer more than consolidating RSS-feeds and other (3rd-party) web-widgets. examples include startups like PageFlakes, HomePortals and Protopage as well as Microsoft Live and Google IG.
YouOS (discovered on Zinnaglism) is a browser-based ‘collaborative web operating system’ which goes far beyond. [...]

“Why Web 2.0 is just like High School”…

…is the title of skeptic’s latest post on dead2.0. if you’re a regular reader of, lets say 5, A-list tech-blogs (or valleywag, for that matter), you certainly will have a feeling that statement might be true – “Why Web 2.0 is just like High School” gives plenty of evidence…
In High School…You really hope [...]

office is dead? #5: Google Writely

first released august 2005, online text-processor Writely has been one of the first attempts of moving desktop-office-apps to the web. initial hype among web2.0-evangelists eventually peaked in an aquisition by Google in march 2006. since than, Writely kept quite stable (not to say stalled) – it hasn’t got any new major features, isn’t integrated with [...]

karaoke 2.0

SingShot, an online-karaoke-webapp (check this TechCrunch-post earlier today) made me waste spend almost two hours of my evening. basically it’s a flash-applet playing the instrumentals of a chosen song, tele-prompting its lyrics for singing-along on screen while recording your voice from the microphone. SingShot’s community will review and vote on your recorded [...]

does web2.0 connect with the masses?

skeptic from dead2.0 started an interesting series of posts, asking his mother – who he claims has been an average internet-user for years – about her knowledege of substantial web2.0-buzzwords. the subject of interest is given 30min, researching the given term on the web. covered so far: RSS and Wiki. unsurprisingly, the candidate has never [...]

logo 2.0

there seems to be this new sport among (unemployed?) graphic-designers who are reworking old-established logos and trademarks the web2.0-way (caught on dead2.0)…

if you’re addicted to web2.0-artwork, you might wanna try these links:

http://yh.yayhooray.com/web20logos.html
http://livewavecam.com/logoredesign.html

digg labs stack & swarm launch

unimpressed by the ongoing dispute between digg-founder Kevin Rose and AOL/Netscape’s Jason Calacanis concerning Jason’s lucrative offer to top digg-submitters, digg labs just launched two innovative data-visualization-features which might help staying ahead of Netscape.

the stack is a live-representation of users digging storys. each digg is visualized as a white bar dropping from above. each stack [...]