Blogosphere – By the bloggers, Of the Bloggers and For the Bloggers.
Businessweek has published an interesting article ‘Best of Web 2006′ – which is result of a survey conducted over a period of past few months.
The results have been organized into 4 groups – Information Overload, Money Matters, Not at Work, and Do-It-Yourself Web.
Here are the winners:
- Blogs – TechCrunch tops the blog list,
- News – Google news makes the perfect news
- Buying/Selling category – Craiglist
- Finance – Yahoo Finance
- Social Networking – Bebo
- Blogging Tools – Wordpress (1st), Blogger (2nd)!!
- Photosharing – Flickr (quite obvious)
- Webmail – Gmail tops the list, followed by Y! and Hotmail. The most surprising entry is tempinbox.com
- Video – YouTube (obvious), but am sure this will change by the next year.
- Jobs – Monster is pushed to 2nd place by SimplyHired.
- Collaboration tools – Wikipedia tops the list (I wonder how wikipedia is part of this list – people don’t collaborate using it!), followed by Central Desktop, Jotspot and Basecamp.
The survey also asked BW readers to rate their favourite blogs. And the top 12 are:
About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in.
He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]
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