The Essential Web2.0 Company in life

A few days ago, Michael Al, a famous blogger, published an article on the 15 Web 2.0 sites that are essential to their lives, including Digg, Flickr and other well-known sites, but my usual del.icio.us and Google Reader are not in it, somehow. These sites are really good, but you can now visit these sites may be very slow (submarine cable has not been repaired), if you do not want to use a proxy server, then please come to the end of this month or early February to visit, then the speed should be very fast. The following is the Chinese translation of Sina Science and technology translations.

The Essential Web2.0 Company in life

A year ago, Arlington wrote an article entitled "An Essential Web2.0 company in my Life" and listed 13 companies that had the biggest impact on his daily life. He likes the products of these companies and uses them every day. Into the 2007, Arlington updated the list. In the original 13 companies, 7 companies were retained, while the other 6 were Mingluosunshan. In addition, he has added two new companies, so there are 15 Web2.0 companies in the new list, and the following is a list of these companies (sorted by initials):

　　800-free-411:

The Free 411 service saved me a lot of money last year. So far, 411 services have accounted for more than 3% per cent of the U.S. information-call market, and even at&t have announced that they will emulate its model. This is, of course, a good news for consumers.

　　Amie Street:

Amie Street, which was launched last July, employs a compelling DRM-free music sales model. The band first uploaded its own music, which was then downloaded for free by the user. When the song became popular, Amie Street began charging users a fee that ranged from 0.01 to 0.99 dollars. If the user wants to find the most popular songs, just pay attention to the download price, and if the user prefers adventure, they can try more songs. As a DRM free digital music "free Market", Amie Street may represent the future.

　　Ask City:

This year's list is no longer bloglines, but Ask.com's other asset, the recently launched Ask City, is listed. I personally think that ask City has replaced the Yahoo Map service, to become the best Internet map products. Ask the city most I like the function is the multi-point guidance and annotation tools, users will be forwarded to the map before the friend can mark. Although the introduction of less than one months, but ask City has become one of my favorite Internet applications.

　　BlueDot:

BlueDot is a social bookmarking service similar to the del.icio.us. I have replaced del.icio.us with BlueDot, because I prefer its interface. BlueDot allows users to share bookmarks only among their friends, while del.icio.us only gives users a completely open and fully private choice. BlueDot was launched last July and was upgraded last October.

　　Digg:

Every TechCrunch reader is aware of my attitude to digg. Digg is the future of news, and it is the biggest impact on the mainstream media after blogging. Of course, Digg has to contend with junk information while attracting active users, which is not easy. Anyway, I surf the Digg site every day.

　　Flickr:

There were a number of startups like Flickr in 2006, but it's still a daily picture tag and shared site that I have to use. The many new features Flickr introduces are unbelievable, for example, I like the facial recognition feature.

　　Flock:

As early as August 2005, I became a loyal user of flock. I think that flock can be seen as a complete system, and Firefox still has some compatibility problems. If there is no flock, I will be a happy Firefox user, but the fact is that I will flock as my preferred browser. Sources say that flock will launch an important new version recently.

　　Gmail:

Despite some recent problems, I still think Gmail is the closest to the perfect desktop email application. The reason is simple, it has a large capacity, can label messages, and recently increased support for pop. Of course, the main reason is free.

　　NetNewsWire:

I've been using the NetNewsWire desktop seed reader Since I turned to the Mac platform in early 2006. NetNewsWire is not free, but its high speed and off-line seed access feature makes me feel like paying 30 dollars a month is entirely worth it. Due to the existence of NetNewsWire, Bloglines withdrew from the list this year. Of course, I will probably turn to Google Reader in the future. With EVDO wireless access, offline access is no longer that important, and Google Reader has improved significantly since it was upgraded last September.

　　Netvibes:

I visit netvibes several times a day to quickly explore some important seeds. The number of users in Netvibes is still growing at a high rate, and it has become more powerful since it received 15 million of dollars in funding earlier this year. I suspect that Netvibes is currently resisting acquisitions from other companies, but perhaps by the end of 2007 it will no longer be an independent company.

　　Pandora:

I've been very concerned about Pandora since it was launched in 2005. Maybe I've spent more time listening to music in Pandora than anyone else, because every time I write a blog I use its service. I think there are millions of loyal users who agree with me.

　　Skype:

Since the email, I think Skype is the single most productivity-enhancing product. I've always used Skype as a first-choice instant Messaging tool, using its free call function almost every day. Skype is undoubtedly one of the "killer" apps on the Internet.

　　Techmeme:

Techmeme is the daily journal of the blogosphere and one of the most visited websites. Techmeme's content often appears in the New York Times or other mainstream media in a few days. My father is a loyal user of Techmeme's political website memorandum, and I prefer its tech news area.

　　Wordpress:

I have been using WordPress since the day I created TechCrunch. WordPress is the most flexible blogging platform, and its akismet spam comment filtering service has freed me from nearly 1 million spam comments a day. Without this service, I can only hire a full-time staff to handle the spam reviews.

　　Youtube:

YouTube is not a new company. In November this year, Google has bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars worth of shares. Despite some deficiencies, I am still a loyal user of YouTube.

　　Other companies that are expected to list:

AllOfMP3, Allpeers, Last.fm, Meebo, Wikipedia and Zoho.

English original address: 2007:web 2.0 Companies I couldn ' t Live without