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October 26, 2006

Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites

Web 2.0 sites are cropping up all over the place!  From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today!  What makes a site a Web 2.0 Site?  Web 2.0 is the second coming of World Wide Web. New and improved sites that make the web their platform, provide users a way of interacting with each other, and organize and categorize their content are perfect examples of Web 2.0.  Below is a list of web sites that are the best of the best!  If you would like to see some added to the list, please comment below!

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Social Bookmarking Sites

Software Development Web 2.0

Social Communities

Software Development Web 2.0

Start Pages

Software Development Web 2.0

To Do Lists

Software Development Web 2.0

People News Production

Software Development Web 2.0

News Sites

Software Development Web 2.0

Image Storing and Sharing

Software Development Web 2.0

File Storage

Software Development Web 2.0

Video Storage

Software Development Web 2.0

Blog Filters

Software Development Web 2.0

Word Processing

Software Development Web 2.0

Calanders

Software Development Web 2.0

Classified & Business Directories

Software Development Web 2.0

Online Dating

Software Development Web 2.0

Financials

Software Development Web 2.0

Scientific Research

Web 2.0 Development

Advice

Mobile Web Communities

Software Development Web 2.0

Project Management and Team Collaboration

Software Development Web 2.0

Content Filtering

Software Development Web 2.0

Mash-Ups

Ning

Aggregators

Software Development Web 2.0

Web Site Analytics

Software Development Web 2.0

E-Mail and Communication

Software Development Web 2.0

Mapping

Software Development Web 2.0

Parts

Software Development Web 2.0

World Improvement

Software Development Web 2.0

Business Software

Software Development Web 2.0

Command Line

Software Development Web 2.0

Validator

Jobs and Work

Software Development Web 2.0

Wiki

Software Development Web 2.0

Shopping

Software Development Web 2.0

Search

Trusted Search

Software Development Web 2.0

Real Estate

Software Development Web 2.0

Music

Software Development Web 2.0

Travel

Software Development Web 2.0

Events

Software Development Web 2.0

Education / School Life

Software Development Web 2.0

Art

Software Development Web 2.0

Quotes

Karaoke

Movies

Social Productivity

Ring Tones

Web Site Ranking

Entertainment Recommendations

Mature Content

 

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Hey, I'm soooooo proud that you've chosen to include RSS2PDF among all the GREAT sites and services listed here.

I thank you very, very much for this extreme compliment - you've made my day and stuff like this makes all the hard work pay off!

Tom Churm
Creator, RSS2PDF
http://rss2pdf.com

Hey, I am so glad that Vyew has made it on your list of "Best of Web 2.0." Thanks so much, it is really a generous compliment to us here at Vyew. I hope you will spread the word and continue using Vyew. Thanks again!

How about adding Tripmates to best web 2.0 travel sites- I'm a big fan of their travel social network!

Have you forget about http://www.eioba.com/en ?

Travel: Add Mobissimo.com
It is the largest travel search engine with cool search aps like Activity search, OneBox search, etc.

Thank you for including my site but it is wrongly listed in Todo lists, it should probably be part of the Social Communities section.

I recently found a very interesting website:
http://alreadylinked.com/
There you can purchase ad space for your Blog etc.

Great list! Another good image sharing and storage site is Fotki - http://www.fotki.com/.

Also, forgot to mention Pandora Internet Radio - http://www.pandora.com/. It's a great service.

HELL! where is http://popurls.com?

You should add a category for Poll sites and then list http://www.PollPub.com. PollPub Free Polls let you use youtube, photo, or text content in your free polls. And the polls are ajax. Nice list!

for the World Improvement category you should add http://www.bmindful.com !

Clap, clap, clap ;)

Wow, this is quite a "best of" list, really cuts through all the web 2.0 clutter out there.

Only one comment, sadly I didn't see a porn or adult content category.

Surely the adult entertainment industry has a role in the usergenerated, collaboratively filtered, hyper interactive world of web 2.0? No?

Great list! I've noticed that some of the Web 2.0 sites are starting to use Flash (see http://www.hotsolder.com/2006/10/web-20-flash-sites.html). I wonder if that will be a trend? I personally don't care for flash but these sites do show off some functions that would be a bear to do without it (or something similar like Java).

For notes, Notecentric is a pretty slick looking site.

http://www.notecentric.com

I'm glad to see consumating get some respect. I haven't gone there in months though...

xmlhttprequest.com is a good place for ajax related news.

xmlhttprequest.com/news/

Great work with the list...found a few interesting site already, and I'm just at the beggining.

Just one more thing....The Measuremap link redirects to GMail!

Very cool list!

www.picturepush.com is a very nice image storing site and you should take a look at www.flexlists.com also.

"Really Web 2.0 is the second coming of World Wide Web. New and improved sites that make the web their platform, provide users a way of interacting with each other, and organize and categorize their content are perfect examples of Web 2.0."

Teehee.

a clear winner in the music area http://www.seeqpod.com

Boomtree is a web-based RSS reader with excellent podcast listening support and uses comics for help and intros.

What about http://www.shortText.com/ ?

Awesome site to post quick information and distribute...

One of the better web2 sites in a category you didn't mention (Education) is http://www.mynoteit.com

Thanks for all the feedback! I am busy trying out your suggestions and will post the ones that I find easy to use and fit the web 2.0! Thanks!

Check out Medstory (www.medstory.com). It is a new search engine for health which gives a dashboard of relevant health information for every search.

You should add http://lovetastic.com to the list of dating sites.

I would love to see http://dropster.org under "Image Storing and Sharing".

Gotta love www.instantbull.com for stock message boards / research

SeekSift (http://www.seeksift.com/) is a good service for tracking syndicated data of all kinds (blogs, news, air travel deals, etc.).

You might want to consider adding Value Investing News at http://www.valueinvestingnews.com to the Financials category. Value Investing News is a social bookmarking site for value investing oriented investors. The site just launched a few weeks ago.

You may wish to look into http://Listigator.com a new application that nicely combines general purpose online lists, with neat collaboration features.

Here another great Image Storing and Sharing site: http://www.yourep.com
This one is with revenue sharing and alot off other great features ;)

For the shopping category you gotta have http://shopify.com. It got an honourable mention in the Web 2.0 Awards before it was even released!

You should have included a recipe category, I'd like to nominate my site :) http://www.yournextdrink.com

Great list! Some of my favorites are on there.

One site that I think should be added is http://www.myTriggers.com

It's a new persistent shopping search engine that searches for your products non-stop and sends you alerts when it finds them at your price. I've found the best deals through this site!

Bu.llet.in is a content sharing application which organizes information and people under organization, city and country, collectively called as GEO. Now you can share information and connect with your people so easily.

http://bu.llet.in

Bu.llet.in is a content sharing application which organizes information and people under organization, city and country, collectively called as GEO. Now you can share information and connect with your people so easily.

http://bu.llet.in

Funny.com is quite funny!

http://www.funny.com

James

MailBigFile is a nice way of transferring files too large for e-mail:


http://www.mailbigfile.com/

Another good section to add would be webmaster tools with links to sites such as WebShotsPro which allows webmasters to add a website thumbnails to their page: http://www.webshotspro.com

Nice collection. If you need a full directory of the web2.0 sites try http://semantic.digg.in

Thanks for the links

There's a ton out there. There's also far better (it depends how you look into it). For instance, site's like Flingr are far superior to MySpace.

Why is Myspace on there again? That site is the biggest half-assed approach to social networking, on the entire internet.

Try http://www.structuredfutures.com -- a better way to manage your portfolios

A good shot at a comprehensive list. Certainly could be expanded and updated, but a good start at an extensive compilation!

Another to add would be nifty website www.billmonk.com [BillMonk]. It about 'social money management'. Certainly one of the most useful website that me and my friends have discovered recently. We use it heavily to settle the shared bills and keep track of loans.


Check http://www.offtype.net

It allows to draw online and save the resulting image on the web.

www.oodle.com

BlueTie is barely mentioned in here but I think they could be one of the biggest threats to Google, M$ or Yahoo! The are offering a free AJAX email and calendaring suite for free and supports 20 users per workgroup...

Check out this Digg posting: http://digg.com/tech_news/BlueTie_Launches_Free_Ajax_Email_Suite

You forgot our dating 2.0 site:
http://www.collaboradate.com

Wize, the company I work for, should be included under the Web 2.0 shopping category. Wize collects user and expert reviews, aggregates them, and then based on how positive or negative the reviews were, produces an objective product ranking -Wize Rank. Wize quickly connects users with the best products and saves people time in online research.

An open directory of restaurant info and reviews.

Yumtum http://yumtum.com

Reddiggulo.us has my vote. Replaced about:blank :)

I also like Meebo (www.meebome.com) and Interaction (www.interactionchat.com) for instant messaging.

Hey for file storage http://www.wikiupload.com/ is another great service.

I like www.momondo.com as a travel mashup - searches cheap flights from more than 200 sites. Beats the rest for inter-european flights

Another one for Real Estate, is an Australian site : http://www.suburbview.com

It is an Australian Real Estate Search engine, where found results are displayed in Google Earth and on the Google Map.

http://www.karslist.com/ should be somewhere there... I guess needs a new category.

Don't forgot the health and fitness category:

http://www.gimme20.com

Another one to add for word processing is InetWord, lots of built in extras that aren't available on Google's doc/spreadsheets. www.inetword.com/

Also, the link for Billmonk doesn't have the .com on the end.

This is a great list though. Thanks!

Any site that doesn't mention Streampad: http://www.streampad.com as best of the best for web2.0 doesn't know what it is talking about. I spend hours on this site every day and it is by far the best developed site in the 2.0 world.

Please consider Healia ( http://www.healia.com ), a health search engine that uses semantic technology and algorithms to provide high quality and personalized search results.

Excellent list! I agree with many of them as well, its great to see such innovation and creativity in technology. Its great that we made the list too, thanks. We're working very hard on sugarstats.com to be the best it can.

Nice list! I'm a big fan of http://www.videojug.com for how-to videos... not exactly 'video hosting', maybe 'world improvement'

Hi, thanks for including our free wiki solutions. Could you please correct the typo in the link? it is not "http://www.wikidot." but http://www.wikidot.com

cheers - michal frackowiak

I don't know if they constitute as web2.0 but I have been using: http:/www.whatsonmybookshelf.com to connect with people to trade books.

I'd like to see more sites situated around intellectual interests.

whoops typepad seems to be messing up:

check out "http://whatsonmybookshelf.com"

Hi from Luxembourg !

Thanks a lot for selecting us in this inventory, the beautiful logo of Jamendo, the > 1000 diggs.

--
Laurent from the Jamendo team.

why isn't last.fm filed under music but under People News Production?

check out www.koolim.com

it is similiar to what meebo does.

-Samer

What about www.farecast.com ? It helps people decide when to buy a air ticket and shows nice history graphs and stuff. Its worth a mention I feel. It will tell the user like 'You should wait! We can say this with 80% confidence' etc. Pretty cool and useful, especially if you are traveling around a holiday time -- a day here and there can save $$$!

Great List. You're missing Spiceworks, a web 2.0 IT management tool.

Great list!

Nice list, but you guys really need to check out that thing called Spell Check.

You are missing a new Social Community for relationship advice - YouMe.Us (www.youme.us)

Probably easier if I add the link - http://www.youme.us

BUBBLESHARE is imho the best photosharing site 2.0 ever. No limitations in bandwidth, nor space, and the overall UI is super cool. You can even use it w/out registering!!!!

Revver is another great video hosting platform with the tiwst that we pay creators for their work as well as sharers for sharing their content. We have the most robust and flexible API of any of the video portals - allowing you to create a full video portal accepting user registration, content upload, and playback all from your own site (with your own branding). (For more info, see http://developer.revver.com/)

We also have an incredibly customizable JavaScript widget that people have made entire sites with.

Video quality is also orders of magnitude better than most of the others on the list.

http://www.revver.com/

Thinker Labs (www.thinkerlabs.ca) is a great open source media project for video, art etc where you can post your own videos and download others at high quality, and for art download psd files etc etc.

Great list and thanks for the recognition! Only one small problem :-( you forgot the .com at the end of our url when you posted our link.

http://www.project360.com

Germanys biggest social bookmarking service:

http://www.mister-wong.de

I think a link to http://www.billster.net/ is called for (Under Finance tools)- it's a new sexy site used to organize your money and help sort out your lazy roommates by tracking the cash they always owe you for bills :)

Thank you for adding our servicde in your list, but there is one small problem. You forgot the .com at the end of our URL. www.project360.com, Thanks

You forgot http://www.bakespace.com in your list of social-networking sites.

CNet's Chow claims it's "tastier than Friendster & MySpace" and Imediaconnection lists it as one of the "most popular, up-and-coming social networks sites" out there. They are definitely taking a bite out of the MySpace market.

Check out www.myfabrik.com - combining the best features and capabilities of media sharing and file storage services in one. The service includes powerful tools to manage, organize & generally deal with a large number of files (10's of thousands +). Worth a look and a try!!!

Video Storage www.sevenload.com

For video I second the comments about www.revver.com. Also, there's VEOH.

On the music front, did I miss last.fm? Last.fm, mog, goombah, haystack... the list grows daily.

Also, check out OnTour ( www.ontour.net) to match up your music library with concert tour dates and stay on top of who's coming to town.

I'd also add to the list www.kSolo.com, an online karaoke site. Karaoke isn't my thing, but it works for a lot of people. kSolo let's karaoke fans perform, listen, and share online. Plus users can post their "ksolo" performances on their websites.

In finances category, check out Blinksale.com and their online invoice service.

And I'm not sure if this fits the criteria here, but ChangeThis.com, with it's unique collection of manifestos, is an engaging resource of ideas, opinions and "white papers" on a variety of topics. Maybe file under World Improvement.

Why is diggdot.us under People News Production?

It's an aggregator.

I can't believe BubbleShare is not mentioned. It's super easy to use, and doesn't even require registration. It should have taken the crown; the best by a mile.

You are missing at least one important startup... CollectiveX.

What is CollectiveX? - if you didn't already know...

CollectiveX is a web-based software platform that enables any individual or organization to quickly and easily setup a private website for collaborating and networking within a group.

I think Content Pop (http://www.contentpop.com) was released after this list was compiled, but is a great resource to submit your latest and greatest pieces of content. Also, you can create your own communities and place free web community ads back to your website for promotion.

Why have you not mentioned the excellent sites
DIIGO and ThinkFree ????

Excellent list, I don't think I've seen a list as comprehensive or well laid out.

I have a suggestion though, it's an art project where people from around the world can collaborate and make artworks in real time.

http://www.thebroth.com/

Although I'm not quite sure which category it would be best under...

Good list of sites. However, I have some suggestions for additions to your list.

http://www.myadsource.com/
Created to give publishers the ability to provide an online marketplace where consumers can search online ads, as well as, all print classified ads.

http://www.tooeleads.com/
Example of a MyAdSource site.

http://www.matchbin.com/corp/index.html
Providing community focused, globally connected marketplaces through an innovative patent pending technology.

http://www.worldwidemega.com/
Example of a Matchbin.com Site

How about http://www.14dayz.com for Project Management and Team Colaboration or Business Software?

Great list, and thanks very much for including our online invoicing service in the "Business Software" category.

Just wanted to let you know that 2ndSite was renamed and we have a new web site: http://www.FreshBooks.com

Great list! I have one suggestion for an addition to the list (albeit a self-interested one) - wine communities. Sites like OpenBottles (http://www.openbottles.com), Cork'd and TastyDrop are bringing together people from all around the world and helping them share information and recommendations about wine. It's making a real difference in the way people research and buy wine. Thanks for the consideration.

The new kid in the Start Pages town:
Excite MIX
http://mix.excite.co.uk
http://mix.excite.it

SpeedyTV.com also has streaming movie and TV excerpts.

Missing in Travel is http://www.momondo.com a mashup site/meta search engine that searches cheap flights across +200 websites.