2007 Web 2.0 Awards
Well, SEOmoz's 2007 Web 2.0 Awards have been out for a couple of weeks now. All the usual suspects are there such as technorati, bloglines, magnolia, furl, yahoo! local, craigslist, google docs, feedburner, 43 things, google maps, frappr, ning, flickr, picasa, linked in, digg, del.icio.us, pageflakes, and of course, YouTube. As you can see, there are quite a few google and yahoo! services in the mix. If you have a look at all the awards, you will find even more google and yahoo! services. What surprised me was the number of 'same old same old' in the list. Some of these have been around for quite a long time now and perhaps are just part of the fabric - we really depend on them and use them all the time. If you have a look at the criteria by which they are measured (usability, usefulness, social aspects, interface and design, content quality) it is easy to see why they are there (again). Since there are 'over 200 sites in 41 categories' there is a lot to look at so quite a bit of time and effort must go into producing these awards. It's really worth checking them out and seeing if you can find something that works for you. Here's a few interesting ones:
- donors choose - teachers submitting ideas for funding
- be Green - highly topical at the moment - look at the carbon calculator
- a couple of interesting hosted wikis (wetpaint, pbwiki) - check out the student/teacher example in pbwiki
- twitter - my views here
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