June 19th, 2007, 2 Comments »
As you may know, Webware has been running this big ‘best of Web 2.0 applications’ competition over the past month or so. Yesterday, they announced the winners.
I was curious to browse through the winners (all 100 of them, which seems a tad excessive), and learn about those I hadn’t heard of before:
- Cha Cha - Human assisted search (you chat with an apparent search expert who helps you find what you’re looking for).
- Gaia Online - Online community and MMPORG for teens. Interestingly, at the moment, they have about two-thirds the number of users online that Second Life does, or did at this time yesterday (21K compared to 35K).
- Stardoll - Dress up avatars–virtual version of the old paper doll kits. Popular, presumably, with the pre-teen and teen girls (and, no doubt, a few adults recapturing the dress-up days of yore).
- Revision3 - Hosts a bunch of online shows, most notably Diggnation.
- PollDaddy - Free polls for your blog or social network profile.
UPDATE: On a unrelated note, here’s 25 more web apps, many of which I hadn’t heard of. I immediately gravitated to BuzzDash and Swivel for the cool charts.
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June 12th, 2007, 2 Comments »
I was reminded that I’ve yet to announce the winners in the survey I ran way back before Northern Voice. I apologize for this–it’s no excuse, but it’s been a crazily busy four months. So, with no further ado, here are the winners (using my wife as a random number generator).
- Alison wins the iPod Shuffle.
- Nitesh was going to win two books I had from Lonely Planet. Unfortunately, they’re back in a box in Canada, so they’re going to get a $50 Lonely Planet gift certificate.
- John gets the $50 Amazon or iTunes gift certificate for being ranked 42nd (Julie’s choice again) in people linking to the survey.
In the case of Alison and Nitesh, I don’t want to be more specific about who they are until I contact them and get their permission. So, apologies to any other Alisons or Niteshes out there who I’ll later have to disappoint.
A couple of people have also asked about the results data. I do plan to release it–I’ve just been going through it to try to anonymize any delicate bits and remove any links. I indicated when I ran the survey that the results would be published, but I think better safe than sorry here. The cleaning up process has taken longer than expected (and often gets shunted down the work list by more pressing tasks), but I’m getting there.
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