Sunday, June 24, 2007

Best 100 Web 2.0 sites

According to Webware, these are the top 100 Web 2.0 web sites as voted by the community of Webware users.

Let's see if the ones I use are on the list.

For browsing, I use primarily Firefox, not very often IE (unless for some reason I can't run the site in Firefox and I HAVE to resort to using IE). I also use My Yahoo that's where I store by bookmarks using My Yahoo Web 2.0 beta. That's pretty much about it, the rest on the list I don't use.

For communications, for e-mail I use Google GMail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. For messenging, I use Windows Live Messenger and sometimes Yahoo Messenger, I used to use Trillian a while ago but I don't really use any more because it doesn't support some of the native functions that the IM clients have (like sharing and transferring files). Though, I've never tried the new Trillian, so it might have been fixed now. For voice, I almost exclusively use Skype. Meebo, I've tried it but I wasn't successful to connect Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger contacts and I kind of gave up on that service.

For community, I primarily use Facebook and also Digg, sometimes occasionally Friendster (although not very much anymore). I use a lot of LinkedIn and I have a MySpace account but I really never use it.

For data, I primarily use Google, sometimes Windows Live search and Yahoo search but almost Google. I also use YouSendIt for sending files greater than 10 MB. I sometimes use BitTorrent but not as much.

For entertainment, I don't use any of those tools mentioned in the Webware top 10 list.

For media, I use Flickr and YouTube, sometimes a little bit of Yahoo Video if I want to view video that is within a Yahoo news link. I use Microsoft Soapbox for viewing videos and also Sony Imagestation for uploading photos, but I don't see that in the Webware list.

For mobile, I don't use any of the mobile apps on my cell phone because they cost money! And I'm already paying enough with the voice plan I have now so I see no need for paying for more.

For productivity and commerce, I use craigslist to look for any items on sale or if I want to put up something for sale, sometimes eBay, but mostly Google calendar and now exclusively Google Docs and Spreadsheets (which work great for sharing documents with a team).

For publishing, I use Blogger (as I'm writing this blog entry now in), WordPress (for my research lab's blogs), and Feedburner for making feeds. I also use WikiMedia for making wikis but I don't see that in the list.

For reference, I use Google Maps almost exclusively to find a place or how to get to somewhere, and WikiPedia as my online encyclopedia. I've tried Yahoo Local before but not too often now.

So, what do all of you use for the categories mentioned above, do you use the ones that are on the Webware 100 list?

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