New start-up stars
Web 2.0
Upstartle/Writely
• Internet browser-based tools of word
processing
• It enables online creation of documents,
opens them to collaboration by anyone
anywhere, and simplifies publishing the
end result on a website as a blog entry
• www.writerly.com
83degrees
• A online center of exchanging calendar
• This Web-based software allows families and
groups to create private social networks,
organize events, track schedules, and share
photos; it may soon allow you to save phone
numbers as hyperlinks and make calls by simply
clicking on a link.
• www.30boxes.com
• The former founder of webshot
JotSpot
• Online spreadsheet
• A pioneer of Web collaboration apps, a.k.a.
wikis (collaborative writing), it has unveiled
its new Tracker application, which provides
a powerful, highly collaborative online
spreadsheet.
37Signals
• Online project management
• Its Basecamp app, elegant and
inexpensive, enables the creation, sharing,
and tracking of to-do lists, files,
performance milestones, and other key
project metrics; related app Backpack,
recently released, is a powerful online
organizer for individuals
Zimbra
• Online email/message aggregating
software
• Taking aim at Microsoft Outlook, its Ajaxbased application can, among other things,
bring up your calendar for any date your
mouse encounters, launch Skype for any
phone number, or retrieve a Google map
for any address
Brightcove
• Internet TV distributor
• It's creating a video-distribution platform
over the Web for producers large and
small
YouTube
• Exchange center of self-prepared videos
• This site lets people upload, watch, and
share millions of video clips. All videos are
converted to Flash (a Web-tailored format
for graphics and video), making them easy
to import into blogs or webpages.
• www.youtube.com
Wikipedia
• Internet based encyclopedia composed by
collaborative writing of the world-widely
distributed specialists
• www.wikipedia.org
Craigslist
• Just post-it, an information center
• A site of community
• www.craigslist.org
Digg
• A site of news aggregator
• News items with the most votes make the
homepage
• www.digg.com
Last.fm
• a personalized streaming radio station
based on the digital music you already
listen to,
• shares your playlist on the Web, and
suggests music from other closely related
playlists
• www.last.fm.uk
Newsvine
• A site of collaborative publisher
• Readers vote and comment on stories but
can also organize their own pages and
write their own stories
Myspace
• A community for collective music
composition and performance
• www.myspace.com
Tagworld
• With cutting-edge Web software enabling
blogs, photo and music sharing, online
dating, and more, members confront a rich
smorgasbord of ways to interact, and
everything can be tagged for easy
searching.
Six Apart
• Blogging tools
• The company helped kick off and sustain
the Next Net with its Moveable Type
blogging software and TypePad blogging
service.
Bloglines
• Online feed reader
• The site collects blogs and news from all
over the Web and presents it in one
consistent, updated, multifeed mashup
Eurekster
• A search mashup
• This do-it-yourself search engine, or swicki,
allows you to define sites you want to
search, post the results on your blog or
website, and get a cut of any search ads
your audience clicks on.
Odeo
• A site of podcasting, by using a multimedia
software, AudioBlogger, to aggregate
media on the browser
• www.odeo.com
SimpleFeed
• A tool of opt-in RSS marketing
• By allowing RSS feeds to be customized
to the desires of each recipient and
tracked individually, the site makes such
feeds a powerful marketing tool
Flickr
• An Internet-based media tool
• www.flickr.com
Simply Hired
• A job search engine
• It searches nearly 4.5 million listings on
other job and corporate sites; subscribers
receive an RSS feed or e-mail alert when
a job that meets their parameters pops up.
Jigsaw
• Business contact management
• In exchange for their own contact lists,
salespeople use this site to access a
virtual Rolodex of managers at nearly
150,000 companies
Salesforce.com
• Platform for online enterprise software
• It pioneered Web-based software and is
trying to become a marketplace and host
for other online apps through its
AppExchange.
Technorati
• Blog search engine
• The site filters the almost 30 million
existing blogs, shows how many other
blogs link to a particular post, and can
rank blogs by topic
Trulia
• A site of real estate mashup
• Combining home listings from agents'
websites with Google Maps
Wine
• A site of tag search engine
• By searching user-generated tags on sites
like Del.icio.us and Digg
• Wink filters the Web so users can sort
links into different collections and add their
own tags and bookmarks.
Fonality
• Open source telephony software
• It sells a $1,000 box that allows a PC to
use open-source software to mimic a PBX
system that costs five times as much
SIPphone
• Internet phone software
• Its Gizmo Project application allows free
PC-to-PC calls, cheap PC-to-phone calls,
and sound effects
Iotum
• Presence management software
• With its app, users will be able to control
where and when they receive voice or text
data, routing calls to their phones, e-mail,
or RSS feed-and blocking calls from, say,
creditors.
Vivox
• Peer-to-peer voice technology
• Its service integrates voice, video,
messaging, and social-networking
capabilities into existing data networks
Wretch
• 無名小站, blog service provider
• http://www.wretch.cc/
Baidu
• Chinese search engine and portal
• www.baidu.com
Taobao
• A Chinese-based online auction site
• Deterrence from the invasion of eBay.cn
• www.taobao.com
Toodou
• 土豆網
• A site of media podcasting
• www.toodou.com