Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Real Estate - Web 2.0

Real Estate

* Tied for 1st Place Propsmart propsmart.com

A "next-generation" real estate search engine and online community, Propsmart has indexed nearly 1 million homes and other properties for sale in major cities across the US. Search or browse by location to see properties on a google map and sort by details. Sign up as member to rate, save, comment on, and add properties.

“The popping of the Web 1.0 "bubble" was just a speedbump in the internet's baby-step stages - we got ahead of ourselves, our users, and our connections speeds, and predictably tripped up. But now the users are ready and the pipes are smokin' fast, and we're really putting the Web to work in some amazingly useful ways.” Read our interview with Ron Hornbaker of Propsmart
o Usability: 9 / 10
o Usefulness: 9 / 10
o Social Aspects: 7 / 10
o Interface & Design: 8 / 10
o Content Quality: 8 / 10

* Tied for 1st Place Zillow zillow.com

Free, instant valuations and data for 60,000,000+ homes. Compare home values in areas of interest to track the value of your home, avoid paying too much when buying, or estimate a good selling price.

“Zillow.com was created to empower people with tools and information to transform the way they buy and sell homes. More specifically, we think you shouldn't need a computer science degree or a real estate license to figure out what your home is worth, or keep track of it.” Read our interview with Amy Bohutinsky of Zillow
o Usability: 10 / 10
o Usefulness: 10 / 10
o Social Aspects: 0 / 10
o Interface & Design: 10 / 10
o Content Quality: 10 / 10

* Trulia trulia.com

Real estate search in major CA cities (& now NY). Find listings on a map with options for price range, bedrooms, bathrooms, Sq. ft., and type. See photos of all properties in an area, browse by neighborhood, and get average home prices for a region.
o Usability: 9 / 10
o Usefulness: 10 / 10
o Social Aspects: 0 / 10
o Interface & Design: 7 / 10
o Content Quality: 8 / 10


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Monday, July 24, 2006

Everything Web 2.0

Everything Web 2.0

by Bob Stumpel, et al

AUDIO 2.0

BLOG2POD 2.0

BLOGGING 2.0

BOOKMARKING 2.0

BROWSER 2.0

CALENDAR 2.0

CHAT 2.0

COLLABORATION 2.0

COLLECT 2.0

COMIX 2.0

COMMUNICATION 2.0

COMMUNITY 2.0

CRM 2.0

DBASE 2.0

DESIGN 2.0

DICTIONARY 2.0

ECOMMERCE 2.0

ECONOMY 2.0

E-LEARNING 2.0

EMAIL 2.0

FILESHARING 2.0

FINANCIALS 2.0

FUN 2.0

GAMBLING 2.0

GAMES 2.0

HOSTING 2.0

IDENTITY 2.0

IMAGES 2.0

IMAGING 2.0

JOBS 2.0

KNOWLEDGE 2.0

LISTS 2.0

MAPPING 2.0

MARKETING 2.0

MEMO 2.0

MULTIMEDIA 2.0

NEWS 2.0

OFFICE 2.0

OS 2.0

OUTLOOK 2.0

PERSONAL MANUFACTURING 2.0

POLLS 2.0

PORN 2.0

PORTAL 2.0

POWERPOINT 2.0

PROJECTS 2.0

PUBLISHING 2.0

READ 2.0

RSS 2.0

SCHEDULING 2.0

SEARCH 2.0

SOFTWARE 2.0

STATS 2.0

TAGGING 2.0

TASK MANAGER 2.0

TEXT 2.0

TEXT2SPEECH 2.0

TIME MANAGEMENT 2.0

TRACK & TRACE 2.0

VIDEO 2.0

VOICE2MAIL

VOICEMAIL 2.0

WEB2FEED

WI-FI 2.0

  • Fon - Share, buy, sell wi-fi connections. www.fon.com

WIKI 2.0

WISHLIST 2.0

WORD 2.0

WRITE 2.0

[ The italicized entries are ones which I added or “fixed” — cgm ]

Peer Production News

Category: Peer Production News

Best Offering: digg



Description:
While not packed with Ajax, digg frankly doesn't lack for it. And of course, Ajax is only one of many optional ingredients on the Web 2.0 checklist. The important Web 2.0 capability digg provides is that it successfully harnesses collective intelligence. All news items listed in digg are supplied by its users which then exert editorial control by clicking on the digg button for each story they like. The home page lists the most popular current stories, all selected by its registered users. And digg's RSS feed has to be one of the most popular on the Web. Digg has been so successful that Wired magazine has even speculated it could bury Slashdot, which also allows users to submit stories, but doesn't let them see what stories were submitted or vote on them.

Runners-Up:

Online To Do Lists - voo2do

there's too much worth doing—choose wisely.
advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals

You need voo2do.

  • organize tasks by project
  • track time spent and remaining
  • add tasks by email
  • publish task lists new
  • as easy as paper, but on the web 24x7
  • supports software guru Joel Spolsky's Painless Software Scheduling method
  • fancy-shmancy “ajax” interface
  • API for custom applications
  • improved personal productivity

The Best Web 2.0 Software

Category: Social Bookmarking

Best Offering: del.icio.us

del.icio.us

Description: Just acquired by Yahoo!, which already has a social bookmarking service called My Web 2.0, the exact future of this seminal bookmarking site is now a little up in the air. But
del.icio.us remains the best, largest, fastest, and most elegant social bookmarking service on the Web. In fact, del.icio.us is the benchmark that all others use. And because del.icio.us appears to take the Web 2.0 ideas pretty seriously, they provide a nice API for others to build new services on top of. As a consequence of this, and because social bookmarking sites makes everyone's data public, witness the amazing array of add-on services (or if you have 15 minutes to spare, look here) that mash-up or otherwise reuse del.icio.us functionality and content. If you want access to your bookmarks anywhere you go along with engaging and satisfying functionality, this is your first stop. I personally can't live without my tag cloud of del.icio.us bookmarks.

Runners-Up
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http://www.web20workgroup.com/

The Web 2.0 Workgroup is a network of premium weblogs that write content about the new generation of the Web. Combined, these sites reach a large readership of influential technology and media professionals. If you would like to subscribe to all of these blogs, download and import the OPML file into your favorite RSS reader. NEW! Check out an OPML mash-up of the Workgroup, by J Wynia using our OPML file plus the Yahoo Search API.

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Discover movies with People - Spout

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What's Spout?

Spout's a website and a store. It’s a community. It's a hot spot for opinions. Most of all, it’s the best place to find films you really want to watch.


Web 2.0 Media

Web 2.0 Journal
- Not quite web 2.o Style but has all different kind of resources.

Web 2.0 Explorer
-Tales from the Web 2.0 Frontier Written by Richard MacManus, specializing in Web 2.0, RSS and social media

What's Web 2.0
-We're passionate about Web 2.0. We think it's going to enable a whole bunch of cool new things that we can't even imagine yet. This site is a resource for the evolving space of Web 2.0.

TechCrunch


About TechCrunch

TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the web 2.0 space. TechCrunch is edited by Michael Arrington, who also writes a companion blog, CrunchNotes.

TechCrunch is featured on the Technorati 100, Feedster 500, CNet Top 100 Blogs and is a member of the Web 2.0 WorkGroup. TechCrunch was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal online and print editions on December 7, 2005, and in the San Jose Mercury News online and print editions on January 15, 2006.

What is the “web 2.0″? There are entire websites dedicated to trying to define it succinctly. Here is Wikipedia’s entry on web 2.0. I think of web 2.0 as the inevitable evolution of the web from a read-mostly medium to a read-write, or two-way medium (think geocities v. weblogs). Web 1.0 was static html pages. Web 2.0 is dynamic and interactive, and more fully exploits network effects. Web2.0 applications leverage key new web application frameworks like Ruby on Rails and AJAX.

We are seeing the separation of content from its old forms. Text is no longer necessarily embedded in a web page, it can be syndicated through RSS or ATOM. Audio is no longer tied to the radio network. It can be Podcast or streamed or downloaded. TV shows are no longer necessarily tied to TV Networks. They can be delivered on demand across IP networks. And so on. These trends throw many business models into question. New companies are being created to leverage these trends. We will profile them here.

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