Friday, February 23

The Next YouTube?

Business 2.0 posted their 2nd annual Next Net 25 yesterday, which they describe as "the Web 2.0 wannabes most likely to break out of the pack." Interesting stuff, but I decided the information would be easier to compare if in spreadsheet format.

Since I hadn't heard of this list last year, I looked back and then decided to measure Business 2.0's predictive prowess based on the change in Alexa rank of each site they included in the 2006 list...



Definitely some clear winners (YouTube) & losers, as well as an inexplicable jump for many of the sites in mid-April? Last year's list was released on March 3rd, but the Internets isn't famous for moving slowly.

Each link below will take you to Alexa chart (like the Social Media one above) that compares the 5 sites highlighted in each of the 5 groups Business 2.0 defined...

Social Media: Digg, Last.fm, Newsvine, Tagworld, YouTube
Mashup & Filters: Bloglines, Eurekster, Simply Hired, Technorati, Trulia, Wink
The New Phone: Fonality, SIPphone, Iotum, Vivox, Skype
The Webtop: JotSpot, 30Boxes, 37Signals, Writely, Zimbra
Under The Hood: Brightcove, Jigsaw, Simplefeed, Salesforce, Six Apart

Labels: data, web

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