The Next Big Web Thing Hall Of Internet Shame

The Shortlist From Which The 25 Sites Came

By David Lloyd: September 20th 2006

In making the preceedng list of 25 sites, I actually looked at an condsidered a couple of thousand sites that I've seen in the last year. The initial shortlist from the overall mass of site is reapeated here for your entertainment - along with an exceedingly short description of what they do.

PS. If there's typos on this page then sorry, but there's no way I'm firing up the spellchecker here...

  1. 14 Dayz - Time management
  2. 9 Cays - Email groups
  3. Abazab - Picture & video editing
  4. Adoppt - Community blogging
  5. Adveracio.us - Digg alike - not even a word
  6. Asoboo - Japanese for 'Let's Have Fun!'
  7. Avvenu - Remote access
  8. Az.To - RSS aggregator
  9. Askeet - Questions site
  10. aNobii - Booklist sharing
  11. Bibli.ca - Publish and share
  12. Biznik - Business
  13. Blogniscient - Blog digg alike
  14. Blogr - Blogging
  15. BookRevyoo - Review site
  16. Buttonator - Make buttons
  17. Calcr - Calculator
  18. Cooqy - Ebay search
  19. Complore - Social collaboration
  20. Commentful - Comment watching
  21. Connotea - Management tool
  22. Chuqet - Hot blog topics
  23. Dandelife - Biography networking
  24. Decipho - Search beta
  25. Docly - Wordprocessing
  26. Diigo - Bookmarks and recomendations
  27. Empressr - Flash based PowerPoints
  28. Enquisite - Marketing
  29. Eurekster - Wisdom of crowds
  30. Factorio.us - Cafepress style tools
  31. Fantacular - Digg alike
  32. Faqqly - Social networking
  33. Favoor - Personalized start page
  34. Findory - News collations
  35. Fixya - Consumer support advice
  36. Flagr - Social networking
  37. Flucid - Ideas around web 2.0
  38. Flukiest - Contacts
  39. Fluxiom - Online data storage
  40. Frappr - Mapping mashups
  41. Gabbly - Colaboration tool
  42. Gibbity - Game discovery
  43. Gnoos - Technorati like
  44. Goosto - Reciepe search
  45. Gliffy - Drawing and diagram sharing
  46. Grou.ps - Social groupware innovator?
  47. Grupthink - Answers & Digg mashup
  48. Gpokr.com - Social networking poker mashup
  49. Implendid - Online presentations
  50. Jamendo - Music sharing
  51. Jookster - Social networking
  52. Kosmix - Search engine
  53. Kraytiv - Creative Directory
  54. Kulist - Shopping lists
  55. Lingr - Chat
  56. Loowa - Social networking
  57. Ma.gnolia - Share websites
  58. Meebo - IM thingy, silly wwwm?
  59. MochiMention - Site commenting
  60. Mo.neytrack.in - Money stuff - add a ' after the domain
  61. Mon.itor.us - Website monitoring
  62. Moqvo - RSS / NEws aggregator
  63. Mytago - Tagging
  64. Naymz - Online profiles
  65. Neave TV - Video mashup
  66. Novoo - Homepage editor
  67. Nowsy - Online news aggregator
  68. Numly - DRM management (Yuck)
  69. Opsdo - tags and stuff
  70. Oyogi - Questions and answers
  71. Peekko - Chat FireFox plugin
  72. Pheedo - Feeds
  73. Phanfare - Online photo and video
  74. Picsir - Gallery builder
  75. Platial - Mapping
  76. Plurn - Playlists
  77. PolloO - Polling
  78. Posticky - Online stickies
  79. Putfwd - File sending
  80. Pytagor - Virtual desktop
  81. QoolSqool - Educational resources
  82. Qube - Search
  83. Quomon - Knowledge sharing
  84. Quimble - Polls
  85. Qumana - Blog editor
  86. Qunu - Expertise matching
  87. Rasasa - Gossip via RSS
  88. Renkoo - Social networking
  89. Rminder - Tasks
  90. Schoopy - School organiser
  91. Schtuff - Wikipedia thingy
  92. Slawsome - Voice emailing
  93. Snippit - Text notes
  94. Soo - URL shortening
  95. Sperocite - Spirtual Digg alike
  96. Sponit - Group blog
  97. Squeet - RSS reader
  98. Sxip - Multiple login tool
  99. Taggly - Social bookmarking
  100. Talkety - Mobiles service
  101. Tezaa - Sharing opinions
  102. Thoos - Social network for athletes
  103. Thumblicio.us - Thumbs
  104. Tiggdo - Web to phone
  105. Toggl - Time management
  106. Twttr - Twitter or twatter - you decide *note* redirects to twitter.com, someone smelled the coffee.
  107. Ulinkx - Media search
  108. Viddler - Video share
  109. Vimeo - Video flickr like
  110. Vyew - Collaboration tool
  111. Vcarious - Travel guides
  112. Writely - Word processor
  113. Xcellery - Spreadsheets
  114. Xuqa - Social bookmarking
  115. YurNet - Searching
  116. Zingee - File sharing
  117. Zixxo - Coupon creation
  118. Zoomf - Property search
  119. Zvents - Local listing search
  120. Zyb - Back-up data

By David Lloyd: September 18th 2006

Page 1 - Numbers 25 - 21
Page 2 - Numbers 20 - 11
Page 3 - Numbers 10 - 01
Page 4 - The shortlist

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