You Tube may have been the Web phenomenon of 2006, but NPR asks, what’s hot for 2007?
Melissa Block talks with Danah Boyd, PhD candidate at UC-Berkeley in the School of Information and graduate fellow at the USC Annenberg Center, Erin Ali, a blogger and game-development student and Hiawatha Bray, technology reporter for The Boston Globe.
Their picks? Wikimapia, Carbonite, Digg and Pandora.
Michael Arrington lists 2007: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without. Some of the lesser known include;
- 800-Free-411 has saved me a serious amount of cash this last year. Consumers, usually have to pay up to $3.50 per 411 call today.
- Amie Street a brilliant DRM-free music sales model.
- Ask City has replaced Yahoo Maps as the best mapping product on the Internet.
- BlueDot a social bookmarking service that is similar to del.icio.us.
- Flock I use it as my primary browser.
- NetNewsWire I’ve used NewsGator’s NetNewsWire desktop feed reader from the moment I switched to a Mac in early 2006.
- TechMeme is the blogosphere’s daily newspaper
- Wordpress the most flexible blogging platform
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