Web 2.0 Companies

July 24, 2007 2:20 AM

Websites/blogs that discuss popular or up-and-coming Web 2.0 companies?

I read Lifehacker and Download Squad, places that introduce me to new and interesting Web 2.0 sites frequently. While they do offer the information I am interested in, I'd like to go one step further and seek out a website that discusses nothing but Web 2.0 companies.

So my question is this: Are there any websites or blogs that exclusively discuss popular or up-and-coming Web 2.0 companies, such as Yoono, Clipmarks & pownce?

I welcome all suggestions! Another Lifehacker/Lifehack would be fantastic tho not Web 2.0 exclusive.

posted by Sufi to Computers & Internet (17 answers total)

Techcrunch.
posted by Leon at 2:33 AM on July 24, 2007

DemoMarks stopped updating in April, looks like, but is otherwise a decent place for reviewing Web 2.0 applications.
posted by chrominance at 2:38 AM on July 24, 2007

Mashable, which is social-networking specific, and GigaOm are both worth a look.

For something on the humorous site, uncov is an anti-Web 2.0 site that can be very funny. It's a little inconsistent but is useful at cutting through PR BS.
posted by ukdanae at 3:08 AM on July 24, 2007

TechMeme, TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, O'Reilly Radar, eHub, MicroPersuasion. Also Listio, Go2Web20 and the RSS feeds for the relevant tags on del.icio.us (e.g. http://del.icio.us/popular/web20).
posted by Herr Fahrstuhl at 3:23 AM on July 24, 2007

I'd recommend Uncov for the other side of the dot com boom 2.0.
posted by jedrek at 3:57 AM on July 24, 2007

Wow, uncov is awesome! Do you know any more sites up (or down) that alley, as opposed to the big guys listed above.

Don't get me wrong, the big guys are good, but it seems like many of them have gotten lazy and they do a lot of tail-chasing (let's all link to the same thing and toss is a smudge of insight!) and everyone kisses their asses.
posted by ejoey at 4:47 AM on July 24, 2007

My Google Reader feeds tagged as lifehack:

http://www.lifehacker.com
http://www.lifehack.org
http://www.43folders.com
http://www.dumblittleman.com
http://ririanproject.com
http://zenhabits.net
http://www.urbanmonk.net
posted by charmston at 5:25 AM on July 24, 2007

TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb are undoubtedly the largest, pure Web 2.0 feature blogs.
posted by wackybrit at 6:00 AM on July 24, 2007

I used to check out museum of modern betas pretty frequently and it should still be around.
posted by ejaned8 at 7:30 AM on July 24, 2007

Great sites above for insight, but if you're looking for straight, comprehensive coverage, check out Emily Chang's eHub and MoMB - between those two sites, you'll hardly miss any new Web 2.0 site of note.
posted by lubujackson at 7:32 AM on July 24, 2007

ejoey: You'll probably love ValleyWag.
posted by lubujackson at 7:33 AM on July 24, 2007

Great question, great answers. I didn't know about a single one of these.
posted by devilsbrigade at 8:10 AM on July 24, 2007

EVERYTHING 2.0
posted by mattbucher at 8:44 AM on July 24, 2007

GrandCentral is pretty awesome.
posted by bradbane at 10:03 AM on July 24, 2007

Webware
posted by euphorb at 7:12 PM on July 24, 2007

Rev2.org.
posted by Locative at 11:28 PM on July 24, 2007

Response by poster: Thanks guys, these are exactly what I was looking for!
posted by Sufi at 1:52 AM on July 26, 2007