Web - Web 2.0 winners and stinkers

This article is good for getting an idea of what is out there in terms of web 2.0 design, the good and the bad sites, quick reference, this list was complied while I was coordinating the Swinburne National Institute of Design Research NIDR masters of multimedia design course.

From the Blog
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites

Wednesday, 6 September 2006
Web 2.0 Champions and Stinkers: The People's Choice
Topic: Web 2.0

Last week, we asked all of our readers to submit their votes for the best Web 2.0 sites -- the sites and services they use every day that they couldn't live without. We also asked for submissions along opposite lines -- Which Web 2.0 apps must die a quick and painless death?

The votes are in. What follows is a list of all of the apps that received more than one vote. We'll analyze this list in depth as the week goes on, and I'll offer my own take on the best and worst of Web 2.0 in the next two days.

So, according to Wired News readers, in order of awesomeness/suckiness:

Champs

Flickr  http://www.flickr.com/
del.icio.us   http://del.icio.us/
Local.Live.com   http://local.live.com/
GMail   http://mail.google.com/
Google Calendar   http://calendar.google.com/
Google Spreadsheets   http://spreadsheets.google.com/
Digg   http://www.digg.com/
YouTube   http://www.youtube.com/
Yelp   http://www.yelp.com/
Blinklist   http://www.blinklist.com/
Bloglines   http://www.bloglines.com/
Basecamp   http://www.basecamphq.com/
Writely   http://www.writely.com/
Dimewise    http://www.dimewise.com/
Kayak   http://www.kayak.com/
Spurl   http://www.spurl.net/
LibraryThing   http://www.librarything.com/
Last.fm   http://last.fm/
NetVibes   http://www.netvibes.com/

Stinkers

MySpace   http://www.myspace.com/
Friendster   http://www.friendster.com/
Orkut   http://www.orkut.com/
del.icio.us   http://del.icio.us/
Google Spreadsheets   http://spreadsheets.google.com/
YouTube   http://www.youtube.com/
Goowy   http://www.goowy.com/
LinkedIn    http://www.linkedin.com/
de.lirio.us   http://de.lirio.us/
fo.rtuito.us   http://fo.rtuito.us/
Classmates   http://www.classmates.com/

There were also many notable sites, such as Meebo http://www29.meebo.com/ , Mint http://www.haveamint.com/ , Shopify http://shopify.com/  and Traineo http://traineo.com/ , that only receieved one vote. We'll be sure to take a look at these as we compile our own list.

[pic by wakalani, via flickr]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakalani/113300336/