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2/20/2006


Web 2.0 Wars: Round 7

It's time for Round 7 in Newsome.Org's Web 2.0 Wars. The contestants and rules are here.

Prior Rounds: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Here are the contestants for Round 7:

Jotspot
Frappr
Jeteye
Dabble db
Yedda
Writeboard
Shoutwire
iKarma
Kanoodle
Airset

Jotspot is a wiki host and creation service. It allows the creation of personal or corporate wikis that can be used as a de facto intranet. Prices range from $10 a month to $200 a month.

Frappr is an online tool that lets you map out the city where you live, work, vacation, or anything else! You can then share your Frappr page with friends. You can also share photos, private message them, or leave comments on their MyFrappr homepage.

Jeteye lets you save links, images and notes in what it calls a jetpak. Jetpacks hold and help organize your important links and data. Nice idea, but a crowded field.

Dabble db is another information manager. It's not yet live.

Yedda is an expert driven knowledge base, similar to Yahoo Answers. It's not live yet either.

Writeboard is an online application that allows you to build sharable text documents, similar to Writely.

Shoutwire is a community news tracker, similar to Digg. It doesn't appear to be terribly current or deep in content. Nice design.

iKarma is a feedback and self described reputation and feedback system. Think of it as eBay feedback for the whole internet. I had a bit of a hard time finding any feedback content. Neat idea, but it needs more people to input more feedback.

Kanoodle is the "leader in targeted sponsored links." It says it is affiliated with thousands of search engines (I didn't know there were that many of them). It places pay-per-click ads in the search result pages for you.

Airset is yet another online calendar. The application looks nice, but there are way too many applications in this space.

Before Today I'd Heard of:

0 out of 10

And the Winner of Round 7 is:

iKarma, based solely on potential. Not a strong heat.

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4 Comment(s):

Oh, we don't get to vote? This is sooo Web 1.0 :-)

By Anonymous Zoli Erdos, at 2/20/2006 9:27 PM  
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Can I get some love for AirSet please? It deserves more of a mention than the other Web 2.0 calendars simply because it's not trying to be a Web 2.0 calendar. It started pretty Web 1.0, and they've been adding features and AJAXifying as they go. It isn't going to knock you out just by looking at it, but try using it with your significant other some time, and the power there will become evident.

By Anonymous Nels, at 2/21/2006 8:51 AM  
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Wow. What a boring bunch. And since nobody can stop us from voting, I'm going to vote for AirSet. I hate calendars, but I like how they've added the ability to push the data out to my phone. That might actually make it useful. It's normally when I'm running around that I most need access to my calendar.

I like the concept of Writeboard, but without the ability to import and only being able to export to text, I'll stick with Writely.

By Anonymous kalbzayn, at 2/21/2006 10:33 AM  
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I'll take another look at Airset.

And I really want people to vote, here in the comments.

Thanks, and vote early and ofter :)

By Blogger Kent, at 2/21/2006 1:46 PM  
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