Web 2.0 Wars: Round 20

By on March 26, 2006 in Tech

It’s time for Round 20 in Newsome.Org’s Web 2.0 Wars. The contestants and rules are here.

This is the final heat of the first Round. The playoffs will be next.

Prior Rounds: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19

Here are the contestants for Round 20:

Mercora
StumbleUpon
ClipShack
MeetWithApproval
HomePortals
SpinSpy

Mercora is a music search service. It requires you to install software on your computer, so I can’t comment on how well it works.

StumbleUpon is a browser extension that let’s users rate and recommend web sites of interest.

ClipShack is a video hosting and sharing service. Crowded space.

MeetWithApproval lets users schedule and confirm meetings.

HomePortals returned error messages galore when I tried to visit. DQ’ed.

SpinSpy is a news by contest site, sort of like Digg

Before Today I’d Heard of:

0 out of 6.

And the Winner of Round 20 is:

Mercora in a very small and very weak heat.

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  • http://www.nead.us/ Sam

    “Web 2.0 Wars” is Link Bait. Round 20: Weak heat. Weaker review.It sounds as if you are running out of steam, or you initially decided on too many rounds multiplied by too many ‘particpants’ (circa 171 at last count.)This wreaks of link bait. How many times has the phrase “Web 2.0″ been seeded to search engines and other blogs from within this 20 Round war?And Rules? Why? This again leads readers to think there is an organized, thought-out system to these reviews.From today’s round…Mercora: “It requires you to install software on your computer, so I can’t comment on how well it works.But it won the heat people! What gives?This blog consistantly oozes opinionated, higher-blogging standards and philosophies, but when the curtain is drawn back on this escapade, we find you standing at the control panel with your pants down around your knees.Heatedly submitted,Sam

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428649718647203180 Kent

    It was the last heat, with only 6 entries because that was all that was left.It won because of perceived potential and because it was in a weak and small group.So yes, I was very much out of steam.

  • Anonymous

    How can you choose the winner of this round without even trying it?Obviously you are unaware that Stumbleupon is the 9thmost popular Firefox extension.http://tinyurl.com/3vsebThink you made a bad call here..

  • http://fenian.stumbleupon.com/ fenian

    How can you choose the winner of this round without even trying it?Obviously you are unaware that Stumbleupon is the 9thmost popular Firefox extension.http://tinyurl.com/3vsebThink you made a bad call here..

  • Anonymous

    stumbleupon is a clear winner. I think you should try it, if its being included.amp1985

  • http://www.pddoc.com/camp Mike in Arkansas

    You said: StumbleUpon is a browser extension that let’s users rate and recommend web sites of interest.I’ve been using StumbleUpon for nearly 2 years now. I’ve been introduced to more high quality sites with a far wider variety that I would have ever seen had I not stumbled upon StumbleUpon. I’ve learned a lot and had my views altered and my horizons expanded… and that’s saying a lot for a 54 year old whose been around more than a few corners and has always considered himself to be fairly open minded. I am a paying sponsor with StumbleUpon and I will pay my small pittance again when they send me the notice that it’s time. StumbleUpon is a clear winner with a large number of very loyal users!

  • http://skedaddle.stumbleupon.com/ skedaddle
  • Anonymous

    Web 2 Wars : This site, Newsome : OYour survey is useless since you highly rate a product you haven’t even tried – and won’t – because it requires a download, but ditch one of the most popular, progressive extensions to Firefox whose popularity and useability is proven daily and which a simple googling would confirm. To rate a winner for “potential” when you actually refuse to try it yourself against one that has proven its potential already – what WERE you thinking?I hope you’ll take another look at StumbleUpon, and switch on the software in your own head if you expect people to take your site and assessments seriously, let alone bother to check you out at all. Otherwise I have to conclude that what you do is just a joke.

  • Anonymous

    6 contestants left. You can’t even be bothered to test the sites. That leaves this charade with zero credibility. I mean seriously???StumbleUpon is hands down the most vital extension to anyone who uses their system to search for sites of their personal interest. Not to mention the excellent online community there.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/00428649718647203180 Kent

    Let me try this once more.There were 6 contestants because we were at the end of the list and there were only 6 left.I didn’t do in depth testing for the other 180 or so applications so I didn’t do it for these either.As I said above, I chose Mercora because I thought it was a weak group overall and based what I read it seemed to have some potential. Part of the criteria is the liklihood of the “company” becoming profitable, which is why I chose Digg in its round over other applications that I use and like better. Cool and popular does not necessary a business make.

  • http://google1research.stumbleupon.com/ google1research

    StumbleUpon is the best Web 2.0 by far, round 20. SU is the 9th best extension on the Mozilla Firefox list.What else can top SU, StumbleUpon is a clear winner. SU will always be number one in my book. Have you even tried SU, this survey is a discredible.