Social Networking Awards 2006 by Mashable Blog
Mashable , the most popular social networking blog (more than a million page views per month and over 400,000 subscribers), summed up the popular vote on Sunday and selected the winners and winners of the Social Networking Awards 2006 . The most popular, useful and original social Internet projects in all imaginable areas received medals in the nominations "Editor's Choice", "Readers' Choice" and "Hot for 2007".So the winners.
- Mainstream and large social networks.
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Editor's Choice: MySpace
A real cultural phenomenon! 140 million accounts, almost complete freedom of the form and content of a personal page and almost frightening all-inclusiveness.
Reader's Choice: Multiply
A network of true friends. More closed than MySpace, but its growth rate is not inferior to it. Multiply received the award in this nomination mainly due to the friendly voting of its participants.
Hot-2007: Bebo , Vox , Facebook , Facebox .
New products of the last months of the year, Bebo and Vox, have every chance of becoming a hit next year. Also interesting are Facebook projects targeted at US college students, and Facebox, covering the same youth in Europe. - Widgets and addons.
Editor's Choice: Slide.com
Slideshow widget, like RockYou. He gained great popularity among MySpace users and does not want to lose it even after the release of the analog built into this network.
Reader's Choice: Zwinky
Base avatars like the well-known Gravatar'a, popular among adolescents.
Hot-2007: RockYou , Stickam , Snocap , Zingfu , MyBlogLog
Stickam webcam service is a bomb idea. Zingfu, which makes it possible to get rid of photos in every possible way, and Snocap, which gives several interesting opportunities for earning money, can also shoot in the coming year. Well, MyBlogLog, an analogue of the domestic TooDoo, will become popular with a 100% guarantee. - Social news and social bookmarks
Editors' Choice: Digg
No comments.
Reader Selection: Trailfire .
An innovative way to collect bookmarks of this service is built on the so-called “trails” - consecutive series of tags on the sites through which the user walked, which allows you to track the logical connection between resources and direct surfing in the right direction.
Hot-2007: Del.icio.us , StumbleUpon , Blinklist .
Del.icio.us is no longer young, it is not going to stop and continues to gain popularity. The Jack of all trades StumbleUpon helps you find a bunch of interesting things on the Internet, and BlinkList gives you the opportunity to share your hobbies with others. - Sport
Editors' Choice: FanNation
Reader's Choice: Takkle
Hot-2007: SportsVite , Ultrafan
All sites give people the opportunity to unite their interests in a particular sport, boast about their achievements and just communicate. - The photo
Editor's Choice: Flickr
Reader's Choice: Twango
Hot-2007: Zooomr , Webshots , ImageShack , Tabblo , Pickle , BubbleShare
The successors of the pioneer business Flickr add new convenient features and improve the old ones. Mashable editors consider Zooomr the most likely candidate for photo-hit service. - Video
Editor's Choice: YouTube
YouTube leadership is beyond doubt.
Reader's Choice: Gotuit
Service that allows you to put tags on individual scenes of video clips.
Hot-2007: Metacafe , Motionbox , Revver , vSocial , StupidVideos , iFilm
This area of ​​the Internet industry is now developing at almost the fastest pace, and it is not surprising that we see so many great video sites that specialize in it. - Start pages
Editors' Choice: Netvibes
According to many, NetVibes was one of the most interesting services in the past year. Just recently, its Russian version was launched.
Readers Choice: Pageflakes
In general, similar to NetVibes, but with a twist.
Hot-2007: YourMinis , Protopage , Webwag
These three services received quite good support from users and investors, so it’s worth waiting for their active development in 2007. - Places and events
Editors choice: Yelp
Reader's Choice: CollegeTonight
Hot-2007: MingleNow , HeyLetsGo , Planypus , ILCU
The kind of social networks that has not yet gained popularity in our country attracts many people abroad. - Music
Editor's choice: Last.fm
A great music portal with many great features. A week ago, opened the Russian version.
Reader Choice: ReverbNation , MOG
Hot-2007: Pandora , YourSpins , Rapspace , MusicHawk and others
Apparently because of the weak network infrastructure, audio services have not yet received wide popularity from us, so most of their names speak little to the domestic web user. - Shopping, shopping
Editors choice: Etsy
Reader's Choice: ThisNext
Hot-2007: Crowdstorm , Kaboodle , ShopWiki , StyleFeeder
A very interesting direction of the application of the community of like-minded forces is that besides searching for interesting goods around the stores and giving ratings to retailers and brands, participants can agree to join a group to receive a wholesale discount. - Mobility
Editor's choice: Twitter
Reader's Choice: Wadja
Hot-2007: Friendstribe , JuiceCaster , Zingku , Moblabber
The most recent flow in social networks - lightweight services for use on mobile devices. The leaders here are still far from obvious, everything will become more or less clear by the middle of 2007. - Niche and other social networks
Editors choice: Flixster
Trying to create something like Last.fm for movies. The network already has 5 million users and sturdy afloat.
Reader's Choice: Dogster , LibraryThing
Combine dog owners - what could be more obvious? This is what the creators of Dogster do.
Hot-2007: SneakerPlay, MothersClick, Motortopia, Minti, ComicSpace, Curbly, MyChurch, Ziki, VeryLiberating, ITtoolbox, Fanpop, ShareyourLook, FamilyThrive, Blubrry, innerTee, Listal, ConnectingMoms, FirstGiving, RealityAllStarz, mysthefereTee, Share, ourTelefeee eLifeList, CampusBug, SnehaH, HumanOpinion, MerchantCircle, Barrio305, GenevaOnline, MDJunction
The sheet is too long for detailed explanations. Google? :)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4885/
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