New start-up stars Web 2.0. Upstartle/Writely Internet browser-based tools of word processing It enables online creation of documents, opens them to collaboration.

New start-up stars

Web 2.0

Upstartle/Writely

• Internet browser-based tools of word processing

• It enables online creation of documents, opens them to collaboration by anyone anywhere, and simplifies publishing the end result on a website as a blog entry

• www.writerly.com

83degrees

• A online center of exchanging calendar• This Web-based software allows families and gr

oups to create private social networks, organize events, track schedules, and share photos; it may soon allow you to save phone numbers as hyperlinks and make calls by simply clicking on a link.

• www.30boxes.com • The former founder of webshot

JotSpot

• Online spreadsheet

• A pioneer of Web collaboration apps, a.k.a. wikis (collaborative writing), it has unveiled its new Tracker application, which provides a powerful, highly collaborative online spreadsheet.

37Signals

• Online project management

• Its Basecamp app, elegant and inexpensive, enables the creation, sharing, and tracking of to-do lists, files, performance milestones, and other key project metrics; related app Backpack, recently released, is a powerful online organizer for individuals

Zimbra

• Online email/message aggregating software

• Taking aim at Microsoft Outlook, its Ajax-based application can, among other things, bring up your calendar for any date your mouse encounters, launch Skype for any phone number, or retrieve a Google map for any address

Brightcove

• Internet TV distributor

• It's creating a video-distribution platform over the Web for producers large and small

YouTube

• Exchange center of self-prepared videos

• This site lets people upload, watch, and share millions of video clips. All videos are converted to Flash (a Web-tailored format for graphics and video), making them easy to import into blogs or webpages.

• www.youtube.com

Wikipedia

• Internet based encyclopedia composed by collaborative writing of the world-widely distributed specialists

• www.wikipedia.org

Craigslist

• Just post-it, an information center

• A site of community

• www.craigslist.org

Digg

• A site of news aggregator

• News items with the most votes make the homepage

• www.digg.com

Last.fm

• a personalized streaming radio station based on the digital music you already listen to,

• shares your playlist on the Web, and suggests music from other closely related playlists

• www.last.fm.uk

Newsvine

• A site of collaborative publisher

• Readers vote and comment on stories but can also organize their own pages and write their own stories

Myspace

• A community for collective music composition and performance

• www.myspace.com

Tagworld

• With cutting-edge Web software enabling blogs, photo and music sharing, online dating, and more, members confront a rich smorgasbord of ways to interact, and everything can be tagged for easy searching.

Six Apart

• Blogging tools

• The company helped kick off and sustain the Next Net with its Moveable Type blogging software and TypePad blogging service.

Bloglines

• Online feed reader

• The site collects blogs and news from all over the Web and presents it in one consistent, updated, multifeed mashup

Eurekster

• A search mashup

• This do-it-yourself search engine, or swicki, allows you to define sites you want to search, post the results on your blog or website, and get a cut of any search ads your audience clicks on.

Odeo

• A site of podcasting, by using a multimedia software, AudioBlogger, to aggregate media on the browser

• www.odeo.com

SimpleFeed

• A tool of opt-in RSS marketing

• By allowing RSS feeds to be customized to the desires of each recipient and tracked individually, the site makes such feeds a powerful marketing tool

Flickr

• An Internet-based media tool

• www.flickr.com

Simply Hired

• A job search engine

• It searches nearly 4.5 million listings on other job and corporate sites; subscribers receive an RSS feed or e-mail alert when a job that meets their parameters pops up.

Jigsaw

• Business contact management

• In exchange for their own contact lists, salespeople use this site to access a virtual Rolodex of managers at nearly 150,000 companies

Salesforce.com

• Platform for online enterprise software

• It pioneered Web-based software and is trying to become a marketplace and host for other online apps through its AppExchange.

Technorati

• Blog search engine

• The site filters the almost 30 million existing blogs, shows how many other blogs link to a particular post, and can rank blogs by topic

Trulia

• A site of real estate mashup

• Combining home listings from agents' websites with Google Maps

Wine

• A site of tag search engine

• By searching user-generated tags on sites like Del.icio.us and Digg

• Wink filters the Web so users can sort links into different collections and add their own tags and bookmarks.

Fonality

• Open source telephony software

• It sells a $1,000 box that allows a PC to use open-source software to mimic a PBX system that costs five times as much

SIPphone

• Internet phone software

• Its Gizmo Project application allows free PC-to-PC calls, cheap PC-to-phone calls, and sound effects

Iotum

• Presence management software

• With its app, users will be able to control where and when they receive voice or text data, routing calls to their phones, e-mail, or RSS feed-and blocking calls from, say, creditors.

Vivox

• Peer-to-peer voice technology

• Its service integrates voice, video, messaging, and social-networking capabilities into existing data networks

Wretch

• 無名小站 , blog service provider

• http://www.wretch.cc/

Baidu

• Chinese search engine and portal

• www.baidu.com

Taobao

• A Chinese-based online auction site

• Deterrence from the invasion of eBay.cn

• www.taobao.com

Toodou

• 土豆網• A site of media podcasting

• www.toodou.com