I saw the
Under the Radar event mentioned here at
TechCrunch regarding Fox Interactive announcing 'acquiring' 5 of the 32 companies that were at the event. Pretty impressive for these web 2.0 start ups.
They actually mentioned they weren't acquiring
Tagged, I had a quick look at this and it looks very similar to something a lot of my university friends use called
Bebo and
hi5. All very high use youth targetted social community sites sharing pictures etc.
Myspace is very similar but has a more blog focus.
There was actually a lot of similarities between these web 2.0 sites:
- Calendar sharing and syncing with mobile devices (AirSet, CalendarHub, goowy, Mosoki, Rallypoint, skobee, zvents)
- news feed sharing (nowpublic, tagcloud, tailrank, top 10 sources, wink, dabbledb)
- blog sites (Box.Net, DogSter, Popist, zoho)
- search engine based community enhancements (Browster, Eurekster, Kaboodle, rollyo, simpy)
- job search (simply hired)
- photo sharing (BubbleShare, Flock, riya, spymedia)
- podcast (Loomia)
- others (Meetro, sphere, formsassembly)
I guess every one has a chance of dominating a particular space...but can they compete against Yahoo, MSN and Google. Who can simply roll out a similar idea with their current user base and take over?
- Instant messenging is still all over the place with Skype, MSN, Yahoo, GTalk, AOL and plenty of others.
- Blogging is still all over the place with Blogger, MySpace, ...
- Photo sharing with Flickr, Yahoo, Google, MySpace, ...
- Online spaces from MyYahoo, Google, MSN, ...
I guess the calendar one hasn't been totally taken off yet...but then not everyone's friends are online and check every day. Blogs and Photos are different because they don't need a response, they are just there for reference. The "my" type sites only require the person who is online to be there. I'm really not sure Calendars will take off completely.