Hitwise Predicts the Next List of Successful Web 2.0 Companies
First to those who donna what is Hitwise . Hitwise is a company which collects Internet usage data directly from ISPs to measure the traffic to more than 800,000 Internet sites.
It has predicted the next six Web 2.0 companies most likely to reach the soaring success of
YouTube, Wikipedia or Flickr. The list includes Yelp, StumbleUpon, Veoh, WeeWorld, Imeem and Piczo. Hitwise announced its projections in San Francisco at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo.
Here is in short on what these six Web 2.0 companies do:
- Yelp offers an online guide that allows users to rate various goods and services.
- StumbleUpon allows users to recommend Web sites to others with common interests.
- Veoh provides software to allow users to collect, publish and watch high definition videos.
- WeeWorld allows users to create a graphic alter ego to be used for online or mobile communications.
- Imeem is an online community to allow users to promote their content, blogs, music, photos and videos.
- Piczo is a site that allows users — it targets teenagers — to create their own customizable Web sites.
Wikipedia, the wiki-based encyclopaedia, is the one exception cited in the Hitwise study: 4.6 per cent of all visits to Wikipedia pages are to edit entries on the site.
Besides Wikipedia, other well-known Web 2.0 destinations are social network sites like MySpace and Facebook and photo-sharing site Photobucket.
Visits by web users to the category of participatory Web 2.0 sites account for 12 per cent of US web activity, up from only two per cent two years ago, the study showed.
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