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Re: Top 20 Web 2.0 Services

Tommy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:29:46 -0000

Hitwise is a terrible way to count. This is a company that's paid to use some measure. So if MySpace is one of these 1500 clients that pay Hitwise to do statistics, I cry foul!!!

Re: Top 20 Web 2.0 Services

JRRaphael — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:02:10 -0000

Well-said...even if you're calling us all abnormal. :-)

Re: Top 20 Web 2.0 Services

girlgerms — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:41:26 -0000

note that ALL of these (except maybe gaia online) have always been targetted at "normal" people. the twitters and friendfeeds and diggs of the world have an audience of white male computer professionals, and that deters the masses from joining in.

lesson: if a small 2.0 service is big on techcrunch and scoble, it's not going to be big on the whole internet.

Re: Top 20 Web 2.0 Services

ontarioemperor — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:31:43 -0000

As you can see from my FriendFeed comment, I extracted that information from the Hitwise item. Thanks for bringing it up front.

Re: Top 20 Web 2.0 Services

JRRaphael — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:39:24 -0000

Ontario, good question. I should have included in the original post that the stats were based only on U.S. visits to the sites last month. Post is updated to reflect that.

Re: Top 20 Web 2.0 Services

ontarioemperor — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:27:29 -0000

An interesting study, and one that reminds us that the vast majority of the world doesn't care if FriendFeed goes down for a few hours.

I would like to dig into the relative statistics for MySpace vs. Facebook, and what criteria were used to rank MySpace so much higher than Facebook - were there geographical considerations? Usage considerations?