Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications
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Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications 2008 – The Complete List
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1. mig33
Website: www.mig33.com
Person/Company: Project Goth (Steven Goh/ Mei Lin Ng)
Description: Global mobile and web-based community, including social networking and messaging such as IM, email, text and photo sharing. Founded in 2005 in Perth and now based in the US. Has raised US$23 million, and has over 7 million users across 200 countries.
2. Confluence
Website: www.atlassian.com
Person/Company: Atlassian (Mike Cannon-Brookes/ Scott Farquhar)
Description: Enterprise wiki with 5,000 clients in over 80 countries. Based in Sydney and San Francisco. Atlassian has over $22 million in revenue with no external funding.
3. Red Bubble
Website: www.redbubble.com
Person/Company: Martin Hosking/ Peter Styles/ Paul Vanzella
Description: Art gallery and creative community where artists can upload art and sell it in many formats. Over 100,000 items sold in 71 countries in the first financial year. Has raised $3.7 million in funding.
4. 3eep
Website: www.3eep.com
Person/Company: Rob Antulov/ Nick Gonios
Description: Social networking platform covering sports from national to school level for sports enthusiasts, players, teams and parents, allowing discussions and photo and video sharing. Has licensed the platform in Australia, Canada and Germany, and is also run as a stand-alone social network.
5. Engagd
Website: www.engagd.com
Person/Company: Faraday Media (Chris Saad/ Ashley Angell)
Description: Web service application that creates ‘attention profiles’ of users, and enables these to be used in customising services and content for users.
6. MyVirtualHome
Website: www.mvh.com.au
Person/Company: Greg Lane/ Paul Condon
Description: Allows users to create an accurate 3D walk-through model of their home, preview renovation possibilities and products provided by vendors, and contact service suppliers. People can share their home interiors and gardens for collaborative design. The viewing software will soon be available as a free download, allowing manufacturers and retailers to display products and themed homes in interactive 3D on their websites. Software being sold and licensed in a number of overseas countries.
7. Booking Angel
Website: www.bookingangel.com
Person/Company: Dean McEvoy/ David Watson
Description: Service for restaurants to take online bookings without needing a computer. Expanding into the US. Coming features include a validated restaurant rating system.
8. Gnoos.com.au
Website: www.gnoos.com.au
Person/Company: Red Lion Ventures (Ben Barren/ Michael Leone/ Peter Burley)
Description: Australian blog and media search engine that indexes over 150,000 sources. Services include providing large companies with detailed information on blog and social media references to their activities, and syndication of blog content to media organisations.
9. Scouta
Website: www.recommendationventures.com
Person/Company: Richard Giles/ Graeme Sutherland
Description: Collaborative filtering and recommendation engine provided as a web service for online retailers or entertainment providers. The consumer site Scouta.com provides personalised recommendations for video and audio.
10. RetailMeNot
Website: www.retailmenot.com
Person/Company: Stateless Systems (Guy King/ Bevan Clark)
Description: Community sharing of discount coupons with major presence in the US. Provides multiple ways to access coupon information, including through widgets, gadgets and browser plug-ins.
11. vibEngine
Website: www.vibecapital.com
Person/Company: Vibe Capital (Clay Cook/ Rachel Cook/ Jackie Shervington)
Description: Richly featured social community platform used by Vibe Capital’s Minti and Gooruze, and licensed to a number of overseas clients.
12. Enhanced Media Platform
Website: www.enikos.com
Person/Company: Enikos (Jonathan Wolfe/ Mike Nicholls)
Description: Video advertising platform based on the MPEG-21 video standard that allows publishers to create or mashup widgets, and enables user interactivity and targeted advertising.
13. Rememberthemilk
Website: www.rememberthemilk.com
Person/Company: Emily Boyd/ Omar Kilani
Description: Web, mobile and IM shareable to-do lists with features including location. Over 500,000 users globally.
14. OurWishingWell
Website: www.ourwishingwell.com
Person/Company: Joseph Renzi
Description: Gift registry that enables people to donate towards presents around the world. Strong revenue and international presence.
15. StreetAdvisor
Website: www.streetadvisor.com.au
Person/Company: Jason Spencer/ Adam Spencer
Description: Residents rate their streets and localities on criteria such as public facilities, noise, and neighbourly spirit, and write reviews. Users earn ‘streetcred’ and ‘local experts’ are appointed. The primary focus is on Australia, US, UK and Canada, but it has been launched in many other countries.
16. TheBroth
Website: www.thebroth.com
Person/Company: TheBroth (Markus Weichselbaum)
Description: Browser-based real-time collaborative art application. TheBroth, which also has over 13 million users of its Facebook applications, is shortly relocating to San Francisco from Perth.
17. Plugger
Website: www.plugger.com.au
Person/Company: Stephen Phillips/ Richard Slatter
Description: Australian news aggregator covering mainstream and social media, and providing recent trends in coverage of leading companies and people.
18. Tangler
Website: www.tangler.com
Person/Company: Martin Wells/ Alex von Kotze/ Mick Liubinskas
Description: Customisable live forums with features including embedding discussions into blogs and social networks. Popular with Australian and US technology start-ups for their user forums.
19. COZero
Website: www.cozero.com.au
Person/Company: Nick Armstrong/ Dan Sullivan
Description: Site to calculate and offset personal and business carbon emissions. Includes ability to publicly share carbon emission profiles and utilities such as car pooling.
20. SwapAce
Website: www.swapace.com
Person/Company: Joseph Renzi
Description: An online market place to sell, buy and swap products, services, employment and events. Enables bartering of products and services, multiple offers and counter-offers and negotiation on non-financial components.
21. Particls
Website: www.particls.com
Person/Company: Faraday Media (Chris Saad/ Ashley Angell)
Description: Application and browser plug-in that uses the Engagd web service to provide personalized news and alerts based on users’ attention profiles.
22. VastPark
Website: www.vastpark.com
Person/Company: Bruce Joy
Description: Enables individuals and companies to create custom 3D interactive virtual worlds or games and build their own distributed social networks. VastPark uses open standards to enable sharing and remixing of virtual worlds for entertainment, education, and business collaboration.
23. Ripple
Website: www.ripple.org
Person/Company: Matt Tilleard/ Mack Nevill/ Jehan Ratnatunga/ Simon Griffiths
Description: Charity site that generates income for donation through advertising and sponsorship. Buttons and search boxes are available on Facebook, widgets for blogs and websites, Google gadgets, and browser toolbars.
24. MeBeam
Website: www.mebeam.com
Person/Company: Ashod Apakian
Description: Web based video conferencing providing instant live video calls for up to 16 people simultaneously.
25. Loc8
Website: www.smartpath.com.au
Person/Company: Smartpath (David Hodges/ Owen Batt)
Description: Asset management and help desk management software delivered as an online service.
26. 2vouch
Website: www.2vouch.com
Person/Company: 2Vouch
Description: Social job recruitment service. Uses social networks such as FaceBook, MySpace and LinkedIn to distribute job listings, and enables employers and recruiters to reach passive candidates who have personal recommendations. Customers pay only on placement and get a money back guarantee.
27. Builtwith
Website: www.builtwith.com
Person/Company: Gary Brewer
Description: Automated reports on website and search engine optimization, including basic information for free and paid detail reports.
28. Supervirals
Website: www.supervirals.com
Person/Company: MassMedia Studios (Jon Skinner/ Christian Finucane/ Steve Lennon)
Description: Site where users submit brand ideas and content in response to advertisers’ briefs. Is looking for US funding to support its expansion into this market.
29. BugMeNot
Website: www.bugmenot.com
Person/Company: Stateless Systems (Guy King/ Bevan Clark)
Description: Service to enable web users to bypass websites’ compulsory registrations by sharing logins and disposable email addresses.
30. Pikistrips
Website: www.pikistrips.com
Person/Company: Pikicentral (Neil Pentland/ Mark Pentland/ Greg Pentland)
Description: Create comic strips using uploaded images, with user rating and ability to put comics on merchandise.
31. dLook
Website: www.dlook.com.au
Person/Company: Meg Tsiamis
Description: Local online business directory with a variety of features, including mapping, embedding YouTube videos, and user rating of businesses. Competes with Sensis.
32. Mojikan
Website: www.mojikan.com
Person/Company: MOR(F) Dynamics
Description: Virtual world where users create virtual pets that communicate via intelligent agent instant messaging technologies.
33. Menulog
Website: www.menulog.com.au
Person/Company: Menulog Pty Ltd
Description: Eating out guide, including user ratings, search, and a ‘My Restaurants’ Facebook app.
34. Blogarate
Website: www.blogarate.com
Person/Company: Clarke Scott
Description: Online service and widget to enable readers to rate blog posts and find related items.
35. PickupPal
Website: www.pickuppal.com
Person/Company: John Stewart/ Eric Dewhirst
Description: Matches drivers of private vehicles to passengers or packages to be picked up, enabling the payment of an agreed fee and providing user-contributed driver ratings.
36. Powerhouse Museum Collection Search
Website: www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database
Person/Company: Powerhouse Museum (Sebastian Chan)
Description: Interface to museum collection combining user tagging (folksonomies) with formal taxonomies to provide recommendations.
37. Peepel
Website: www.peepel.com
Person/Company: Stephen Kelly
Description: Suite of web applications (word processing, spreadsheet, contact manager etc.) that allow multiple applications in the same window.
38. Feedity
Website: www.feedity.com
Person/Company: Ashutosh Nilkanth
Description: Generates RSS feeds for web pages without syndication format.
39. Genbook
Website: www.genbook.com
Person/Company: Rody Moore
Description: Online booking and appointments system for small business. Has moved its headquarters to San Francisco.
40. CushyCMS
Website: www.cushycms.com
Person/Company: Stateless Systems (Guy King/ Bevan Clark)
Description: Service that allows clients of web developers to edit website content directly.
41. Vquence
Website: www.vquence.com
Person/Company: Chris Gilbey/Silvia Pfeiffer
Description: Enables users to create video montages of slices from different videos, and creates automated sequences of most popular videos for browsing. The resulting video compilations click through to the video source, and can be embedded in any website.
42. Ador
Website: www.ador.com.au
Person/Company: Zhu Cheng/ Xin Zhang
Description: Community site for rating and searching for restaurants and dining-out. Includes mapping and other features.
43. Uvouch
Website: www.uvouch.com
Person/Company: Parveen Panwar
Description: Community for sharing favourite online content and discussions in groups and fan clubs, including creation and sharing of playlists. Primarily international audience.
44. Popnets
Website: www.popnets.com
Person/Company: Buzka (Raphe Patmore)
Description: Application to share, organise and discover favourite pages within interest groups such as travel.
45. Quotify
Website: www.quotify.com.au
Person/Company: Peter Crowe
Description: Customers for home services specify requirements and are provided with quotations from selected providers, providing ratings and reviews on suppliers and their experience.
46. inthemix.com.au
Website: www.inthemix.com.au
Person/Company: The Sound Alliance (Neil Ackland/ Cliff Rosenberg)
Description: Australian dance music forum and social network.
47. NationMaster
Website: www.nationmaster.com
Person/Company: Rapid Intelligence (Luke Metcalfe)
Description: Aggregator of highly diverse data on countries that can be used to generate charts and graphs. Strong global traffic.
48. Adimade
Website: www.adimade.com
Person/Company: Jake Lawton/ Nat Graf
Description: Service to submit video ads to respond to requested projects, and vote on the best. The selected ad receives a pre-defined prize of cash or other rewards.
49. Cagora
Website: www.australia.cagora.com
Person/Company: Rob Anderson
Description: Community site with multiple functionality including user generated content and affiliate revenue for members.
50. Omnidrive
Website: www.omnidrive.com
Person/Company: Nik Cubrilovic
Description: Online storage allowing aggregation of files from desktop and online applications, and online publishing and sharing of any kind of file. Encountering competition from Google and Microsoft. Has been rumoured for several months to be going under, but is still functioning.
51. Zaabiz
Website: www.zaabiz.com.au
Person/Company: Michael Brecht
Description: Australian social networking site for professionals.
52. Minti
Website: www.minti.com
Person/Company: Vibe Capital (Clay Cook/ Rachel Cook/ Jackie Shervington)
Description: Online forums and community for parents, including tagging, rating and comments. Based on VibeCapital’s vibEngine platform.
53. HooJano
Website: www.hoojano.com.au
Person/Company: Mike Giuffrida
Description: Social recruitment site that enables people to recommend people for positions, and earn referral fees.
54. Top Bargains
Website: www.topbargains.com.au
Person/Company: Top Bargains
Description: Sharing of bargains and discount offers, in which people submit bargains and recommend them into popular lists.
55. Norg Media
Website: www.norg.com.au
Person/Company: Bronwen Clune
Description: Citizen journalism websites that allow local residents to report and comment on what is happening in their city and community. Currently available in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. ure directions include licensing the platform into overseas markets.
56. Buzka
Website: www.buzka.com
Person/Company: Raphe Patmore
Description: Social bookmarking site enabling users to create Spots on particular topics.
57. Saasu
Website: www.saasu.com
Person/Company: Marc Lehmann/ Peter Cooper/ Grant Young
Description: Comprehensive online financial and accounting application, including integrated access to external applications such as mapping and search across social networks.
58. 88 Miles
Website: www.88miles.net
Person/Company: Myles Eftos
Description: Online time-tracking utility for professionals, including project allocation and time punch in and out.
59. Loconut
Website: www.loconut.com.au
Person/Company: Alex Blain/ Allan Loh
Description: Community social networking site based on user-submitted and syndicated content. It is currently focused on WA and will expand across Australia.
60. Docoloco
Website: www.docoloco.com
Person/Company: Johnny Cussen/ Chris Mander
Description: Site for sharing recommendations on local businesses including restaurants.
61. Kwoff
Website: www.kwoff.com.au
Person/Company: Dan Walsh/ Stephen Mayne/ Greg Barnes
Description: User voting on the most interesting content for an Australian audience, including news, photos and video.
62. Chin Swing
Website: www.chinswing.com
Person/Company: Dean Worth
Description: Online discussion site that allows people to record voice messages to build a conversation.
63. Flogd
Website: www.flogd.com
Person/Company: Phillip Kingston/ Edward Thomson
Description: Allows online product shops to be easily set up and integrated into websites and social network pages.
64. Invoiceplace
Website: www.invoiceplace.com
Person/Company: Scott Carpenter
Description: Creates and keeps track of quotes, invoices, and payments.
65. MyCyberTwin
Website: www.mycybertwin.com
Person/Company: Liesl Capper/ John Zakos
Description: Social networking site populated by virtual personalities that learn their owners personalities’ so they can engage in autonomous messaging with people.
66. Not Good Enough
Website: www.notgoodenough.org
Person/Company: Brandaide
Description: Consumer feedback site to voice gripes or compliments about companies. Companies are provided with updates and the opportunity to engage directly with consumers.
67. Gooruze
Website: www.gooruze.com
Person/Company: Vibe Capital (Clay Cook/ Rachel Cook/ Jackie Shervington)
Description: Social network for online marketers. Includes ranking of members and their submissions based on their contributions and user ratings. Based on VibeCapital’s vibEngine
68. Tiinker
Website: www.tiinker.com
Person/Company: Deep Grey Labs (Alex North/ Oleg Sushkov)
Description: Personalised news and content recommendations based on individual preferences and opinions.
69. MyCosm
Website: www.mycosm.com
Person/Company: Simmersion
Description: Free custom 3D virtual worlds, including personal selection of users and integration with external social networks and content creation and sharing applications. In Beta.
70. Global Surfari
Website: www.globalsurfari.com
Person/Company: Gary Brewer
Description: Provides free surf forecasts, reports, predictions, weather forecasts and surf accomodation for global surfing locations
71. Raveabout it
Website: www.raveaboutit.com.au
Person/Company: Tim Griffin/ Mark Rimmer
Description: Local business search based on user reviews and ratings. The platform is used by other directories.
72. RAYV
Website: www.rayv.com.au
Person/Company: Anil Sabharwal
Description: Local business directory including reviews, ratings and recommendations.
73. AustraliaForum
Website: www.australiaforum.com
Person/Company: AustraliaForum
Description: Forum for discussion of travel and living in Australia.
74. Blocklayer
Website: www.blocklayer.com
Person/Company: Greg Tarrant
Description: Online calculator for builders, including layout for stairs and gazebos. Includes a services for mobiles.
75. eWise Systems
Website: www.ewisesystems.com
Person/Company: Alexander Grinberg
Description: Financial account aggregation performed on client-side.
76. Fwditon.com
Website: www.fwditon.com
Person/Company: Fwditon
Description: Rating and sharing of funny emails, videos, and photos.
77. RocketReader
Website: www.rocketreader.com
Person/Company: RocketReader
Description: Speed reading application including online service with ability to share self-created tests.
78. Si-Mi.com
Website: www.si-mi.com
Person/Company: Si-Mi.com
Description: Site enabling creators to sell content including videos, music, podcasts and games. The online community provides ratings of the content.
79. Publicity Wheel
Website: www.publicitywheel.com
Person/Company: Mark Schumann
Description: Collaborative promotion service in which websites are selected to be promoted to all members.
80. The Fame Experiment
Website: www.fameexperiment.com
Person/Company: Mark Schumann
Description: Allocates points to people based on their promotion of the experiment, selects individuals through the network, and invites them to blog about their experience.
81. Pikifx
Website: www.pikifx.com
Person/Company: Pikicentral (Neil Pentland/ Mark Pentland/ Greg Pentland)
Description: Simple online tool for modifying images.
82. SameSame.com.au
Website: www.samesame.com.au
Person/Company: The Sound Alliance (Neil Ackland/ Cliff Rosenberg)
Description: Australian gay forum and social network.
83. fasterlouder.com.au
Website: www.fasterlouder.com.au
Person/Company: The Sound Alliance (Neil Ackland/ Cliff Rosenberg)
Description: Australian rock music forum and social network.
84. Buttonator
Website: www.buttonator.com
Person/Company: Pikicentral (Neil Pentland/ Mark Pentland/ Greg Pentland)
Description: Drag and drop button creator for websites
85. Oziwi
Website: www.oziwi.com
Person/Company: Gregg Nelson
Description: Recently launched social network focusing on Australia and NZ.
86. Ovosuite
Website: www.ovosuite.com
Person/Company: Ovosuite
Description: Online office applications including document sharing, calendar, forums, and minute maker.
87. Confer
Website: www.confer.com.au
Person/Company: Rod L’Huillier
Description: Social news sharing, recommendations, and discussion.
88. Pxcream
Website: www.pxcream.com
Person/Company: Pierre Sauvignon
Description: Enables professional and semi-professional photographers to showcase their pictures, sell images and services, and engage in community discussions and activities.
89. Facts Online
Website: www.factsonline.com.au
Person/Company: Chris Jolly/ Rafael Cohen/ Richard Sheehan
Description: Online personal financial calculator, including budgeting, cashflow and superannuation calculations.
90. Booze Counter
Website: www.boozecounter.com.au
Person/Company: Tim Willis
Description: Online service to help people track their drinking habits.
91. Factbites
Website: www.factbites.com
Person/Company: Rapid Intelligence (Luke Metcalfe)
Description: Search engine that provides full sentence, meaningful results distilled from a range of sources.
92. The Roar
Website: www.theroar.com.au
Person/Company: Conversant Media
Description: Australian sports opinion site, including user generated content and discussion.
93. Service Seeking
Website: www.serviceseeking.com.au
Person/Company: Service Seeking (Jeremy Levitt/ Oliver Pennington)
Description: Companies bid to win jobs of all kinds, and are rated on their performance. Covers both local services such as gardening and remote services such as IT, where it competes with global services such as elance.com.
94. SuburbView
Website: www.suburbview.com
Person/Company: Mark Ferris
Description: Real estate search engine using mapping to show listings, including RSS feeds and alerts to mobile.
95. Writetomyblog
Website: www.writetomyblog.com
Person/Company: Mark Ashcroft
Description: Web-based word processor for bloggers.
96. BEE
Website: www.onmyweb.net
Person/Company: Jacky Ko
Description: Collaborative website editing platform
97. RosterLive
Website: www.rosterlive.com
Person/Company: RosterLive
Description: Online workforce management software, including rostering and attendance.
98. Chop or Champion
Website: www.choporchampion.com
Person/Company: Brian Vella
Description: Community site for followers of Australian sports, enabling users to discuss the performance of teams and players and to ‘chop’ or ‘champion’ them.
99. Spyk
Website: www.spyk.com
Person/Company: Tim Kremer/ Andrew Franklin
Description: Property search integrated with mapping.
100. Buggerall
Website: www.buggerall.com.au
Person/Company: Australian Blogs
Description: Blog search based on tags.
