Internet Companies that Crossed My Desk Last Year…
January 4th, 2006
After a break from posting over the New Year, I decided to jot down a list of companies and online services that crossed my desk last year. Most of them are private companies (i.e. typically startups) since I figured everyone knows the offerings of Yahoo, Google and MSN anyways, although I included some of their recent aquisitions. As a VC, I have the privilege to spend a lot of my work hours looking for cool and innovative new apps and services on the Internet, and people often ask me:”So what new things are there on the web?”. Here you go…
And yes, it includes portfolio companies of the VC firm I work at and entries are not ranked in order of importance either. Sorry it’s such a long list – I played around with an expandable javascript menu, but it didn’t play nice with all browsers so I reverted to the simplistic approach…
Search and Discovery
- Algorithmic Search
- RSS Search
- Jobs
- Shopping
- Audio, Podcast & Music
- Video
- Travel
- Mobile
- Classified Aggregation
- Real Estate
Community and User-Generated Content
- Photos
- Videosharing
- Local Reviews
- User-submitted News
- Algorithm-filtered News
- Music
- Podcast Portals
- Hyperlocal
- Social Bookmarking
- Classifieds
- Craigslist [not new, but too classic too be missed]
- Kijiji
- Events
- Wireless
- Dodgeball owned by Google
- Rabble
- Textamerica
- Reference & General Reviews
- “Young” Social Networking and Blogging
- MySpace
- The Facebook
- Xuqa
- Xanga
- Livejournal part of SixApart
- Hosted Blogging
- Business Social Networking
- General Social Networking
- Friendster
- Tribe
- Hi5
- ASmallWorld
- Meetup
- and so many more….the above are really only examples
Tools and Productivity
- Calendaring
- Personal Organization and ToDo
- WebApp Development Kits
- Project Management and Collaboration
- RSS Aggregation
- Rojo
- Bloglines owned by Ask
- Newsgator
- Feedlounge
- Wiki
- RSS Tools
- Storage and Large File Transfer
- R&D
- Online Office Apps
- Personal Portal Pages
- Billing
- Blinksale
- Simplybill (already live?)
Which ones did I miss – I would love to get some comments so I can add companies accordingly!
Would you like to comment on this blog post? Get in touch with me and please do let me know where to find your comment. I'll update this post with the best of them. (Why?)