and the winner is..

Wired’s webmonkey has just published the results of their user survey on tinkers & stinkers of web-too-oh. I liked LibraryThing. Even the name is enough to make you feel warm. Basecamp, on the other hand, seems very useful.

Interestingly, MySpace seems to be out. Have we (as in we 12 yr old girls) outgrown it? Migrated to facebook? Or simply got bored of looking at ourselves making funny faces in the mirror-on-the-web?

Is this actually the first survey of web2.1 apps – things that don’t make a fuss about sharing, ajax, social features – simply use them as given to do something useful?

Web2.1 (II)

Tribler is a p2p file-sharing tool which uses social networking to enhance quality & performance. While I haven’t tried it yet, or even read the paper, the concept is definetly called for. Most so-so tools have a very limited perception of ‘social’. It’s usualy ‘me Tarazan you world’ or ‘me Tarazan you firends’, with no intermidiate levels. In the real world, I call my mum for recipies and my dad for car advice, but wouldn’t bother sharing a video with niether (unless its a home video of their grandchildren, which I wouldn’t want to share with anyone else). Its about time systems started reflecting these basic principles of social life!

Oh, and the reason they get a ‘Web2.1′ tag is that they’re also working on tag navigation and mob ranking.

Anyway – if anyone gives them a spin, do leave a comment here!