New start-up stars

1. New start-up stars Web 2.0

2. Upstartle/Writely • Internet browser-based tools of word processing • It enables online creation of documents, opens them to collaboration by anyone anywhere, and simplifies publishing the end result on a website as a blog entry • www.writerly.com

3. 83degrees • A online center of exchanging calendar • This Web-based software allows families and groups to create private social networks, organize events, track schedules, and share photos; it may soon allow you to save phone numbers as hyperlinks and make calls by simply clicking on a link. • www.30boxes.com • The former founder of webshot

4. JotSpot • Online spreadsheet • A pioneer of Web collaboration apps, a.k.a. wikis (collaborative writing), it has unveiled its new Tracker application, which provides a powerful, highly collaborative online spreadsheet.

5. 37Signals • Online project management • Its Basecamp app, elegant and inexpensive, enables the creation, sharing, and tracking of to-do lists, files, performance milestones, and other key project metrics; related app Backpack, recently released, is a powerful online organizer for individuals

6. Zimbra • Online email/message aggregating software • Taking aim at Microsoft Outlook, its Ajax-based application can, among other things, bring up your calendar for any date your mouse encounters, launch Skype for any phone number, or retrieve a Google map for any address

7. Brightcove • Internet TV distributor • It's creating a video-distribution platform over the Web for producers large and small

8. YouTube • Exchange center of self-prepared videos • This site lets people upload, watch, and share millions of video clips. All videos are converted to Flash (a Web-tailored format for graphics and video), making them easy to import into blogs or webpages. • www.youtube.com

9. Wikipedia • Internet based encyclopedia composed by collaborative writing of the world-widely distributed specialists • www.wikipedia.org

10. Craigslist • Just post-it, an information center • A site of community • www.craigslist.org

11. Digg • A site of news aggregator • News items with the most votes make the homepage • www.digg.com

12. Last.fm • a personalized streaming radio station based on the digital music you already listen to, • shares your playlist on the Web, and suggests music from other closely related playlists • www.last.fm.uk

13. Newsvine • A site of collaborative publisher • Readers vote and comment on stories but can also organize their own pages and write their own stories

14. Myspace • A community for collective music composition and performance • www.myspace.com

15. Tagworld • With cutting-edge Web software enabling blogs, photo and music sharing, online dating, and more, members confront a rich smorgasbord of ways to interact, and everything can be tagged for easy searching.

16. Six Apart • Blogging tools • The company helped kick off and sustain the Next Net with its Moveable Type blogging software and TypePad blogging service.

17. Bloglines • Online feed reader • The site collects blogs and news from all over the Web and presents it in one consistent, updated, multifeed mashup

18. Eurekster • A search mashup • This do-it-yourself search engine, or swicki, allows you to define sites you want to search, post the results on your blog or website, and get a cut of any search ads your audience clicks on.

19. Odeo • A site of podcasting, by using a multimedia software, AudioBlogger, to aggregate media on the browser • www.odeo.com

20. SimpleFeed • A tool of opt-in RSS marketing • By allowing RSS feeds to be customized to the desires of each recipient and tracked individually, the site makes such feeds a powerful marketing tool

21. Flickr • An Internet-based media tool • www.flickr.com

22. Simply Hired • A job search engine • It searches nearly 4.5 million listings on other job and corporate sites; subscribers receive an RSS feed or e-mail alert when a job that meets their parameters pops up.

23. Jigsaw • Business contact management • In exchange for their own contact lists, salespeople use this site to access a virtual Rolodex of managers at nearly 150,000 companies

24. Salesforce.com • Platform for online enterprise software • It pioneered Web-based software and is trying to become a marketplace and host for other online apps through its AppExchange.

25. Technorati • Blog search engine • The site filters the almost 30 million existing blogs, shows how many other blogs link to a particular post, and can rank blogs by topic

26. Trulia • A site of real estate mashup • Combining home listings from agents' websites with Google Maps

27. Wine • A site of tag search engine • By searching user-generated tags on sites like Del.icio.us and Digg • Wink filters the Web so users can sort links into different collections and add their own tags and bookmarks.

28. Fonality • Open source telephony software • It sells a $1,000 box that allows a PC to use open-source software to mimic a PBX system that costs five times as much

29. SIPphone • Internet phone software • Its Gizmo Project application allows free PC-to-PC calls, cheap PC-to-phone calls, and sound effects

30. Iotum • Presence management software • With its app, users will be able to control where and when they receive voice or text data, routing calls to their phones, e-mail, or RSS feed-and blocking calls from, say, creditors.

31. Vivox • Peer-to-peer voice technology • Its service integrates voice, video, messaging, and social-networking capabilities into existing data networks

32. Wretch • 無名小站, blog service provider • http://www.wretch.cc/

33. Baidu • Chinese search engine and portal • www.baidu.com

34. Taobao • A Chinese-based online auction site • Deterrence from the invasion of eBay.cn • www.taobao.com

35. Toodou • 土豆網 • A site of media podcasting • www.toodou.com