Tech Company Roundup

Here’s a starter list, in no particualr order. Originally, I wanted to limited the list to the companies launhced in the past 12 months. That didn’t make sesne as I wanted to throw in some of incumbants, in a given category. So, I did away with the limiting the list by launch date:

Search
Jookster
Wink
inform
Kaboodle
snap
blinkx
Sphere (blog search)
Mobissimo (travel search)
Mercora (music search)
3bases (social search)
Kozoru (q&a, mobile)
cyc (q&a; public url tba)
Activeweave
Gada.be
Indeed (jobs)
Rollyo (you pick the ’searched’ universe … hmm)

Medio
4INFO
Kozoru (q&a, speach?)
JumpTap
V-Enable (speach search)
m-spatial (local search

Social Shopping
Wists

Bookmarking, Clipping & Tagging
eSnips
Clipmarks
del.ico.us
Shadows
Blinklist
Pluck

Classifieds
Craigslist
Google Base
Freemont (Microsoft)
Oodle
Indeed (jobs)

Blogging (besides the million sites that are already out there ;)
Sponit

Personalized Homepages (aka, Ajax/Flash Desktops)
protopage
start.com (used to be just limited to sart.com, from Microsoft)
iGoogle
MyYahoo! (of course, Yahoo! has many more goodies in the bag)
Eskobo
favoor
Goowy (Flash, not Ajax)
Netvibes
Pageflakes
Zoozio

Browsers & Extensions
Flock
Opera
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Avant (why hasn’t Microsoft extended an offer to these guys, yet??)
Maxthon

News & RSS Aggregators/Readers
Newsvine
CommonMedia
Digg
Topix.net
Gabbr
OhMyNews
reddit
Gritwire
Bandnews
memeorandum
TailRank

Podcasting Platforms
Odeo
PodTranscript

Social Networking/Communities
Flickr
LunaStorm (Europe)
Jobster
Zoominfo
43Things
TagWorld
Frapper

Futures/Exchanges
PublicGyan

Online Lists
Remember the milk
voo2do

Permission Marketing
Squidoo
Root.net

Music Services
Pandora

Instant Messaging
Meebo
MSN Messenger (8.0 Beta is in the works)
Yahoo! Messenger
Trillian

Online Collaboration & Wikis
SocialText
37 Signals (Basecamp, Writeboard, Backpack, Ta-da List)
Zoho Writer
Writely
JotSpot
Ning
Rallypoint
Central Desktop

Multimedia Storage & Sharing
Zoto
Riya
Shutterbook
GlideDigital
Boltfolio

Calendars
Trumba
CalendarHub
Kiko
zvents (San Francisco Area only)

Local Business Listings & Recommendation
Judy’s Book
Angie’s List

Mobile Content Sharing & Storage
Mophone
SoonR
Mobilatory

Vertical Portals (sorry, a ‘Web 1.0′ term)
BroadbandSports