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Australia's top Web 2.0 properties ranked

by Stuart Corner
Thursday, 19 June 2008
! Australian Internet strategy firm, Future Exploration Network, has produced a list of the top 100 Web 2.0 properties in Australia, claiming it provides the broadest coverage of the Australian Web 2.0 landscape available to date. Related stories NetSuite first Chrome-plated on-demand business suite: claim Aussie Parliament goes live to the Web Brits suffer from discomgoogolation Google builds a better browser The Internet interprets the USA as damage and routes around it Holding top place is mig33 billed as a global mobile and web-based community, including social networking and messaging such as IM, email, text and photo sharing. It was founded in 2005 in Perth but is now based in the US, where it has raised $US23 million in funding. It claims to have more than seven million users across 200 countries and aims to be "the largest mobile community, delivering a rich and complete mobile internet experience for millions of users in the world. " Future Exploration Network chairman, Ross Dawson, said the list showed that many leading companies were moving to Silicon Valley. "Web entrepreneurs with global ambitions are finding it is difficult without a presence in Silicon Valley, which remains the overseas destination of preference, and that there were many failures. "It is a highly dynamic industry, with many trying, many failing, some succeeding, and a continuous flow of participants. Australians need to get better at failing. Success in online ventures comes from trial and error, and Australian business culture holds innovation back by seeing failure as a negative." Dawson added: "It is exciting to see the accelerating pace of development in Australian online start-ups. We have been tracking the Web 2.0 landscape in Australia and globally in detail for several years. After being behind until recently, Australian developers' recent success means we are now playing at our weight. If the trend continues we may see some major global success stories soon." The number of contenders has grown considerably in the past 12 months. Dawson said that the 2007 list of 60 "covered close to everything we were aware of," but this year "we have well over 100 applications that fit a strict interpretation of the criteria, plus over 40 applications that do not fit the criteria. This a vibrant scene." And, at the bottom of the list there is bugger all. That's http://www.buggerall.com.au/. It it billed as "blog search based on tags," but I can tell you no more: the link is not working right now. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Internet Social networks Stuart Corner Web 2.0 Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now