Web 2.0
Internet history covering the Web 2.0 period, roughly between 2004-2012. Including the serialization of my Web 2.0 memoir: Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution.
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Best BigCo of 2011: Amazon
Amazon, ReadWriteWeb's best big tech company of 2011, has been around since the dot-com era, but what's most impressive is how it has disrupted entirely new markets over the past year.
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My Top 10 Web Products of 2011
I wondered whether my top 10 products for 2011 would look similar to 12 months ago, but it turns out that only 3 of the same products made the cut again. Most of my favorite Web products this year are new.
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Best LittleCo of 2011: Dropbox
This year's best web startup has become the leading service in a rapidly growing market: the Consumer Cloud. Our Best LittleCo is Dropbox, the popular file backup, sync and sharing service.
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Best BigCo of 2010: Facebook
Facebook passed 400 million active users in February and continued its ascent throughout the year. Its astounding growth shut out all competition as an all-purpose social network.
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Best LittleCo of 2010: Tumblr
The rise of Tumblr, Posterous and other 'light blogging' services was one of the top trends of 2010. Our pick for best startup of 2010, Tumblr, now boasts over 11 million blogs running on its service.
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My Top 10 Web Products of 2010
Here's my own personal top 10 list of my favorite products of 2010. I'm not claiming these are the best products of the year, only that they're the products I used and loved the most.
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Best LittleCo of 2009 and Most Promising
For our best startup, we've chosen a small company whose product launched in 2009 and quickly became a leading example of one of the biggest trends we identified this year: the real-time web.
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google
Google is without question the predominant Internet company of our time; in large part because it continues to innovate and stay one step ahead of its competition. It proved that again in 2009.
