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Movers 2.0 and Bullshitr — More Cool Web 2.0 Stuff…

by Ujwal Tickoo on February 10th, 2007

MOVERS 2.0 ranks the top Web 2.0 sites by traffic. It uses Alexa for ranking. At the time of this writing — YouTube is the top dog. The Top 10 are:

1. YouTube
2. MySpace
3. Orkut
4. Wikipedia
5. hi5
6. FOTOLOG
7. Facebook
8. Friendster
9. Flickr and
10. Xanga

On the humourous side notice that none of the top 10 have a "r" ending its name (except ofcourse Flickr). A good sign. If you want your Web 2.0 site to be taken seriously don't make a name look-alike of Flickr! And, if you already have had enough of Web 2.0 sites that don't really amount to much try Bullshitr. This is the world's best Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator I have seen till now!

And how about faking a Web 2.0 logo? Here are 9 steps given by Richard Quick:

1. Come up with a silly name .. then take some of the vowels out.
I’m hoping to “flip” (sell) my company to Google, so what about “Flipr”? 2. Realize the name’s already been taken as a .com .. so add another word to the website address
Damn .. www.flipr.com’s already gone! How about www.meetflipr.com? 3. Choose some bright colours
How about green? Nobody uses green. Yeah .. I think I’ll go for green and blue.
4. Think of a cute mascot
…. what about a dolphin?
5. Use “Arial Rounded” as the typeface
For that cool .. contemporary look.
6. Add the word “beta”
7. And a starburst
8. Throw in some “gel” effects
9. Add a reflection

POSTED IN: Web 2.0