Complete Lists: Web 2.0 at a stroke?

The new technologies of Web 2.0 offer the user an incredibly high number of opportunities – on a never ending number of Web pages.

In times of Wikipedia, Flickr, Frappr, Del.icio.us, Digg, OpenBC, Gmail, Technorati, MySpace etc. there is a great demand for clarity and order. Tagging already applies to this need within Web pages. As hard as it seems to tidy up a little bit, concerning the hourly growing mass of new pages and services, there are some users who are really committed to this topic and try to square the circle – in so-called Complete Lists.

When trying to organize the numerous offers and services of Web 2.0, one will come across different approaches. The list of Bob Stumpel at Sacred Cow Dung is divided into categories that are called – sorting with Web 2.0– Blogging 2.0, Search 2.0 or Community 2.0. Being a very ample list, there is a particularly great deal of pages listed below the keyword eCommerce. Discoveries are almost guaranteed. Some extra space for commentary gives this page community feeling.

The motivators of E-Consultant have dismissed their predication that there are 1007 sites/services/links of Web 2.0 in more than 50 categories. Instead, they have raised the number of collected links to 1200+. The categories Filtering Services and Collaboration Services have the highest number of links registered within. Though fairly voluminous, the list keeps on being concise. Suggestions of further entries can be expressed inside a comment list.

At web2list.com the topic is approached in a completely different way. Every listed site has an own short description and all its categories assigned to. The categories are also displayed as a tag cloud and every user has the opportunity to assess the listed web sites. Furthermore, web2list.com provides one with interviews with some of the motivators of the listed sites, e.g. on the entry of mynoteIT.

The “Complete List of Web 2.0 Products and Services” of listible has a voting-system, too. The voting replaces completely a subdivision into categories. However, the topic of a listed web site opens up through a little teaser provided below the headline.

In conclusion we can say that there are a lot of different solutions that organize the countless offers and possibilities within the world of Web 2.0. Thanks to the active participation of many users, Complete Lists are on their way to getting truly complete.

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