Wakoopa, an application discovery platform, shared the results of their analysis of applications based on 525,000 hours of usage tracked across 75,000 users.
The title is a bit misleading. It only covers desktop and web apps but is full of analysis by time of day, by user age etc.
Here is one view of the data.
"The techies in attendance were starry-eyed for all things mobile, picking Nitobi’s PhoneGap, an open-source tool for building mobile apps, as the People’s Choice winner. Life-tracking site zeaLOG was a close second."
Om Malik surveys a group of his followers on Twitter (so don't generalize to rest of world), and asks them to pick one web service they find most useful - Google and Yahoo! properties excluded
"Three startups that got a lot of mentions were: Evernote, FriendFeed and Mint.com. Sure there were mentions of Digg and Facebook, but those three got most mentions. Remember The Milk, Xobni and Dropbox were other names that were mentioned."
Features to make GMail even more helpful such as Goggles, which makes you solve math to make sure you are still awake or sober before you send mail ; the addict feature forces you to take a 15 minute break by blocking your screen; and still others useful such as the recent addition of texting from a chat session.
But the emphasis is on experimental - as Google says these features are experimental and:
"How good is the system? Good enough that the New York Jets signed an
exclusive contract with the company that prohibits any other team in
the AFC East from signing up to use it this year. The software passed
an unexpected test when Brett Favre was traded to the Jets right before
training camp and needed a crash course in the Jets offense. The team
credited Huddle with getting the legend up to date. The Cornhuskers,
and a handful of high school teams, are also using the system.
At the heart of Huddle is the ability to watch game footage from the comfort of one's couch. Teams capture and log their video using their standard methods; Huddle seamlessly, and immediately, offers the video on its shared site. Just like the Blackberry freed the businessman from the cube, Huddle lets players leave the video room. Coaches can log into their accounts and tag video with telestrations, voice, and text. They can then send those clips to players for their review or even create tests, to check just how well a player knows the playbook or realizes his in-game mistakes. Diagrams can be created using Xbox-like technology and then linked to video examples."
Here's NY Times coverage
see also my earlier post on other technologies in Football
"While e-commerce sites tend to derive recommendations from a mix of information
about users' browsing and purchasing habits and information about the items for
sale, Digg's system, much like the site itself, places its trust in the wisdom
of crowds."
The Big Daddy event kicked off today in San Francisco. While people are still arguing about what exactly Web 2.0 is, it is also time to celebrate the hundreds of creative companies launched in the lat few years.
Click below to enlarge the photo below from stabilo-boss.
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