Weekly Wrapup Special: Best Products & BigCo of 2009
In this special edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our weekly newsletter, we summarize our end-of-year series profiling the best web products of 2009. We also carried out a Reader Poll this week, asking our readers to select their favorite products of the year. We present the results of that poll here.
Finally, this week we announced our 6th annual Best BigCo award. Read on to find out which big Internet company impressed us the most in 2009.
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Reader Picks: Best Web Products of 2009
This week we ran a reader poll, asking for your votes on the top Web products of the year. Thousands of you voted for up to 10 products, from a list of 100 selected by the ReadWriteWeb authors over December.
The poll has now closed and we’re pleased to present the ReadWriteWeb community’s Top 10 Web Products of 2009.
Here is the final top 10:
1. Twitter
2. Google Chrome
3. Google Maps
4. Facebook
5. WordPress
6. Adobe AIR
7. iPhone platform
8. Google Apps
9. Hulu
10. TweetDeck
For more analysis, read our announcement post.
Best BigCo 2009
In one of ReadWriteWeb’s longest-running traditions, every year we review the top Internet companies and their impact over the past 12 months. This week we announced the 6th annual Best BigCo, a.k.a. big Internet company. In 2008 the Best BigCo went to Apple, due largely to the iPhone and App Store. Facebook won in 2007, Google in 2006 and 2004, and Yahoo! in 2005.
For 2009, the ReadWriteWeb team chose Google as our Best BigCo.In our top 100 products list for 2009, seven Google products made the cut:
- Android platform
- Google App Engine
- Google Apps
- Google Chrome
- Google Maps
- Google Search Options and Rich Snippets
- Google Voice
And we didn’t even include Google Wave, its biggest launch of the year. We think Wave has a lot of potential, but it’s clearly at the experimental stage still. The web browser Chrome was probably the Google product that had the biggest impact this year.
Read more about Google and the other nominees…
Best Web Products of 2009
In what’s become an annual tradition, every December ReadWriteWeb selects the best Web products of the past year. In a series of 10 articles, we examined the top web products in categories ranging from consumer web apps to RSS and syndication platforms.
Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2009
We kicked off the series with a look at the top mobile web products of the past year. This is a subjective list of editorially selected products, but one which includes some of the biggest names in mobile web applications for 2009.
Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2009
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