Comments on: Germany 2.0 – My Top 10 Social Web Players

By: Jay1

Jay1 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I noticed SPREADSHIRT in a German news magazine called “DER SPIEGEL” (translated:THE MIRROR)and checked in out June 2006.
Today I run several Shops at SP AMERICA and SP EUROPE.
It`s a good way to spread my own designs to customers I myself would never be able to find. I design my own ideas and use Spreadshirt as a fulfillemt partner that prints and delivers the apparel to my customers. It works. In december we could visit the BERLIN office, where the management showed new products and we partners could talk with them about our wishes. We also use other partners for our work but I have to say, SP is the one that fits best.

Jay

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Regarding weblin I won’t agree, sorry. A browser plugin… I won’t believe a lot people will install it (can also be proofed via Alexa), but well, as I have heard there will come a service which uses the weblin functions in some kind and can be used without installing anything. I guess this will be a cool killer application.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, thanks for your replys so far!

I’ve sorted the list in “felt” reverse-traffic size order (we already know all the big ones…). That´s why luupo and guut are rather high. Mister-Wong is listed.

I would like to add so many more very cool and useful services like verwandt.de, fabidoo, pageflakes, mindmeister, photocase, fotocommunity, qype, plazes, iliketotallyloveit, dawanda, lokalisten, folkd, dealjaeger, knuddels, ostube, schutzgeld, abettertomorrow, sportme…and so on. But I had to pick my Top 10.

You got more candidates? What´s your Top 10?

Best regards, Tim
- you can give this a digg

By: Carsten Pötter

Carsten Pötter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It's quite difficult to choose 10 companies. Germany has surprisingly many social commerce players. A really good one is A Better Tomorrow which is similar to Threadless. Other companies worth mentioning are Pageflakes (although headquarters are in the US by now) and Wevent which is similar to Upcoming but is unique enough to stand out. Many Germans have jumped ship from Upcoming to Wevent.

By: Timo Heuer

Timo Heuer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Tim,
I don’t agree with you in guut.de and luupo. They are not that much well knows, but of course, that’s your opinion!

By the way, what about Plazes or Qype or Mister Wong?

-Timo

By: Thomas Huhn

Thomas Huhn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Tim,

most people actually don’t realize that there are a couple of international startups (in english language) that are based in Germany too.

While our own lifestreaming service lifestrea.ms is still in private beta and cannot compete with high traffic sites yet, I still would like to please you to have an eye on us for 2008.

We’re working on the concept of aggregating and re-distributing
your social graph, your content, your comments and your attention data for quite a while now and have created lifestrea.ms to accomplish the goal of being your personal hub on the web to make the vision of total portability come real.

We’ve already implemented quite a number of the latest technologies yet, like OpenId, OPML, APML, RSS and Microformats like hCard and XFN.

From the feedback we get, people think we’re ‘bleeding edge’ and we hope to catch up with these high expectations when we reach the point of public release.