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WebWare 100 Proves We Don’t Like Work

The 2008 Webware 100 winners have just been announced.  Over half the votes went to the top 10 winners:  Facebook,Firefox, Google, iTunes, MySpaceYouTube, DeviantArt, Friendster, Gaia Online and Maxthon.

Here’s the full winner list, the top 100 web applications selected by 1.9 million voters.

Now, what about that “we don’t like work”?  Well, out of all catogories  Productivity attracted the least active voting, only 64,000 votes in total.  Incidentally it’ sthe category I am typically interested in – a sure sign that I must have my head screwed on the wrong way. smile_omg  This was also the category fatally skewed last year, at Webware 2007, when it was lumped together with Commerce, and of course got dominated by giants like Amazon, eBay and PayPal.

This year I’m glad to see Productivity become a category on its own, and the winners are (click on the icons for detail): 

 
 
Congratulations to all the winners, many of whom will be present at the Web 2.0 Expo starting in San Francisco tomorrow.