I feel I might be catching Listomania, a blogger’s disease where you serially post lists from other blogs. I will keep taking the medicine. However, I spotted another list you might be interested in, but which also highlights two trends in the industry. A while ago I posted about the way that the Web 2.0 world has lowered the point of entry for Entrepreneur’s to start a business , and related Joe Kraus’ story - it cost him $3,000,000 to start Excite in the 90s, but only $100,000 to start JotSpot last year. Consequently we have new tech enterprises beginning at an almost alarming rate, which is causing some people to worry that another dot.com bubble is upon us. One of the new technologies that are being used more and more, in our own and other products is Ajax. There is a particular spate of Ajax based homepage products. Techcrunch reckons that they are arriving at a rate of 1 every 2 weeks. In this piece they discuss the latest entrant Wrickr , but also list 10 others. They are all interesting in highlighting the extra level of usability that is coming in web based applications, and in demonstrating the talent that is being released. It’s not a dot.com bubble, but an innovation boom that is upon us.
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