Critical.
Authoritative.
Strategic.
Subscribe to CIO Magazine »

5 Web 2.0 Startups to Watch in 2010

Innovation comes to the cloud

There's no doubt that 2009 was a rough year for startups and established businesses alike, but many are holding out hope that 2010 will be different, especially since venture capitalists seem to be loosening their purse strings. Keep an eye on these five businesses that offer fresh ideas to the Web 2.0 arena.

1. Backtype. The Backtype service lets you find, follow and share comments from across the Web. It indexes comments from millions of blogs and social networks, making them available for search based on a keyword or a URL (especially handy for tracking posts on Twitter). It also lets you "claim your comments"-by inputting your usernames for several websites such as Digg, FriendFeed or Facebook, Backtype then attributes those comments to you on your Backtype profile.

2. Evernote. Evernote, a cloud-based service similar to mindmapping allows you to save notes from meetings, photos, documents and more, then organizes them in a searchable way (or you can do that yourself). Evernote recognizes text in pictures too; you can archive notes from a meeting or keep travel documents handy by snapping a photo of them. It also supports Ritescript-a division of Evernote-which is a handwriting recognition software. (Evernote also closed out 2009 with $10 million in financing.)

3. Kosmix. Enter a keyword into search engine Kosmix and it gathers content from across the Web, displaying information in modules such as a general overview of the keyword, news and blogs, company profiles, images, video, latest tweets, related content, reviews and guides, forums, shopping guides and more. Quite comprehensive.

4. Posterous. Posterous is a publishing platform that lets you post pictures, audio files, links, documents and video-but what differentiates it from other blogging services is that it can be maintained entirely via e-mail, on the go. It also lets you post updates to other sites you belong to, such as Facebook, Twitter and Wordpress, so you don't have to visit those sites individually.

5. Shout'em. Shout'em lets you customize a secure microblogging network where you can share photos, files, links and locations with only the people you want-great for businesses looking for a secure alternative to Twitter. Or, if you prefer, you can synch your account with Twitter and Facebook. Shout'em has also rolled out a mobile client for BlackBerry and iPhone users.

Which Web 2.0 companies are on your horizon this year?

Join the CIO Australia group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.

More about: BlackBerry, Evernote, Facebook
References show all

Comments

1

I love streetfolio

Fri 15/01/2010 - 12:52

my top startup

I love Streetfolio.com - it's an Aussie startup that helps investors and home-owners manage their mortgage and cashflow. Tremendously helpful and so simple to use. Perhaps a play for one of the banks in 2010?

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Users posting comments agree to the CIO comments policy.
Login or register to link comments to your user profile, or you may also post a comment without being logged in.
Related Coverage
Related Whitepapers
Latest Stories
Community Comments
Tags: 2010, cloud computing, startups, web 2.0
Latest Blog Posts
Whitepapers
  • A Governance Guide for Hybrid SharePoint Migrations
    Cloud-based computing represents a powerful new option for managing enterprise content, offering increased flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost for IT infrastructure, data storage, and applications. However, for a variety of business and technical reasons, most organisations will take a phased approach to adopting cloud-based services, which will require them to continue to maintain their on-premises SharePoint environments during the transition. This white paper, written by Chris Beckett from SharePoint Bits, discusses some of the benefits and risks of hybrid SharePoint deployments, and presents governance considerations that are essential for ensuring a successful migration.
    Learn more »
  • Security Threat Report 2012
    This threat report shares the latest research on hacktivism, online threats, mobile malware, cloud computing, and social network security looking ahead to the coming year.
    Learn more »
  • The Case for Real-Time Networking
    CIOs are facing several powerful trends and inflection points that are defining the new IT landscape, including cloud computing, virtualization, the consumerization of IT, smart computing, and communications to collaboration. Taken individually, each one of these trends will have significant ripple effects throughout the planning and operations of IT network infrastructure. In aggregate, they will have an even more dramatic impact on the way that future network architectures need to be planned and designed. Read on.
    Learn more »
All whitepapers
rhs_login_lockGet exclusive access to Invitation only events CIO, reports & analysis.
Recent comments