2006 the most significant advances in information technology.

1. Image and video search
2. Mobile-phone projectors
3. Geotagging
4. Tools for content creation and sharing
5. Electronics without silicon
6. Flash memory

Best Q&A sites

1. AnswerBag
2. Askville
3. Live QnA
4. Wondir
5. Yahoo Answers
6. Yedda

Go private?

Google's possible buyout

LinkedIn - professional relationships
Slide - online slide
Yelp - local review
Room 9 Entertainment? new media

Top industry advertisers

1. Financial services
2. Retail goods & services
3. Web media
4. Telecommunications
5. Public services
6. Consumer goods
7. Entertainment
8. Travel
9. Hardware & electronics
10 Automotive

Top site genres

Top 10 site genres ranked by impressions:

1. Email
2. Community
3. Portals & Search Engines
4. National News
5. Entertainment
6. Travel
7. Shopping & Auction
8. Sport & Recreation
9. Finance
10. Local

More Web 2.0 Social networking sites...

Social networking sites with the highest traffic growth:

1. Feedburner (385%)
2. Digg.com (286%)
3. MySpace (170%)
4. Wikipedia (161%)
5. Facebook (134%).

Web 2.0 stuff...

This list is coming from Web2.0 Conf at SF on Nov 7-9, 2006.

1. 3B: 3D MySpace
2. Adify: Branded direct advertising
3. In the Chair: Online music teacher
4. Instructables Share what you make and how others can make it
5. oDesk: On demand global workforce
6. Omnidrive: Online storage aggregator
7. Pidgin Technologies: Empowering web communities
8. Sharpcast: Backup, share and organize your photos
9. Sphere: Blog search
10. Stikkit: Online sticky note
11. TimeBridge: Online Scheduler
12. Turn: Automatic targeting ads
13. Venyo: Online trust provider

Web 3.0?

Let's find out the next cool stuff:

1. Powerset: Natural lanaguage search, next Google
2. Yelp: All about review, next Craiglist
3. Pandora: Next iTune
4. Loopt: Share your location
5. Bluedot: Social Discovery