The 100 Most Popular Web 2.0 Sites From Germany
My first post here at blognation Germany back in July was a list of 50 Popular Sites From Germany. In the 5 months since about 500 new sites – on average 3.5 each day – have launched, with the end of the year approaching perfect time for an update. Without further adoo here is the list of the 100 most popular sites from Germany right now:pageflakes (7129) – a start page and personal news aggregator | |
mindmeister (5679) – lets you create, manage and share mind maps online | |
ultimate-flash-face (4196) – fun site which lets you assemble faces via a minimalistic interface | |
websnapr (2318) – lets you capture screenshots of web pages or provide (slightly annoying) hyperlink target thumbnails | |
favicon.cc (2199) – create and share favicons | |
amberjack (2112) – lets you easily create site tours of your website | |
mypictr (2025) – a picture resizing service (e.g. to to create a custom profile avatar for social networks) | |
musicmesh (1770) – aggregates music videos from YouTube in an interesting way | |
studiverzeichnis (1653) – Germany’s largest social network for students and was largely inspired by Facebook. Earlier this year it was acquired by Holtzbrinck for an estimated 80 million euros. | |
pixer.us (1621) – edit your photos online using only your browser | |
popuri.us (1560) – check the link popularity of any site based on its ranking, social bookmarks, subscribers and more | |
logo-creatr (1455) – lets you instantly create Web 2.0 compliant logos | |
xing (1278) – a popular social network for business professionals. Xing went public in December 2006. | |
spreadshirt (1014) – lets you design and sell your own T Shirts (and accessories.) | |
map24 (994) – provides various map services, was acquired recently by Navteq | |
chefkoch (904) – a food and recipes community | |
fotocommunity (852) – online community for photography | |
mister-wong (786) – Germany’s most popular social bookmarking service | |
seitwert (729) – calculates the popularity of your site at various search engines | |
plazes (675) – detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby | |
photocase (606) – a community for photographers | |
podcast (543) – a podcasting portal | |
myvideo (532) – a video sharing site. This one belongs to the Pro7/Sat1 Group | |
qype (521) – a community which enables anyone to search for & review service providers, businesses and public places. | |
mnemomap (520) – an experimental search engine | |
anymails (512) – an experimental visualization of emails | |
iliketotallyloveit (486) – a digg-style aggregator for cool, hot, beautiful stuff, preferable with a link where it may be bought | |
fotolia (468) – a stock photography site | |
holidaycheck (462) – a platform for hotel and trip reviews with a social twist | |
mabber (396) – a web based instant messenger | |
favoor (395) – a start page which lets you organize your feeds, bookmarks and notes | |
teamslide (386) – lets you give online presentations | |
yigg (384) – a popular digg-style aggregator | |
jimdo /364) – lets you easily create web pages | |
clipfish (327) – a video sharing site. Clipfish belongs to the RTL Group | |
mite (324) – a beautiful tool for managing your time | |
playmygame (321) – lets you create your own personalized games | |
a-better-tomorrow (278) – Design Contests + Streetwear + Community | |
piqs (269) – a photo sharing site | |
noserub (248) – a decentralized social network | |
visualorgasm (239) – a design community | |
hitflip (236) – lets you swap your DVDs, CDs, books, and games | |
sevenload (201) – another popular photo and video sharing site | |
kochpiraten (201) – a recipes wiki with social features | |
edelight (195) – a social shopping site with focus on gifts | |
snapmania (195) – an online photo manager | |
dawanda (192) – marketplace and community for handmade goods | |
webnews (192) – a digg-style aggregator | |
lokalisten (186) – a social network | |
amiando (184) – lets you plan events and manage invitations. You also can open a shop and sell tickets for your events | |
mydays (164) – a community about wishes | |
folkd (163) – a Firefox extension which enriches your browsing experience in multiple ways | |
yasni (163) – a people search engine | |
brainr (160) – a tool for social brainstorming | |
dealjaeger (151) – a social shopping site which lets its members hunt for deals | |
spreed (151) – a service for web based conferencing | |
verwandt (147) – lets you create your family tree and stay in contact with your relatives | |
gutefrage (147) – a knowledge community / Q&A site | |
meinprof (147) – lets you rate your college and teachers | |
kindo (144) – also lets you create your family tree and stay in contact with your relatives | |
sudokular (143) – a sudoku community | |
loudblog (142) – lets you easily host podcasts | |
2video (138) – lets you download videos from many video sites | |
weblin (137) – lets you create an avatar and chat with people visiting the same website | |
stayfriends (134) – search engine and community for finding and staying in touch with former friends | |
dopcast (134) – a community for pod- and vidcasters | |
rivva (133) – a minimalistic but fantastic memetracker | |
knuddels (133) – chat rooms on various topics | |
zpeech (132) – lets you comment any website on the website itself | |
schuelervz (132) – a social network for kids and high school students | |
linklift (123) – marketplace for selling text link ads | |
familyone (120) – photo and video sharing site for families | |
aka-aki (118) – a mobile social network, currently in private beta | |
feedbuddy (116) – lets you find people with similar interests based on common subscribed feeds | |
trigami (116) – marketplace for paid reviews | |
kwick (111) – a social network | |
jogmap (107) – lets runners add and discuss maps | |
25peeps (106) – a fun tool to promote your blog | |
doktus (105) – share documents | |
faroo (104) – a distributed peer-to-peer search engine | |
ostube (103) – media CMS which lets you run your own youtube-style community | |
experteer (103) – a platform for jobs | |
utopia (102) – a portal for a green lifestyle | |
mindpicnic (100) – a user driven e-learning site | |
lovelybooks (98) – a community for book lovers | |
icio.de (96) – a social bookmarking site | |
globalzoo (93) – a travel community | |
kinkaa (91) – a travel search engine | |
schutzgeld (87) – a woot-style site, by invitation only | |
atoolo (86) – a web desktop | |
tripsbytips (86) – another travel community | |
projektwerk (86) – a platform for jobs in IT and media | |
reliwa (86) – community for people interested in books and music | |
blauarbeit (86) – marketplace for services | |
mygoya (84) – a webdesktop | |
sprachnudel (83) – a community about words and language | |
imagelooop (81) – lets you create slideshows and widgets from your photos | |
yumondo (79) – site for urban stylesharing | |
bookya (78) – marketplace for students for selling books | |
invyte (77) – lets you organize events and manage invitations |
This list is based on counting the number of bookmarks of about 1,000 services from Germany we are aware of at the bookmarking service del.icio.us. While it is hard to find significant metrics for measuring the popularity of sites, it’s even harder to access reliable data for any metric for all sites. Going with del.icio.us is straightforward, but not necessarily an indicator for a large number of active users, traffic or economic potential.
Sites which are available in English do have a competitive advantage at del.icio.us compared to sites which are in German only. Sites which have been around for a while have an advantage compared to services which launched this year or a few weeks ago. A few of the most popular sites in this list are useful and focused but rather smallish tools which attracted a lot of bookmarks because they made it on del.icio.us’ hotlist. The list misses a few popular or interesting services, but overall the heuristics works fine.
On a sidenote: there must be some secret Kool-Aid construktiv GmbH is drinking since they have 5 services in the top 20 (websnapr, mypictr, pixer.us, popuri.us and their flagship Mister Wong.)