50 Popular Sites from Germany

Barcamps are selling out the very same day they are announced, the idea of collectively bootstrapping a company on a single Startup Weekend attracts more than 100 developers, designers, entrepreneurs and VCs within 24 hours, Webmondays, Wiki Wednesdays, Geektogethers, pl0gbars, MediaCamps and other events are taking place in many cities, more than 200 web 2.0-ish sites have launched this year alone, there is a lot of excitement in the German startup sphere.

To wet your appetite for what's going on in Germany we compiled a list of the 50 most popular sites from Germany right now. This list is based on counting the number of bookmarks of about 400 sites 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.

	25peeps* is a fun tool to promote your blog.
	2Video lets you download videos from many video sites.
	Amberjack* lets you easily create site tours of your website.
	amiando lets you plan events and manage invitations. You also can open a shop and sell tickets for your events.
<	brainR is a tool for social brainstorming.
	Clipfish is a video sharing site. Clipfish belongs to the RTL Group.
	Dealjaeger is a social shopping site which lets its members hunt for deals.
	dopcast is a community for pod- and vidcasters.
	edelight is a social shopping site with focus on gifts.
	favoor* is a start page which lets you organize your feeds, bookmarks and notes.
	folkd* is a Firefox extension which enriches your browsing experience in multiple ways.
	fotolia is a stock photography site.
	gutefrage is a knowledge community / Q&A site.
	Hitflip lets you swap your DVDs, CDs, books, and games.
	HolidayCheck is a platform for hotel and trip reviews with a social twist.
	iliketotallyloveit* is a digg-style aggregator for cool, hot, beautiful stuff, preferable with a link where it may be bought.
	Jimdo lets you easily create web pages. On a technical note it's also the first site from Germany which made itself available for the Facebook platform.
	Knuddels has chat rooms on various topics.
	Kochpiraten is a recipes wiki with social features.
	logo-creatr* lets you instantly create Web 2.0 compliant logos.
<	lycos-iq is a Q&A community.
	mabber* is a web based instant messenger.
	MeinProf lets you rate your college and teachers.
	MindMeister* lets you create, manage and share mind maps online.
	Mister Wong is Germany's most popular social bookmarking service. Mister Wong has localized communities in Russia, France, Spain, China and recently launched an international version.
	mite is a beautiful tool for managing your time.
	mnemomap* is an experimental search engine.
	musicmesh* aggregates music videos from YouTube in an interesting way.
	mypictr* is a a picture resizing service (e.g. to to create a custom profile avatar for social networks)
	MyVideo is another video sharing site. This one belongs to the Pro7/Sat1 Group.
	piqs is a photo sharing site.
	PlayMyGame* lets you create your own personalized games.
	plazes* detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby.
	podcast is a podcasting portal.
	Qype is a community which enables anyone to search for & review service providers, businesses and public places. Qype recently also launched in the UK.
	seitwert calculates the popularity of your site at various search engines.
	sevenload is another popular photo and video sharing site. Sevenload recently launched an international version.
	snapmania* is an online photo manager.
	Spreadshirt* lets you design and sell your own T Shirts (and accessories.)
	spreed* is a service for web based conferencing.
	StudiVZ is 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.
	teamslide* lets you give online presentations.
	VisualOrgasm is a design community.
	weblin* lets you create an avatar and chat with people visiting the same website.
	WebNews is a digg-style aggregator.
	WebSnapr* lets you capture screenshots of web pages or provide (slightly annoying) hyperlink target thumbnails.
	Xing is a popular social network for business professionals. Xing went public in December 2006.
	YiGG is another popular digg-style aggregator
	zpeech* lets you comment any website on the website itself.