Baru saja diumumkan 100 top webware atau aplikasi web terbaik tahun 2008.

Secara pribadi aku senang karena jawara-jawaranya adalah aplikasi web yang selama ini juga kupakai. Jarar Siahaan adalah maniak agama Firefox [anti-IE], Google [chat tidak lagi pakai Yahoo Messenger, tapi GTalk, karena jauh lebih cepat, atau bisa juga chat langsung dari halaman GMail], dan WordPress [mudah dipakai bikin situs, kreatif lagi].

Ke-100 aplikasi web terbaik ini ditetapkan berdasarkan voting 1,9 juta orang pengguna Internet, yang digelar CNet, salah satu media teknologi sekaligus toko online terbesar yang khusus menjual komputer, software, kamera digital, dll yang berkaitan dengan teknologi informasi. Awalnya terdapat 5 ribu web yang masuk nominasi, lalu disaring hingga tinggal 300. Dari ke-300 itulah para pengguna menentukan pilihannya.

Terdapat 10 kategori dengan masing-masing 10 pemenang. Sejumlah produk Google menang sekaligus pada beberapa kategori. WordPress — baik situs multi-usernya WordPress.com, maupun softwarenya seperti yang kupakai di Blog Berita ini — juga terpilih sebagai salah satu pemenang pada kategori publishing.

Berikut adalah daftar lengkap 100 aplikasi web terbaik 2008 — urutan dan satu ulasan singkat yang kupilih pada masing-masing kategori tidak berpengaruh pada ranking popularitas.

1. Kategori browsing

Firefox is a free, multiplatform browser. Its popularity is second only to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer among Web browsers, but unlike IE, it has open-source code. The result has been an avid development community, filled with people eager to squash bugs and create new functionality. Firefox also has the option to create and use extensions that can add new features or services right on top of the user experience. These add-ons have gotten so popular that Firefox creator Mozilla has created its own directory for users to search and sort through them.

# Google Reader
# Firefox
# iGoogle
# Internet Explorer 7
# iPhone
# Maxthon
# My Yahoo
# Opera
# Safari
# Windows Live Home

2. Kategori audio

Pandora is a music discovery and recommendation service. Users can listen to tracks via a simplistic player, and if they like or dislike a song they can vote yes or no on it. If they don’t like it, the service will automatically skip it and move onto something else. If they do like it, Pandora will pull up tracks it thinks are similar in style.

# Amazon MP3
# BlogTalkRadio
# Pandora
# eMusic
# Finetune
# iLike
# iTunes
# Last.fm
# Live365
# Zune Marketplace

3. Kategori commerce

Amazon.com was one of the first online retailers in the world. It started out with books and now sells nearly every consumer good, including groceries and over-the-counter medicines. The service is well known as one of the best places to find new or used books at prices below what you’d pay in most retail stores. It also features free shipping on many of its items.

# Craigslist
# eBay
# Etsy
# Google AdWords
# Amazon
# Kayak
# PayPal
# Woot
# Yahoo Shopping
# Zillow

4. Kategori communication

One of the reasons Gmail has become so popular is its sorting system, which lets users simply leave e-mail in their in-box. Instead of organizing things in folders, Gmail has employed a filtering system, which essentially lets users automatically tag and sort through incoming e-mail. In recent years, Gmail has continuously increased its available storage space in excess of 6 GB, and has integrated other Google services such as instant messaging from Google Talk and AOL’s AIM.

# Yahoo Mail
# GMail
# AIM
# iChat
# meebo
# Microsoft Windows Live Messenger
# ooVoo
# Pidgin [Ini sangat bagus, gratis, aku juga memakainya. Bisa sekaligus dipakai untuk chat YM, GTalk, IRC, dll.]
# Skype
# Windows Live Hotmail

5. Kategori productivity

Google Calendar is a free, Web-based calendar. Users can add events in multiple calendars and access them on their mobile phone or using Google’s Gmail. Like many other Google applications, Google Calendar has a collaborative nature.

# 30 Boxes
# Basecamp
# Google Docs
# Google Calendar
# I Want Sandy
# Microsoft Office Live Workspace
# Mint
# Remember the Milk
# Yahoo Calendar
# Zoho

6. Kategori publishing & photography

Flickr is a popular photo-sharing and hosting service owned by Yahoo. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other’s photos. You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr without paying a dime. There’s also a pro service that gets you unlimited storage and sharing for about $2 a month.

# .Mac
# Blogger
# Drupal
# FotoFlexer
# Flickr
# Photobucket
# Picasa Web Albums
# Twitter
# Wordpress & Wordpress.com
# Worth 1000

7. Kategori search & reference

Google is the most popular search engine on the Internet and has quickly become a household name associated with Internet search in the same way “Kleenex” is synonymous with tissues. Google works by crawling sites on the Internet and forming associations on what pages are the most relevant. Search “spiders” go out and continuously crawl sites to make it possible to search for anything and get fairly up-to-date results.

# Answers.com
# Ask.com
# Google
# Google Earth
# Google Maps
# Hakia
# Live Search
# Wikia
# Wikipedia
# Yahoo

8. Kategori social

Facebook’s biggest move, however, was introducing a development platform that lets developers make their own “application” for Facebook. These applications can run the gamut, from single-use widgets to full-blown Web sites that can be accessed and integrated into a Facebook user’s data. Users can add as many applications as they want, then integrate and rearrange them on their profile page.

# Bebo
# DeviantArt
# Facebook
# Friendster
# Gaia Online
# Google Groups
# LiveJournal
# MySpace
# Stardoll
# Yahoo Groups

9. Kategori utility & security

BitTorrent is an advanced peer-to-peer sharing technology that runs using a client system. To share and transfer files, users must be running a BitTorrent software client on their computer.

# Amazon S3
# BitTorrent
# Box.net
# LogMeIn
# OpenDNS
# OpenID
# Pando
# ShareFile
# Yahoo Briefcase
# YouSendIt

10. Kategori video

YouTube is the most well-known video service on the Internet. YouTube lets anyone share videos online, either from their hard drive or recorded using their computer’s Web cam. It uses Flash and a simple video player that starts playing videos right away.

# Amazon Unbox
# FixMyMovie
# Joost
# Miro
# Netflix
# uStream
# Veodia
# Vimeo
# VoiceThread
# Youtube

Itulah semuanya. Aplikasi web mana dari daftar di atas yang kaupakai? Atau adakah aplikasi web lainnya yang menurutmu bagus tapi tidak terpilih sebagai pemenang?

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