Top 10 British dotcoms to watch
The Guardian recently published a list of their top 10 British dotcoms to watch, many of which I hadn’t heard of. It’s nice to see some good ideas coming out of this country. How many times have you checked out the latest cool web app and ended up thinking, “Yeah, it’s cool, but if only they had it with UK data.”
As someone looking to move house in the near-future, I’m particularly liking the GoogleMaps-powered ononemap.com and extate.co.uk
Their top 10 (in alphabetical order):
Social networking for frequent travellers.
Extate
Intelligent search of property websites.
Garlik
Online identity management.
MindCandy
Alternate reality gaming.
Moo
Print on demand: cards, notes and stickers.
OnOneMap
Map-based property search.
Touch Local
Local directory services.
Trusted Places
User-created local information.
Zopa
Peer to peer lending.
Zubka
Recruitment 2.0.
Filed under: Things We Like, Industry Comment on August 1st, 2007
I seen this the other day - it was quite interesting as I wasn’t aware of a few of these start-ups.
The most interesting of the lot, for me, was ‘Zopa’ - ‘peer to peer lending’ made me think of web-based streaming media through p2p methods. I was surprised and interested to see it’s actually money lending.
Whilst it’s nothing I’d use myself (in terms of lending or borrowing), it’s certainly a great concept. It’ll be good to see if it becomes successful or falls flat on it’s face.