Alongside this morning's launch of Symbaloo in the US, I prepared a list of 50 top startups that I am watching. Challenged to rank the 50 from one to fifty in terms of both interest and viability, it proved to be a challenging task, but I can make a good case for all included, as well as their position. Of course, no list is without its omissions and second guesses. I am sure that if I ran this exercise 10 times, I would get a different list 10 times.
With the understanding that being a private company does not always mean you are a startup, I looked below the uber-players such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon, Craigslist, Tesla, and others, with a focus primarily on Web services, with a tendency toward social, and apps I am using frequently. I am more than happy to share with you the list, and it would be great to hear those you think I left off the list and missed, or how this is off base. Thanks to Symbaloo being out there, I hope to keep similar lists updated on my Webmix.
Without further ado...
- Foursquare http://www.foursquare.com
- Spotify http://www.spotify.com
- Automattic http://automattic.com/
- Posterous http://www.posterous.com
- Blippy http://www.blippy.com
- SlideShare http://www.slideshare.com
- Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com
- TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com
- Square http://squareup.com/
- Quora http://www.quora.com
- CinchCast: http://cinchcast.com/
- Sports Blog Nation http://www.sbnation.com
- Bit.ly http://www.bit.ly
- my6sense http://www.my6sense.com
- Thing Labs http://brizzly.com/
- Plancast http://www.plancast.com
- Seesmic http://www.seesmic.com
- Lunch http://www.lunch.com
- Gowalla http://www.gowalla.com
- DropBox http://www.dropbox.com
- Lazyfeed http://www.lazyfeed.com
- Hunch http://www.hunch.com
- Ecademy http://www.ecademy.com
- Xobni http://www.xobni.com
- Tweetmeme http://www.tweetmeme.com
- Feedly http://www.feedly.com
- Klout http://www.klout.com
- Justin.tv http://www.justin.tv
- Amplify http://www.amplify.com
- OneRiot http://www.oneriot.com
- Lijit http://www.lijit.com
- Echo http://aboutecho.com/
- MyLikes http://www.mylikes.com
- Outbrain http://www.outbrain.com
- DailyBooth http://dailybooth.com/
- Gist http://www.gist.com
- Soluto http://www.soluto.com
- Tungle http://www.tungle.me
- Qwotebook http://www.qwotebook.com
- Regator http://www.regator.com
- Untitled Startup http://www.untitledstartup.com/
- Twazzup http://www.twazzup.com/
- The Cadmus http://thecadmus.com/
- Branchr http://www.branchr.com
- Graphic.ly http://www.graphic.ly/
- BlockChalk http://blockchalk.com/
- FitBit http://www.fitbit.com/
- RockMelt http://www.rockmelt.com/
- Live Intent http://www.liveintent.com/
- Fabulis http://www.fabulis.com