Internet: The best of 2006

Genbeta is the Spanish Tech Crunch. For those who do not know it TechCrunch is the great gurú of Internet. It is more than blog, it has more influence in Internet at international level than any other media, including newspapers or televisions.

Nobody, neither the CNN, nor NY Times, nor Financial Times, nor Le Monde, nor the BBC, nor Al Jazzira… nor no other media is so influential and is followed as far as what it is happening in Internet. What companies, what programs, what applications, who purchas whom and what makes each company. It was the first in announcing the mega fusion between Google and Youtube, that’s because nobody today hangs the telephone to Michael Arrington, not even the directors of Google. Neither the same Larry Page nor Sergey Brin probably, nor Chad Hurley and Steve Chen founders of YouTube… or perhaps they may.

Any way, Genbeta is today the most similar in Spanish version, founded by Weblogssl.com and Javier Penalva.

The case is that genbeta it has made his traditional annual survey (it is second but this is Internet) on the best thing of the year that gives a very good track on that it is being used in Internet and what there is to know. Here are the options :

1.Best gratuitous system of blogs
Blogger, The Coctelera, MySpace, VOX, Windows Live Spaces, WordPress,

2. Best Seach Engine
Ask, Google, Noxtrum, Windows Live Search, Yahoo!

3. Best system of e-mail
Gmail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo! Mail,

4. Best Operating system
Ubuntu 6,10, Fedora Core 6, MacOS X 10.4.8, Mandriva 2007, OpenSuSE 10,1, Windows XP SP2

5. Best VoIP client
Gizmo Project, Google Talk, OpenWengo, Skype, Yahoo Messenger,

6. Best client P2P
Azureus, emulates, Bulging, µTorrent,

7. Best system of statistics
Google Analytics, StatCounter

8. Best reader of RSS
Bloglines, NewsGator, Google Reader, Vienna, Feedreader, NetNewsWire

9. Best Personalised Homepage
Windows Live, Google Personalized, NetVibes,

10. Best agregador of podcasts
Democracy, FireAnt, iTunes, Juice

11. Bluf of the year
Windows Live Messenger, Picassa Web Albums, AllPeers

12. Best Tool
Beagle, Beryl, Google Desktop 4, Quicksilver, Yahoo! Widget Engine

13. Best tool of security
Microsoft Windows To defend, ZoneAlarm Internet Security, Avast Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, NOD32

14. Best application Web
Google Calendar, Google Map, Flickr, Youtube, EyeOS,

15. Best application
Apple iTunes 7, Mozilla Firefox 2,0, Operates 9,0, m Skype 3,0, Windows Internet Explorer 7

Which ones you know? Which ones you use? Uhmmmm…
Now that I pay attention the majority is free… this is another subject How can be? It will last?
You can go here to the survey and vote (in Spanish), in any case in its day globber will put the results.

LCP

The drug of attention

The drug of attention

What is that does people enlist to Internet? And I am not talking about surfing but to do the enormous work that means for example to have blog like this. So why many people gets hook?

The attention. A heavy drug.

This blog is in phase beta in the best of cases, and probably it will be the times to come, always in evolution. It has few days of life, the first articles have not been more than tests, I have still not begun to put the accumulated ideas by which I began the blog. But the statistical shows already certain degree of attention. Little, very little, but already there is people out there. My reaction: put me nervous. If still I have not begun and already I am thinking about everything what I want to hang up.

I am writing this article after to have hung the review of the film this morning. Why? By the anxiety to give something in answer. I can already see that this blog could be a problem. I have to prepare myself for a weekly rate, neither the more nor the less, or it will be a devourer monster of time. I just taste the drug, a single bite, and I know that there is more…. and I like it. I thought yesterday that I finally had it done, my platform… today came to me more things for the blog…. feeds for the commentaries, putting podcast, to extend me by other platforms besides Blogger…. it is dangerous…

This will be then, the second article of today. But in the future I will try to be more disciplined.

LCP

Note: this is my first almost automatic translation. A good exercise for my poor English. some expressions are new to me, provably there are wrong, or may be not. I decided that if I like how it sounds I lived it there, or change it a bit…. Hey let’s keep the language alive and enjoy it.

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