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.
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25peeps* is a fun tool to promote your blog. |
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2Video lets you download videos from many video sites. |
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AbeBooks is a marketplace for new, used, rare, or out-of-print books. Over 13,500 independent booksellers are selling 100 million books from around the globe. |
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Amberjack* lets you easily create site tours of your website. |
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amiando lets you plan events and manage invitations. You also can open a shop and sell tickets for your events. |
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brainR is a tool for social brainstorming. |
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Clipfish is a video sharing site. Clipfish belongs to the RTL Group. |
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Dealjaeger is a social shopping site which lets its members hunt for deals. |
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dopcast is a community for pod- and vidcasters. |
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edelight is a social shopping site with focus on gifts. |
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favoor* is a start page which lets you organize your feeds, bookmarks and notes. |
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folkd* is a Firefox extension which enriches your browsing experience in multiple ways. |
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fotolia is a stock photography site. |
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gutefrage is a knowledge community / Q&A site. |
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Hitflip lets you swap your DVDs, CDs, books, and games. |
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HolidayCheck is a platform for hotel and trip reviews with a social twist. |
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iliketotallyloveit* is a digg-style aggregator for cool, hot, beautiful stuff, preferable with a link where it may be bought. |
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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. |
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Knuddels has chat rooms on various topics. |
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Kochpiraten is a recipes wiki with social features. |
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logo-creatr* lets you instantly create Web 2.0 compliant logos. |
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lycos-iq is a Q&A community. |
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mabber* is a web based instant messenger. |
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MeinProf lets you rate your college and teachers. |
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MindMeister* lets you create, manage and share mind maps online. |
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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. |
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mite is a beautiful tool for managing your time. |
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mnemomap* is an experimental search engine. |
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musicmesh* aggregates music videos from YouTube in an interesting way. |
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mypictr* is a a picture resizing service (e.g. to to create a custom profile avatar for social networks) |
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MyVideo is another video sharing site. This one belongs to the Pro7/Sat1 Group. |
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piqs is a photo sharing site. |
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PlayMyGame* lets you create your own personalized games. |
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plazes* detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby. |
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podcast is a podcasting portal. |
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Qype is a community which enables anyone to search for & review service providers, businesses and public places. Qype recently also launched in the UK. |
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seitwert calculates the popularity of your site at various search engines. |
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sevenload is another popular photo and video sharing site. Sevenload recently launched an international version. |
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snapmania* is an online photo manager. |
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Spreadshirt* lets you design and sell your own T Shirts (and accessories.) |
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spreed* is a service for web based conferencing. |
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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. |
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teamslide* lets you give online presentations. |
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VisualOrgasm is a design community. |
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weblin* lets you create an avatar and chat with people visiting the same website. |
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WebNews is a digg-style aggregator. |
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WebSnapr* lets you capture screenshots of web pages or provide (slightly annoying) hyperlink target thumbnails. |
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Xing is a popular social network for business professionals. Xing went public in December 2006. |
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YiGG is another popular digg-style aggregator |
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zpeech* lets you comment any website on the website itself. |
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
[…] bei Blognation über den Artikel “50 Popular Sites from Germany” von Markus Spath gestolpert. Die üblichen Verdächtigen werden genannt und sind wohl auch […]
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
This is not really ordered by delicious popularity?
http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=spiegel.de&type=all
A lot more important sites are missing.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Thomas, I wouldn’t classify spiegel.de as a startup or site which belongs to the German Web 2.0 space - which this list is about. But you bring up a good point: this list isn’t exhaustive, of course.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Thanks. A good overview that might be very interesting for international readers who didn’t know about the large number of quality web services from Germany.
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Markus, that’s a point, although I doubt that Knuddels.de is either a startup or web 2.0. It’s just a chat and it’s more than 7 years old.
July 24th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Martin, Markus will have more of that for you in stock - just ask him what you would like to see and he can probably throw tons of stuff at you. ;o)
Thomas: Some older companies still can be more web 2.0ish than others and if so, they do belong in here as well.
July 24th, 2007 at 9:14 am
[…] Auf Blognation hat Markus Spath die 50 populärsten Seiten aus Deutschland aufgelistet: “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.” […]
July 24th, 2007 at 11:21 am
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July 24th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
50 Popular Sites from Germany: PlayMyGame.com…
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July 30th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
ist eine collaborative ergänzung dieser listung erwünscht?
July 31st, 2007 at 9:23 pm
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August 2nd, 2007 at 9:55 am
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August 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
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August 18th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
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August 18th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
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August 19th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Dieser SEO-Wicht klaut von Euch aber ziemlich heftig (und ist auch noch zu doof zum Übersetzen): http://www.baynado.de/blog/die-50-popularsten-webseiten-in-deutschland/
August 20th, 2007 at 6:57 am
[…] deutschen Webseiten« - die Liste ist eine Übersetzung der englischen Variante bei blognation, die die Popularität der Seiten anhand der Zahl der Bookmarks der Sites bei del.icio.us […]
August 27th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
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August 27th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I think one start-up is missing:
The best ager network www.platinnetz.de
Hallo Markus,
danke für die interessante Liste. Ich als älterer Internet-Nutzer - ein sogenannter Silver Surfer - möchte noch das Start-up Platinnetz in diesem Zusammenhang nennen. Auf der Webseite www.platinnetz.de findet sich ein Social Network für die Zielgruppe der Best Ager. Sogar das Handelsblatt hat schon darüber berichtet.
Werte Grüße
SilberBär
August 30th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
You forgot my site:) nice list though
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
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October 11th, 2007 at 3:50 am
You forgot to mention Zattoo where you can watch free German Tv…
The Life in Germany
October 17th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
This start-up (mommy network) is missing too:
http://www.mamacommunity.de
October 17th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
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November 6th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Wie wäre es, wenn man die “Beliebtheitsskala” mal nach Zielgruppen unterteilen würde?
How about a rating that differntiates between target groups?
November 6th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Charlotta - it definitely would make sense to break the list up by various criteria, watch out for more to come, the goal of this list was to provide some sort of overview on the apps from Germany.
November 28th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Social Network for the media and entertainment people.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
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December 20th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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January 5th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
YouLoadr.com is much more popular than 2video.
http://www.youloadr.com
best regards,
boris
January 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Hey,
thank you for the nice list about popular websites.
Regards from Germany,
Alex
January 16th, 2008 at 6:54 am
hello,
The list is fairly comprehensive and adopts many of the best and most popular websites together, but I personally have some not know. The wording “not yet”, in particular, I stress, because not much longer.
The compilation of like me and a place dadrin would be a supreme challenge, but it may well not have everything. At Myprof.de Weblin and I must really fit.
It’s pretty good to know that someone is busy making such comparisons and statistical tasks.
Alex greeting …
May 6th, 2008 at 10:01 am
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May 13th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
weiss nicht ob die hier schon genannt worden ist aber einer der besten seiten finde ich ist die netlog…
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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July 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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