If you have been using web applications for some time, you might be aware there was a contest by CNet that recently ended, called WebWare 100 that had voters voting for their favorite applications in different catagories.
The catagories were:
- Browsing
- Communications
- Community
- Data
- Entertainment
- Media
- Mobile
- Productivity and Commerce
- Publishing
- Reference
Each category had 10 winners so to speak. I did cast a vote for WordPress, Firefox, Netvibes, Gmail, and the rest I can’t really remember 🙂 The results are here.
What I find highly interesting is the fact that many applications that I expected to do well, didn’t at all, and others whose names didn’t really ring a bell, did very well in the contest! A few very popular applications didn’t even make the list.
I dug around the search engines for answers but didn’t get any answers.
- Joomla is NOT in the list…Duh?
- StumbleUpon only scored 784 votes.
- FeedBurner polled less than 1000 votes.
- FaceBook was one of the nominees but failed to get on the podium.
- MyBlogLog not in the winners list as well!
- TypePad also received < 1000 votes…amazing.
If anyone has the answers as to why the results are as such, I would be really interested to know.
My guess is that many of the voters were just casual Web users judging from the strong results of Bebo and Gaia Online. Gaia Online garnered nearly 20% of the total votes received. This may have skewed the results. Also, 489000 votes isn’t all that much; probably many serious webmasters either didn’t bother or weren’t aware of the contest.