Beta Quotient: Hungary
Good news (from a betalogical point of view): about 45% (16 of 35) of Web 2.0-ish applications from Hungary are released in beta*:
- allas.ma (job search)
- blogsearch* (a blog search engine)
- book.mark.hu (a social bookmarking site)
- del.icio.hu* (a social bookmarking site)
- dolgomvan* (a todo list manager)
- freevlog* (a video sharing site)
- hirblokk* (a news aggregator)
- hirek* (a startpage like Netvibes)
- hirlapom* (an ajax based aggregator)
- ikep* (a photo sharing site)
- internetmedia (digg style news)
- iWiW* (Hungary’s largest social network)
- jo-hely (a google maps mashup)
- keresom (video search)
- klon (a startpage)
- linklist* (digg style news site)
- linkter* (digg style news site)
- miner (a blog search engine, specialized in Hungarian language content)
- mylink (a bookmarking site)
- myVIP (a social network)
- netpresszo (a startpage and aggregator)
- noid (a short url service)
- porkolt (a video sharing site/social network)
- potkave* (a portal for cultural news)
- phrazr (social sentences)
- retard* (a video sharing site)
- series of tubes (a video aggregator)
- stock.xchng (free stock photography)
- sztarvadasz (a google maps mashup)
- videa (a video sharing site)
- videobomb (a video sharing site)
- videogizmo (a video sharing site)
- videoplayer (a video sharing site)
- videopost* (a video sharing site)
- webcsatorna* (a video magazine)
- web.zin.hu* (an aggregator for web developers)
Many thanks to Andras Barthazi from Miner who kicked-off this list and provided a lot of info.
If you are interested also check out webkett? – a new blog which tracks Hungarian web apps, and R/WW’s Top Web Apps in Hungary
(see the beta quotient for Seth Godin’s Web 2.0 List (37%), DEMOfall 06 (27%), MoMB (37%), TechCrunch (38%), web 2.0 (1 – 25%), germany (60%), rails (5%), connected innovators (83%), apps inspired by flickr (43%) and apps inspired by digg (21%))
☍ 12.12.2006