---
title: "Web Apps Around The World"
date: 2006-07-31
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Web Apps Around The World

[Business 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/)‘s latest print issue has a nice feature on Web 2.0 apps around the world. From [ Nooked](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://www.nooked.com/) in Ireland to [ Zoho Writer](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://www.zohowriter.com/) in India to [ Gnoos](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://www.gnoos.com.au/) in Australia – it’s an excellent overview of some of the web action happening outside of Silicon Valley. The Business 2.0 article isn’t online yet, but you can view it via [ Olive ActiveMagazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://digital.business2.com/) (pg 106).

As the article notes, a lot of worldwide web 2.0 apps are copying successful Silicon Valley products (a point I made in my recent posts on [ German](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_ten_german.php) and [ Dutch](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_dutch_web_2.php) web apps). But also there’s a lot of innovation from these international startups – “taking a familiar idea to the next level”, as B20 puts it. The start pages market is a good example, as [Netvibes](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://www.netvibes.com/) (French) and [Pageflakes](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://www.pageflakes.com/) (German/Aus) are leading the field in terms of innovation.

[Via Nooked blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20110904223347/http://blog.nooked.com/archives/2006/07/nooked_profiled_1.htm)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_apps_around.php))*