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Top 20 most significant E-Commerce developments of the last 10 years

Not satisfied with the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA)’s recently released list of ‘Top 10 most significant E-Commerce developments of the last 10 years’, I added some of my own:

SIIA'S TOP 10
1. Google (Sept. 1998)
2. Broadband Penetration of US Internet Users Reaches 50 percent (June 2004)
3. eBay Auctions (Launched Sept. 1997)
4. Amazon.com (IPO May 1997)
5. Google Ad Words (2000)
6. Open Standards (HTML 4.0 released - 1997)
7. WiFi (802.11 launched - 1997)
8. User-Generated Content – Blogs, Youtube, Flickr, social networking
9. iTunes (2001)
10. BlackBerry (1999)

My additions:
11. Craigslist
12. Legal downloaded music – iTunes
13. P2P – Napster, Kazaa, Skype (VoIP)
14. Spammers and Scammers
15. Online Identities and Identity theft
16. Aggregators: Google news
17. Bookmarking and Voting: Del.icio.us, Digg
18. The Bubble of 2000 and the impending bubble
19. Wikipedia (although the SIIA’s list includes UGC, Wikipedia deserves a special, separate mention
20. Mobile Networks

What are your choices?

Labels: innovation, top 10, trends

posted by Pramit Singh @ 1:52 PM