Mosaic created from 1001 of those shiny 2.0 logos

Written on June 27, 2008 – 11:19 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Yeah, you saw that right: I’m vain enough to hover over our logo. And no, I’m not gonna tell you how long I looked for it.

What you see above this text, is a smart marketing tool by two Dutch guys who want to be the next KillerStartUps.com. Sytse Sijbrandij and Jelle de Bruin have built AppAppeal, a review site for web apps. They’ve created 27 categories - from aggregator to word processing -, containing very short to-the-point reviews. Like this one, about Gmail. I’m not sure it will be useful for you, but AppAppeal can definitely help out people who want to start moving their digital office to the online world.

Anyway, to promote their new site, Sytse and Jelle have spent probably too much time on this world mosaic. The idea is pretty nice and I guess it’s on its way to the Digg frontpage. Yet the execution is somewhat pointless. It would have made more sense if they had placed the logos on the countries they were originally coming from. Then it would have a meaning. Now it’s just a bunch of logos on a pile, looking like the world. Or maybe I’m just a bit pissed of because The Next Web, THE (self-proclaimed) European tech blog is placed somewhere in the Pacific. You be the judge…

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

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3 comments/trackbacks to “Mosaic created from 1001 of those shiny 2.0 logos”

Aug 9, 2008: 33 “hot” Web 2.0 companies from Holland
[...] brought to you by the guys from AppAppeal, who try to gain attention with mash-ups like this one. They succeeded for the second time now. Although I don’t agree with the background music. This song would have been more [...]

By Floris on Jun 27, 2008

I can see at least 5 next web logo’s in there :)

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By David on Jun 27, 2008

You’re right, I was looking at the map as if all of the logos are place at their origin. Ah well, they put many hours of work on one thing, and you can’t say that too often these days….

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