According to yeebase, a German start-up’s success depends on the Yahoo! and Technorati API. They’ve generated a fancy algorithm that once a week pumps out a new top hundred list. Currently, social bookmarking site Mister Wong, news community Webnews, and local community service Qype are the most linked-to start-ups and thus the most successful.
Although counting in-links is a nice start – which will probably lead to more blogposts like these – it is far from enough. How can you rate customer satisfaction and engagement? The number of friends on social networks? Please post your ideas below and don’t forget to mention which start-up should have been ranked higher.
You have a good point in asking: “Although counting in-links is a nice start – which will probably lead to more blogposts like these – it is far from enough. How can you rate customer satisfaction and engagement?”
Just have a look at this research which adds some qualitative aspects to a ranking:
http://www.ethority.de/weblog/2008/11/17/ethority-startup-monitor-studivz-fallt-bei-den-usern-durch/
…and I’m happy that YiGG seems to be well positioned regarding both studies.
would be a cool idea for TNW to generate such a list over the whole of Europe and for each country separately!
I miss tape.tv (music videos) and byte.fm (radio).
Thank you, Clemens, I just forwarded your suggestion to my colleagues.
For me, and Webnews Yigg the first choice. If I were always good news for Germany Sylt Island writing RESTRICT is a backlink but then ok.