More and more everyday applications are available online and our Best web application award recognises them. Last year, YouTube dominated by making streaming video globally popular. But this was the year where social networking took off. Last year MySpace exploded but the audience matured in 2007 and flocked to Facebook. Everyone in our office is addicted to it. You probably are too. It's an obvious winner this year.
Google Maps has been around for some time, but it continues to go from strength to strength. You’d be hard pressed to find any website that uses maps without a Google Maps widget embedded; allowing you to pan, zoom and move around easily. Househunting, party-locating and restaurant searches have never more straightforward, and you can even get it on your phone thanks to mobile maps. Other considerations included 3's X-series, simpsonizeme.com and Carbonite online backup.