1. Twitter
2. Google Chrome
3. Google Maps
4. Facebook
5. WordPress
6. iPhone platform
7. Google Apps
8. Adobe AIR
9. Hulu
10. TweetDeck
So there you have it, Twitter was the best product of 2009 according to ReadWriteWeb readers! Relatedly, Twitter desktop client TweetDeck made the list at #10.
Google had 3 products in the top 3: Chrome (#2), Maps (#3) and Google Apps (#7). This more than justifies their selection by our editors as Best BigCo of 2009.
Honorable Mentions, #11-25
The following products missed out on the final top 10, but they were all popular picks among our community. Many of them are startup products, so they can be proud to say they’re among the top 25 products of 2009 according to our readers. In alphabetical order:
- Android platform
- Bing
- DropBox (note: DropBox was missing from the original top 100, but we’re including in the top 25 due to the number of comment-votes it received on the original post)
- Evernote
- Facebook iPhone app
- Feedly
- Google Voice
- Open Calais
- Posterous
- Mint
- Spotify
- Tumblr
- Tweetie
- Wolfram Alpha
- Woopra
That’s it, the culmination of our Best Products 2009 series. Hope you all enjoyed it and we look forward to another year of innovation in web technology in 2010!
So, how many of these products do you use? I actively use 3 of the top ten and have tried 2 more. I use Twitter, Chrome, and Facebook everyday and I used to use Google Maps until I downgraded to a feature phone. Adobe AIR I have tried but don’t use any application for it regularly.
Of the runner ups I use Posterous (obviously) quite a bit and have tried out 4 of the others. I have tried out Bing, Mint, Tumblr and recently used DropBox to help Lisa share some pictures with a coworker.
Two products not on the list that I use everyday are threadsy and Streamy both of which I like a lot.
