Seth has done it again by providing a simple list that has a big impact. Find a list of the top 835 Web 2.0 companies ranked by traffic. There are some surprising winners and losers.We all knew that MySpace would still rule as King, but what is surprising are the sites that have either jumped way up or sadly way down. In the last 6 months, Prosper and Linkedin, jumped up triple digits in the amount of traffic that they saw. Now was that marketing or better functionality? It would be interesting to see what fueled that traffic growth.
One good site that has jumped up the list is prosper, a peer-to-peer lending site, which moved up by 302 positions. Impressive. What is more impressive, is that this is not another photo sharing service. This is actually a revolutionary and yet tribal way to connect people. In the bricks and mortar world, I would be hard pressed to fork over a few grand to a complete stranger so that they can build up their back porch or pay off their credit cards. Hard pressed is not even the word, I would laugh. Hard. But with the power of connecting people in this virtual world of ours, it is happening everyday. People are using peer to peer lending to form online co-ops and to give loans to budding entrepreneurs in Kenya. To learn more about this trend, check it out over at Springwise.
