Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has produced a list of Web 2.0 Companies [He] Couldn't Live Without, including Bloglines, Delicious, FeedBurner, Measuremap, Omnidrive, Technorati... Whoops, sorry, that was last year's list. This year the list includes Amie Street, Ask City, BlueDot, Digg, Gmail, Skype and YouTube. Seven of last year's 11 sites have survived, including Flickr, Netvibes, Pandora, and WordPress.
It's always interesting to see which sites people think are important, and that's especially the case with Arrington, because TechCrunch is fantastic at covering trendy new sites before they've become trendy. Of course, it's also rather social and very American... though I'm not sure either is quite enough of an excuse to include Digg.
There are some predictable cries, in the comments, for sites such as Reddit (Digg with reduced stupidity) and Last.fm (as an alternative to Pandora). StumbleUpon also gets some votes, though I didn't notice anyone calling for Slashdot.
The fact that these are, apparently, Web 2.0 sites makes it hard to spot omissions. Is Wikipedia not a Web 2.0 site, or not one Arrington uses, or just too obvious to mention? How about eBay and Amazon? I'd have to include all three in my own list of "most used" sites, though I'm sure I'd manage to survive without them. I also like Tailrank, ditto.
How about you? Which site couldn't you live without?
