20 Companies Destined to Shake Up Information & Publishing Industries in 2007
Zimbra,
Salesforce.com, Firefox, YouTube, Facebook, Snap.com, Simply Hired and
Digg are among 20 companies that will shake up the information and
publishing industries in 2007, according to a new report from EPS, an
Outsell, Inc. company.
EPS' second annual “20 to Watch” report shows who is presenting competition and threats to traditional publishing companies’ leadership, and how the landscape of information delivery continues to be rocked.
The "20 to Watch" in 2007 in 6 Catrgories:
| Company | Category |
| Endeca | Search and data mining |
| Eurekster | |
| GlobalSpec | |
| Snap.com | |
| ZoomInfo | |
| Social networking and communities | |
| ITtoolbox | |
| Last.fm | |
| Second Life | Virtual worlds |
| Digg | Bookmarking and tagging |
| edgeio | Business models |
| Simply Hired | |
| Zillow.com | |
| Dapper | Technologies |
| Fronter | |
| Mozilla Firefox | |
| RuleBurst | |
| Salesforce | |
| Zimbra | |
| Source: EPS, an Outsell, Inc. company. | |
“Far more of the selected companies this year come from the search and technology categories,” said Kate Worlock, research director, EPS. “This demonstrates where valid, new challengers to traditional media will emerge.”
