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Five Websites to Keep an Eye On

New web companies surface every day, but just as many disappear. To become popular, you have to be innovative and based in California. Here are five sites to keep an eye on:

1. Blogmusik- A France based site that lets you listen to music, free, using their flash player or embeddable player. Even though Blogmusik doesn’t have the rights to play most of the songs they host, they still have a chance to become popular, especially among the MySpace crowd. Blogmusik’s music selection is extensive, but if you can’t find what your looking for, you can always upload it to the site. Registering, saves playlists and ratings for listening later on another computer.Why it will become popular? It’s like having your iTunes library accessible wherever you go and best of all it’s free.

2. Vimeo- A video service and social network that moves away from video hordes like YouTube. The site design is simple and a refresh to all the cookie cutter video sites out there. Vimeo is more focused on users making friends and sharing video, than finding the next viral hit.Why it will become popular? It’s a mix of two extremely popular areas of the web, video and social networking.

3. Kongregate- An Xbox Live-”esque” flash game service that focuses on quality games and a community. Developers can also make bank by submitting their games to Kongregate. Challenges are also a great way to get visitors to come back and earn points/cards.Why will it become popular? It’s like Xbox Live for flash games. Points could be used for exclusive content and/or prizes.

4. dnScoop- A great web tool for assessing your website or blog. Dnscoop aggregates statistics from other sites, (ie Alexa traffic, PageRank, domain info) and puts it into one central place. Dnscoop also “prices” your site, but take that feature as a grain of salt.Why will it become popular? Blogging/web stats are important and to have all of them in one place is promising.

5. Videoegg- Advertising is HUGE. Online video is HUGE. Combing the two in streamline way and you have a hit. Videoegg incorporates advertising at the bottom of video, and from the demo, is executed in a cool way. If done the right way Videoegg could become the new standard of video advertising.Why will it become popular? Advertising on top of web video is a sure fire way to get a product or name heard.

To become popular in an already saturated web market you have be on the cutting edge. Time will prove if any of these sites will become popular.