With three months to spare, PC World has released an inventory of the best 100 tech products of 2005 to less than lackluster response in the blogosphere, the tech-soldiers of which contend its contents are old news.
As in some other areas of life, finishing first isn’t always finishing best, and the e-zine is being harshly called out on the matter. Bloggers are wondering if PC World is farther from than sun than Earth.
The top ten list includes:
Mozilla Firefox
Google Gmail
Apple Mac OS X Version 10.4 (Tiger)
Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router and Notebook Network Card
Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW
Alienware Aurora 5500
Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Drive
Skype
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
PalmOne Treo 650
Nathan Weinberg, at his Inside Google blog, is, to understate, unimpressed.
“The list is truly awful, putting the iPod Photo at #78 but not including the Nano at all (because its just a late list), while the Rio Carbon, the player so bad that its brand went out of business, is ranked at #13,” said Weinberg.
As he and another blogger point out, it seems a bit early to release a “best of” list in September, and it lacks some serious players in the tech and search sectors, most conspicuously, Yahoo!.
“How can Google (yes, just Google) be on the list but not My Web 2.0? How can no local search engine be represented? (Copernic desktop and Google Desktop are both there.) How can My Yahoo!, with its robust and transparent RSS integration, be ignored in favor of the A9 toolbar?” asks Brad Hill at The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog.
