Best Product of 2008 (as at May 2008)

It is not even the end of the year, MSN tech has published an article on Best Product of 2008.

It is worth taking note.

I will just simply it into a listing with hyperlinks.

1. Hulu (video site, free/ad-based) -->Not popular in Malaysia yet.
   
2. Apple iPhone --> Not popular in Malaysia yet
   
3. Facebook --> Yes
   
4. Windows XP -->Very yes
   
5. Lenovo Thinkpad X300 --> Ok
   
6. Flock (browser, free) --> Not popular in Malaysia yet
   
7. Eye-Fi (wireless camera memory card, $100) --> hmm ...
   
8. Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 (digital camera, $1,000) --> hmm ...
   
9. Harmonix Rock Band (game bundle, $170) --> hmm ..
   
10. Wikipedia --> Yes yes
    
11. Netflix (DVD rental and online video site, $5/month and up) --> No
    
12. Microsoft Xbox Live (online service, $59/year) --> Not popular in Malaysia yet
    
13. Apple iPod Touch (media player, $299-$499) --> No
    
14. Craglist --> Not popular
    
15. Scrabulous (PC game, free) --> hmmm, not really.
    
16. Nintendo Wii (game console, $250) --> Getting popular
    
17. Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (operating system, $129) --> Niche market
    
18. Apple Cinema HD Display (23-inch LCD monitor, $899) -->Niche market
    
19. Twitter (social networking site, free) --> Not popular
    
20. Pioneer Kuro PDP-5010FD (50-inch plasma HDTV, $3,500) --> Not popular
    
21. Mozilla Firefox 3 (browser, free) --> Yes
    
22. Safari (mobile browser, free) --> No
    
23. NPR.org (news site, free) --> No
    
24. Photoshop CS3 (image-editing software, $650) --> Yes
    
25. Google Maps -- Street View (mapping software, free) --> Getting popular
    
26. Apple MacBook Pro (Penryn) (Laptop series, from $1,999) --> Niche market
    
27. Google Docs & Spreadsheets (Web-based productivity suite, free) --> Getting popular
    
28. Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (video production suite, $1,299) --> Niche market
    
29. Linksys Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WRT600N (wireless router, $200) --> Yes
    
30. Flickr (photo-sharing site, 200 photos free, unlimited photos and storage $25/year) --> Yes
    

My Thoughts..

• Some of the items mentioned above will definitely going to hit greater sales by year end of 2008. This is a good strategy of sales and marketing in fact.
  
• The ranking may represent USA's opinion, however in country like Malaysia, there will be some differentiation. For instance, in Korea, Google is not the biggest search engine and portal (as I was told); it's Naver. Always there will be exceptions.