15 start-ups to watch in 2007

Business 2.0 Magazine produced a great list of the 25 start-ups we certainly must watch in 2007. Which of the start-ups, some are already well known, have the most potential? Here is the top 15 fromBusiness 2.0 Magazine.

1. Stumbleupon : matches users with like-minded websites. StumbleUpon is now doing the same for online video and video advertising. In December the startup launched StumbleVideo.
2. Slide: integrate your slideshows easily within a blog, rss feed of screensaver.
3. Bebo: more than 30 million members Bebo provides the users privacy for their own pages but also the opportunity to easily share content via a whiteboard.
4. Meebo: use different instant-messaging services from one spot or integrate an IM screen on your blog or page.
5. Wikia: hosting service for ad-supported community sites. Wikia uses the same software and content model as Wikipedia. Wikia is also working on an open-source and user-generated search engine.
6. Joost: Founded by the same people of Kazaa and Skype. Joost brings TV and the Internet together. Via Joost you can access video channels which you can program yourself, surf through, share playlists and chat with others who watch the same program. Web 2.0 meets the television.
7. Dabble: Here you have a tool which makes it possible to organize and share your videos in a simple way.
8. Metacafe: Here videos are judged by an audience of 17 million visitors and placed by popularity. The authors of the videos receive 100 dollar when the videos hit 20.000 views and an extra 5 dollar by every additional 1000 views. Metacafe has already payed out 250.000 to 200 authors since September 2006.
9. Revision3: Founded by Kevin Rose(Digg ). Here you can see videoshows of users (nerds) who explain difficult questions. A kind of Revenge of the Nerds but now seriously because large companies are spnsoring the programs.
10. BlibTV: Blib makes it simple to share video but also put the video on TV (VOD). BlibTV makes of the individual consumer the biggest competitor of the television company
11. FON: A Spanish start-up. Still looking for the expensive WiFi networks when you want to go online with your mobile device? FON has the solution. Fon sells wireless routers to consumers for 30 dollars. The only rule is that the FON members must open their router for other FON members. So an extra network of wireless routers throughout the world is arising. A success....yes, the FON network already contains more then 70.000 thousand hotspots.
12. Loopt: Your mobile as your best friend finder. There are more of these initiatives but Loopt is a very successful one. Receive messages when your friends are in your neighbourhood, know where they are and make contact easily. This is what Loopt does.
13. Getmobio: Widgets for your mobile phone. So just those services you want on your limited mobile screen and not every time search the whole net via your mobile. Get Taxi services or restaurant info all via widgets.
14. Tiny: FlickR for the mobile phone. It offers the opportunity to easily share the pictures you make with your mobile with others who can respond to the pictures.
15. SoonR: Search your data on your desktop PC by your mobile phone.

Which 'start-ups' you like best? I see a golden future for FON, SoonR, Joost and Getmobio. For the rest of the top 25 see Business magazine 2.0.