Brian King of BeeTooBee.com has surveyed 287 Web 2.0 startups that were posted on the TechCrunch forum, coming up with his own “2007 Web 2.0 Idol”.

His measurements were compiled within a time length of 40 days and based on 2 aspects i.e. the interest of the forum community with how many views were made and the number of comments on the thread.

It wasn’t a surprise to see that the top 2 startups fitted the current trend of the web - a video feed multimedia site (in the style of YouTube) and a content sharing Digg-like site. The most popular categories were social networking (with 39 companies) followed by Search (27) and Media Sharing (21). The lack of unique startups surveyed makes me wonder how many of them were started to jump on the bandwagon without proper thought and business models. It is indicative of how saturated the web is with social networking, search and media sharing sites.

Brian certainly did a good job and the list was pretty interesting. However, I thought that several other measurement factors could have been added in the mix i.e. how much it was talked about on Google, its visual appearance and functionality.

The full list with each startup’s info can be seen on the BeeTooBee site.

Web 2.0 Idol List [BeeTooBee]