To me, Twitter comes to mind in terms of pure excitement. The next is RSS (and not just because we do a lot of products ourselves using that – Geexoo ). I know, RSS is not exactly new, but the very aspect of everything coming to you instead of you going to everything is quite exciting. And the many widgets and stuff like yahoo pipes that let you blend RSS feeds make this domain even more exciting to me.

Apart from RSS & Twitter, mashups perhaps, but I must admit I have not used enough to say if the excitement will last!

I think it’s the epitome of web working.

Another one that gets me really excited if I stumple upon interesting resources through social bookmarking. Gives a good buzz every time!

It’s also nice to discover a web app you have not heard of. Being a photographer, I like the plugins for web-based presentations for apps like Lightroom.

It’s only going to get better! :-)

And generally speaking, it excites me that the offline world is getting closer to the online. It’s no longer geeky to have an email account – you’re a dinosaur if you don’t have one.

With that in mind, anything where an online application or website is interacting with “real life” is interesting. Where the web is actually being useful and impacts day-to-day life.

Image what would happen if more people applied this viral ability to do good instead of just having fun.

Sites like The Point where people are grouping to together make things happen is the next stage of web interaction

My first thought was, hmmmm, excitement? Not much really. I must be jaded!

Then I remembered. Music! Pre-internet, I kept lists and scoured record shops for albums, many of which I never found or wouldn’t pay 30 or 40 bucks for as an import.

I skipped the file-sharing revolution because I didn’t feel right about stealing. Then I found emusic.com and immediately found tunes I had only read about. We’re talking non-mainstream stuff.

Recently, through a long path starting from Kevin Kelly through David Byrne, I got to Aurgasm. That led me to a web of MP3 blogs that I’m still exploring – full of tunes from around the world I could never have hoped to find or hear 15 years ago.

Some of it I like enough to shell out for, so artists get a little more than they would have if I never heard them. Hopefully all the exposure and sales, even a song at a time, helps artists keep pursuing their music.

This may be a naive question, but have all these great bands always been out there, just with no way to connect to an audience outside their local area? Seems like a musical renaissance to me, courtesy of the Internet. That’s exciting.