Richard McManus on the Read/Write web has looked so far at the top web apps in China,Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia and Spain. I’m not sure where he’s planning on covering next, nor quite what his criteria are. Certainly, for the UK offerings, other than the Newspaper sites, I’d not heard of most of the rest.
The Observer recently produced a list of the 15 most influential websites in the World, with a slight UK focus – and I *had* heard of all of them!