Open Web Awards

Categories: Technology | Internet
    • Visitors nominate Web sites or companies and then vote to determine winners
    • Nominations: November 5, 2008 to November 16, 2008
    • Voting: November 19, 2008 to December 15, 2008
    • Winners announced December 16, 2008
    • The first Open Web Awards accrued over 250,000 votes
    • The 2008 Awards had 50,000 nominations, 80,000 first round votes and 90,000 final round votesMashable: OPEN WEB AWARDS: People's Choice Winners (December 16, 2008)
  • Mashable's Open Web Awards honor major innovations in Web technology. Companies and Web sites are nominated and voted on by the public. Open Web Awards has 100 international partner blogs which are each given one vote per category to decide "Blogger's Choice" winners.Open Web Awards: Main Page
  • 2008 People's Choice Winners

    1. Embeddable Widgets: Qoof
    2. Blog Plugins: ShareThis
    3. Social Bookmarking: Diigo
    4. Search & Social Search: Scour
    5. Sports & Fitness: Gyminee
    6. Video Sharing: ffwd
    7. Start Pages: Google
    8. Social Shopping: Pikaba
    9. Celebrity & Gossip: Oh No They Didn't
    10. Dating & Romance: Zoosk
    11. How-to: A Full Cup
    12. Online Games: Playfish
  • 2008 Blogger's Choice Winners

    1. Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks: Twitter
    2. Embeddable Widgets: Clearspring
    3. Social News: Digg
    4. Social Bookmarking: Delicious
    5. Search & Social Search: Google
    6. Photo Sharing: Flickr
    7. Video Sharing: YouTube
    8. Social Shopping: Wishpot
    9. Celebrity & Gossip: PerezHilton.com
    10. Dating & Romance: SpeedDate
    11. Politics: The Huffington Post
    12. Online Games: Playfish

  • Open Web Awards Categories

    1. Mainstream and Large Scale Social Networks
    2. Embeddable Widgets
    3. Blog Plugins
    4. Social News
    5. Social Networking Applications
    6. Social Bookmarking
    7. Search And Social Search
    8. Sports and Fitness
    9. Photo Sharing
    10. Video Sharing
    11. Start Pages
    12. Places and Events
    13. Travel
    14. Music
    15. Social Shopping
    16. Fashion
    17. Celebrity and Gossip
    18. Mobile Applications
    19. Dating and Romance
    20. Wiki
    21. Politics
    22. How-To
    23. Environmental
    24. Non-Profit Causes
    25. Online Games
    26. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

  • Past Winners

    Winners of the first Open Web Awards in 2007 included Facebook, Digg, Google, Meetup, Twitter, Netvibes, [[Woot!]], Last.fm and Mahalo.

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