Open Web Awards

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

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

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

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

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

• Official Site: Open Web Awards | The Winners

• Mashable: OPEN WEB AWARDS: People's Choice Winners (December 16, 2008)

• Mashable: 2nd Annual Open Web Awards: NOMINATIONS OPEN! (November 5, 2008)

• Graphic Design Basics: 2nd Annual Open Web Awards (October 16, 2008)

• Ustream: Mashable Open Web Awards

• Live TV : Ustream