Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0
Open Web Awards : Social News and Social Bookmarking
Once upon a time the words Social and Internet weren't close friends. Oh sure, there was IRC, and you could send email to people, and if you had any friends, they might send email back. But, that was it. Not very social. Social bookmarking? Forget about it. Unless you meant creating a "homepage" with one of those little squigglys in front of your username, which we soon learned was called a tilde, bookmarking wasn't social at all. It was even sort of anti-social; I've got my little corners of this Intarweb, and you've got yours. Keep'em to yourself, thank you very much.
Flash forward about 10 years and we're sharing and socializing all over the place, and creating billion dollar companies from the pageviews we generate. Seems like someone should come up with a way to vote for the best of those "social" services, if you ask us.
Well, they have. Take the jump to vote for your favorite social news and bookmarking sites in the Open Web Awards.
You are voting for your favorite Social News and Social Bookmarking site in the Open Web Awards, a distributed contest to find the best sites on the web. The top three sites in this category will proceed to the final round starting December 17th, and there will be an awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco on January 10th, 2008.
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