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Open Web Awards: Social Shopping

Open Web AwardsCute shoes. Where did you get them? What do you mean you don't know where the store is? Oh, you got them from an online store.

OK, well who told you about the web site? What do you mean, you don't know? Oh, really. You found another web site where users get to submit and vote on product deals and you just followed the link. So what you're saying is that a committee of people you've never met before essentially got together and helped you find the best place to buy your shoes. Cool. We wonder if that would work for things like computers, video games, cars, books, and pretty much anything else.

One of the things that sets Web 2.0 stores apart from their predecessors is the social layer. Whether you're talking user recommendations, ratings, or reviews, the data you can find in the comments section of many online stores is often more valuable than the official descriptions. What's your favorite shopping site with a social bent?

You are voting for your favorite Application or Widget 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.

Mashable Open Web Awards
Category: Social Shopping
Sponsors:
Cohn & Wolfe PR & Mashable
Web Poll by Vizu

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

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