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Open Web Awards: Judge's Choice winners
While you've been busy casting votes for your favorite online communities in the Open Web Awards, the folks behind the scenes at Download Squad, Mashable, and 29 other participating blogs have been casting votes as well. Tomorrow we'll have the complete list of of winners based on your votes. But it turns out it's a lot easier to tally up a few dozen votes than tens of thousands, so today we bring you the Judge's Choice winners.
Mainstream and Large Social Networks
Facebook
Applications and Widgets
Flock
Social News and Social Bookmarking
Digg
Social Search
Mahalo
Sports and Fitness
ESPN
Photo Sharing
Flickr
Video Sharing
YouTube
Start Pages
Netvibes
Places and Events
Meetup
Music
Last.fm
Social Shopping
Woot
Mobile
Twitter
Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
FilmCrave
Let us know what you think of our choices in the comments.
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grant.robertson said 4:31PM on 12-20-2007
Yay! and congrats to the judges choice winners! We've had a blast working with the guys at Mashable to keep this show on the road, and I'd like to say a huge thanks to them all for the effort. It isn't as easy as it looks.
I still say Vimeo deserves the video award way more than YouTube, but what do I know?
One thing, it does show how hard it is to get traction in an established web 2.0 niche. Sane upload limits, pretty interface, less noise, amazing video quality and real HD vs. Chocolate Rain. Winner? Chocolate Rain, by a landslide. Sigh.
I still love you, Vimeo.
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