Announcing the winners of the Open Web Awards

by Brad Linder Dec 21st 2007

The first annual Open Web Awards voting season has officially drawn to a close. Yesterday we presented the Judge's Choice winners. But we've long had a sinking suspicion that our readers are smarter than us, so we've been kind of curious to see what the results would be. And now we're ready to share them with you.

While we wouldn't be surprised to discover there may have been some ballot box stuffing in one or two categories, but this is a popularity contest, not a scientific poll. Overall we're pretty impressed with the results.

The winners will be honored at an awards event on January 10th, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

Mainstream and Large Social Networks

Netlog.com

Applications and Widgets

WidgetBucks

Social News and Social

Digg.com

Social Search

Facebook.com

Sports and Fitness

Sportme.org

Photo Sharing

Vois.com

Video Sharing

Kaltura

Start Pages

iGoogle

Places and Events

MySpace.com

Music

Pandora.com

Social Shopping

Zlio.com

Mobile

Google Maps for Mobile

Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

Cafemom.com

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jon said 3:06PM on 12-21-2007

Facebook is good for social search??? Since when? I have yet to find another website that makes social searching (i.e. dating, friends, one night stands, etc..) harder to do. I do have a Facebook account and I do log onto every now and then. The look and feel of that site makes me wonder the maturity level of the people who design the site; because it truly does look like a collaboration of middle school and high school programmers.
MySpace still is the best for social searching. The main reason why: you can see every single person's profile as long as it isn't set to private.
Facebook is definitely a step up from every other social networking site (sans MySpace); but it isn't quite as good as MySpace.

Jeff Finch said 7:43AM on 12-22-2007

I was nominated for best start page... Didn't win. Looking forward to meeting all of the winners at the ceremony.

Jeff Finch - Dailywaste.com

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