Open Web Awards – Lets Have Some Action

34 Comments / Social Media / By

Nominations are now closed! – To vote for your favourite see here

Open Web AwardsThe Open Web Awards are now open for nominations until the 6th December, and this stage of the proceeding is quite open plan.

The current 30 blogging partners (increasing daily) have been provided with a list of categories to accept nominations for, and it is down to each blog to decide how to proceed with collecting nominations, whether to make individual posts for each category, or to handle things from a single post.

Voting will take place in a much more refined manner.

  1. Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
  2. Applications and Widgets
  3. Social News and Social Bookmarking
  4. Social Search
  5. Sports and Fitness
  6. Photo Sharing
  7. Video Sharing
  8. Start Pages
  9. Places and Events
  10. Music
  11. Social Shopping
  12. Mobile
  13. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

I have already posted about this on my solo blog with an emphasis on blogging tools and widgets, but so far I have had a very lacklustre response.

Emphasis here is going to be placed on other categories, but that doesn’t restrict you nominating in multiple categories and you are allowed to make nominations on multiple blogs taking part, so you make the same nominations here, on my solo blog, and on the other 28 blogs taking part, though some may have less friendly guidelines.

  • Has the exponential growth of Sphinn impressed you?
  • Are you a Stumbleupon addict?
  • Are you Stirring it up on Mixx?
  • Are you a devout (or immoral) Digger?

We just can’t stick to social news however, don’t forget how important Facebook, Twitter, Pownce etc are becoming in your daily online lives

How do you fire up your day?

  • IGoogle
  • MyYahoo
  • Netvibes
  • Pageflakes?

How To Nominate

We are going to make this easy to avoid multiple comments

I am going to allow up to 3 nominations for each category, just add an additional line with a nomination if you want to nominate say more that one widget or niche social network.

Just because someone else has already nominated a site doesn’t mean you shouldn’t also nominate it. If they end up with nominations for 100s of different widgets, I am sure there will have to be some filtering, so your additional votes will be important.

I have made it easy to copy and paste the code.

If you don’t want to nominate a service for a particular category, then just delete the line.

Don’t forget you can also nominate again over on my solo blog, and elsewhere.

34 thoughts on “Open Web Awards – Lets Have Some Action”

  1. Lizi

    My Nominations
    Copenda – http://www.copenda.com/default.aspx – (Social Search)

    Copenda is a revolutionary social people search engine that allows people to search for their soul mate or new friends in social networks and dating web sites. Copenda uniquely integrates an innovative user interface with dating site features such as personality search and social network features such as ranking, comments and tagging.

  2. dave

    My nominations:

    Digg – http://www.digg.com – (Social News and Social Bookmarking)

    Yes a lot of non-news make it to its frontpage but if something gets over 2,000 diggs it must be worth checking it out!

    Wikipedia Random Article – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random – (Start Pages)

    Perhaps the best way to learn something new everytime you surf the Internet for mindless pursuits.

    The Thinking Blog – http://www.thethinkingblog.com – (Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks)

    Not sure if I could nominate this since it’s a blog but I’d like to think of it as a social network where “thinkers” come and share their knowledge.

  3. Andy Beard

    Dave I am not going to be restricting based upon perceived notions of what qualifies to be part of the Open Web, and have had a few nominations of blogs on my own blog.
    If Ilker can get lots of nominations, I think it will be well deserved.

  5. BillyWarhol

    1) Google + Gmail

    2) http://www.Feedjit.com + http://www.Jiglu.com + http://www.FineTune.com + Flickr Flash + Zeitgeist Badge Widgets

    6) Photo Sharing http://www.Flickr.com – Still thee Shining Light of the Web2.0 Universe! + Overlooked Social Network that puts MySpace + Facebook etc. to shame* ;)) It is also a Fabulous place for All Bloggers to Post Amazing Photographs + Visual Images to their Blog Quickly + Easily!! Again putting PhotoBucket + ImageShack in the also ran categories*

    7) http://www.VBS.tv Brilliant Videos!!

    10) http://www.FineTune.com + http://www.RadioBlogClub.com

    I’m not sure what Category http://www.MyBlogLog.com + http://www.BlogCatalog.com fall into? Blog Networking & Best Way for Small Bloggers to Increase Traffic + Tons of Great Info + Interesting People + Blogs to Read*

    I also love http://www.coComment.com

    Cheers Everybody! Billy ;))

    Peace*

  11. Adam

    My Nominations
    The Periodic Label: The Open Source Record Label – http://theperiodiclabel.com – (Music)

    The Periodic Label is somewhere between COLLECTIVE and COLLECTOR. Between SCIENCE and ART. Between YOURS and OURS. We’ve spent our lives making mix tapes for friends and strangers, because how else would they realize how much ass those songs kick? And now we’re giving you music for free, because we think you need to hear it.

  14. Pingback: Supporting Your Most Valued Communities Without WIIFM | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

  17. Pingback: Mashable Awards at Collective Thoughts

  22. Melody

    My Nominations are…
    MyBlogLog – http://www.mybloglog.com/- (Applications and Widgets)
    StumbleUpon – http://www.stumbleupon.com/ – (Social News and Social Bookmarking)
    Propeller – http://www.propeller.com – (Social Search)
    flikr – http://flickr.com/ – (Photo Sharing)
    YouTube – http://youtube.com/ – (Video Sharing)
    Netvibes – http://www.netvibes.com/ – (Start Pages)
    iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/ – (Music) For the podcasts & radio
    Wists – http://www.wists.com/ – (Social Shopping)
    Utterz – http://www.utterz.com – (Mobile)& audio
    Twitter – http://www.twitter.com – (Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks)

    I can’t believe I belong to all these sites and many more!

  23. Dane Morgan

    BlogCatalog http://blogcatalog.com/ (Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks)

    This should be interesting to monitor. I know that I for one don’t use social networks nearly as much or or as well as I should. I recently gave in and registered at sphinn, though I’ve yet to submit a story. I have a couple accounts at del.icio.us that I use for various niches I’m in. I simply don’t have time for more than one really involved community, and for me that has come down to BlogCatalog for a number of reasons, mostly selfish, I am compelled to admit. I’m too much a fan of Adam Smith, I suppose.

  27. Tyler

    My Nominations

    SmugMug – http://www.smugmug.com – (Photo Sharing) Amazing design and UI.
    VodPod – http://www.vodpod.com – (Video Sharing)
    Yelp – http://www.yelp.com – (Places and Events) I couldn’t live without Yelp (I travel a lot).
    Last.fm – http://www.last.fm – (Music) Awesome inspiration. Love the compatibility meter.
    Stylastic – http://www.stylastic.com – (Social Shopping) This might be best in niche and miscellaneous because it’s not selling any products directly, but shows you shops in your area based on your style (Yelp API w/ Google maps) and apparel as described in the photo (through TheFind). A true mashup.

  31. Ian Kennedy

    My Nominations
    MyBlogLog – http://mybloglog.com – (Applications and Widgets)
    digg – http://digg.com – (Social News and Social Bookmarking)
    facebook – http://facebook.com – (Social News and Social Bookmarking)
    delicious – http://del.icio.us – (Social News and Social Bookmarking)
    ligit – http://lijit.com – (Social Search)
    nike plus – http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/ – (Sports and Fitness)
    flickr – http://flickr.com – (Photo Sharing)
    YouTube – http://youtube.com – (Video Sharing)
    upcoming – http://upcoming.yahoo.com- (Places and Events)
    last.fm – http://www.last.fm – (Music)
    etsy – http://www.etsy.com/ – (Social Shopping)
    dead.net, social network for Grateful Dead fans – http://dead.net – (Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks)

  34. Pingback: Bountiful Buffet of Bookmarks :: JMorris Online

Comments are closed.