Open Web Awards: Nominations for Mobile Applications
Friday, November 30th, 2007Open Web Awards: Nominations for Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
Friday, November 30th, 2007Last but not least, a category for niche and miscellaneous social networks – companies that don’t fit neatly into the 12 categories for which we’ve already opened up nominations. Ironically, there are probably more web sites in this category than all of the others combined. This year, we’ve ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Music
Thursday, November 29th, 2007It has been a big year for music sites. Among the highlights, CBS purchased Last.fm for $280 million, iLike came out of nowhere with a strong Facebook application to become a multi-million user site, and imeem signed deals with most of the major labels to stream music for free. ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Shopping
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Social shopping is a niche that many companies are targeting for an obvious reason: there is lots of money to be made. Nonetheless, there is no clear #1 in the space, with the most notable deal this year being Heart’s $40 million acquisition of Kaboodle. Meanwhile, we reviewed ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Start Pages
Thursday, November 29th, 2007How many different options do we need for our start page on the Web? Apparently, a lot of them, as dozens of companies have launched varying ways to begin our browsing experience (see our side-by-side comparison of 14 different options). Netvibes even launched a white label version of ...
Working With PL/SQL CodeOpen Web Awards: Nominations for Places and Events
Thursday, November 29th, 2007One problem the Internet has done a wonderful job of solving is organizing events. Sending invites, keeping track of who’s going, and making sure people bring stuff has been made easier by many orders of magnitude thanks to a host of services. Evite was the early winner in ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Photo Sharing
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Photo sharing – one of the biggest and most successful areas of Web 2.0, and likely to be a hotly contested area of the Open Web Awards. Flickr recently passed the 2 billion upload mark, while earlier in the year we saw Photobucket acquired by Fox Interactive for more ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Video Sharing
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Online video has been one of the major stories of 2007, with dozens of companies receiving massive amounts of funding from investors. YouTube has maintained its #1 position since being acquired by Google late last year, but up-and-comers like Metacafe, Daily Motion, and Blip.tv are hot on their heels. ...
Completing the Syntactic Comparison of Java and C/C++Open Web Awards: Nominations for Sports and Fitness
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Do we really need social networks for sports? Lots of companies seem to think so – enough to make it a category in the Open Web Awards. The space saw a big deal early this year – Sports Illustrated purchased Fan Nation for a rumored $20+ million in ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social News and Social Bookmarking
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007We see a lot of startups enter the social bookmarking scene on a regular basis, many of which are never to be heard from again. But a few new interesting entrants have emerged this year in the battle to take on the likes of Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Search
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Despite the never-ending barrage of Google news and the dominant market share of the top four search engines, dozens of startups think they can do a better job at helping you query the Web. In fact, we rounded up a list of more than 40 of them a few ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Widgets and Applications
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Late last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be the year of the widget. Boy, were they right! Aside from the usual buzz that surrounds the likes of Google, Facebook, and MySpace, this year was dominated by stories of companies coming out of nowhere with distributed applications to ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Best Large Social Networks
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007The Open Web Awards are off and running, and over the next few days we will be opening up nominations in 13 categories. The first of those categories is “Mainstream and Large Social Networks” – the sites we’ve all heard of, frequent, and have multi-millions of users. In last year’s ...
Open Web Awards - Nominations Begin Tomorrow
Monday, November 26th, 2007The first ever Open Web Awards is almost here. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. We already have 21 confirmed Blog Partners and we expect this number to grow before the competition is over. ...
