The voting in the first ever Open Web Awards is over and Vizu has validated the results. We look forward to meeting all the winners and nominees at the Open Web Awards live event on January 10th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. A final thanks to our blog partners, sponsors and most importantly everyone who nominated and voted - in excess of 250,000 votes and nominations were cast!
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1. PEOPLE'S CHOICE
Without further ado, here are the 13 winners in each respective category of the People's Choice component of the awards. These were nominated and voted on by readers of Mashable and partner blogs.
Mainstream and Large Social Networks
Applications and Widgets
Social News and Social Bookmarking
Social Search
Sports and Fitness
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Start Pages
Places and Events
Music
Social Shopping
Mobile
Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
2. JUDGE'S CHOICE
These sites were chosen from the nominees list by top bloggers from more than 30 of our partner blogs. This is a confirmation of the results posted earlier this week.
Mainstream and Large Social Networks
Applications and Widgets
Social News and Social Bookmarking
Social Search
Sports and Fitness
Photo Sharing
Video Sharing
Start Pages
Places and Events
Music
Social Shopping
Mobile
Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Once again, a thank you to our sponsors:
Reddit.com - Reddit.com is a social news aggregation website where readers, not editors, determine the top stories.
WIRED - WIRED is the first word on technology, exploring how ideas fueled by innovation change the world.
Cohn and Wolfe - Our PR partner and co-producer.
Quintura - Quintura makes you control your web search. You will find what you want as quickly as possible.
RetailMeNot - The RetailMeNot.com community saves you money by sharing 50,000+ coupon codes for 10,000+ stores.
Streakr - Discover more of the web you love together with Streakr.com
A Big Thanks to Our Blog Partners