Open Web Awards: Final Winners Announced!

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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

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Applications and Widgets

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Social News and Social Bookmarking

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Social Search

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Sports and Fitness

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Photo Sharing

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Video Sharing

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Start Pages

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Places and Events

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Music

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Social Shopping

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Mobile

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Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

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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