Open Web Awards: Nominations for widgets and applications
Gadgetell is proud to be apart of the first annual Open Web Awards. Read the post below (from the host, Mashable) to learn what they are all about and how to nominate your favorite widget/application.
Late 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 become household (well, at least Web 2.0 household) names. In fact, even USA Today has caught on to the trend, highlighting the rise of companies like iLike, Slide, and RockYou in today’s edition.
While flash widgets for things like slideshows and scrapbooks were the big success story in the first half of the year, much of the focus in the space shifted to Facebook applications this summer, with developers building tools ranging from the trivial to attempts to turn the social network into a serious business tool. Then, just last month Google threw its hat in the ring with the announcement of OpenSocial, an effort to align virtually all of the other major social networks against Facebook in application development.
With that, we open up the category for nominations. To nominate a specific widget or application, leave a comment with the word “NOMINATE” in it. Nominations will remain open until 11:59pm PST on December 4th (next Tuesday). At that point, we will tally up the nominations and enter the second stage of the competition – voting.
Wait no longer, let’s get the nominations rolling…
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I nominate getabuz - http://www.getabuz.com. Its a cool site for creating greetings with music and voice that can be loaded onto your cell phone or web page.
on November 28, 2007 at 10:50 PM - LINKI would like to nominate the social network http://www.vois.com , and what a surprise.....I work there!
on November 28, 2007 at 11:46 PM - LINKNOMINATE
I nominate DataPortability.org - lobbying for a truly open web!
on November 29, 2007 at 02:07 AM - LINKNominate :www.wishdone.com
At WishDone:
Create two profiles; your own True profile according to your real life and your own Wish profile according to your dreams and imagination.
Stay connected with your wish done community from every place in the world using our suite of communication tools from your PC, PDA or mobile phone.
Develop your own media channels to share
Enter contests to win prizes you and your wish profile dream of
Express yourself easily through advanced blogging platforms.
Get rewarded with WishDone points that will take you closer to the fulfillment of your wishes.
Interact in groups with people around the globe that share the same aspirations and dreams as you.
Support global causes and raise awareness on the issues you find interesting.
Because WishDone is beyond freedom, communication and community…
And the Wishdone community has this request: believe in your imagination and believe in yourself
Get a myth in wishdone…
on November 29, 2007 at 03:00 AM - LINKNOMINATE
I’d like to nominate SpringWidgets.com.
A widget engine that allows widget creation within minutes. The widget work on the web, desktop and in social sites like Myspace.
Thanks,
Don
on November 29, 2007 at 04:41 PM - LINKI nominate Slide’s widget on Facebook, TopFriends.
on November 29, 2007 at 11:59 PM - LINKNOMINATE
I would like to nominate Copenda - http://www.copenda.com/default.aspx
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.
on November 30, 2007 at 01:25 AM - LINKNominate - Social search - copenda , http://www.copenda.com/default.aspx
on November 30, 2007 at 04:39 PM - LINKI would like to nominate Copenda - http://www.copenda.com/default.aspx
on December 1, 2007 at 11:31 PM - LINKNominate - Social search - copenda ,
on December 1, 2007 at 11:38 PM - LINKMindTouch Deki Wiki: http://wiki.mindtouch.com/Deki_Wiki
on December 4, 2007 at 03:05 AM - LINKfor Applications and Widgets
NOMINATE MindTouch Deki Wiki
MindTouch Deki Wiki is the most popular vendor backed wiki. It is free open source software (FOSS) and is commonly used for online communities, collaboration, or for building collaborative web applications. It’s built completely on open standards (XHTML, JSON or PHP). It was the first OSI-approved commercially supported open source wiki (released under GPL 2), and is now the only open wiki platform. It has the most complete API that features 99 REST based methods and a web-service extension model that makes it possible to create mashups with many other applications, widgets, and/or data stores such as: third party services like Google Maps, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, MySQL, widgets from WidgetBox, etc.
on December 4, 2007 at 03:58 AM - LINK