Open Web Awards: Nominations for widgets and applications

Posted November 28, 2007 at 08:31 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Computers, Software / Applications, Web, Web 2.0, Features, Announcements

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…