What sites would you nominate for “Applications and Widgets” for the Open Web Awards? As I described earlier, this site is one of the places you can nominate candidate sites. Please do so by leaving a comment with the word “NOMINATE” at the beginning followed by a dash and the site name. For instance “NOMINATE – Facebook.com”.
This category is by far my favorite and I’m looking forward to seeing what sites people nominate. As noted in the Mashable.com post:
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.
In short, this should be a wide open category with dozens if not hundreds of companies that feed into the social networking ecosystem to consider nominating.
What applications and widgets do you like best? Please feel free to make multiple nominations – and if someone else has already nominated your site, please feel free to leave another comment with the same nomination. (Mashable.com has asked us to pass along the number of nominations we receive for each site.
Let the nominating begin! (Nominations will be closed at 11:59PM Pacific time on Tuesday, December 4th)
Technorati Tags: applications, mashups, openweb, openwebawards
Quintura search cloud widget (go to http://www.quintura.com, make a search and embed a search cloud to your blog)
Nominate :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…
Nominate iDesktop.tv
Its a cool new web 2.0 application for searching, storing and recommending videos. It has a great UI, and user friendly functionality, plus a wide range of downloading options.
http://www.idesktop.tv
Nominate iDesktop.tv
Its a cool new web 2.0 application for searching, storing and recommending videos. It has a great UI, and user friendly functionality, plus a wide range of downloading options.
http://www.idesktop.tv
NOMINATE – podhandle.com It is a complete webbased podcasting solution. Very userfriendly UI. It automates the podcast publishing and creates a widget to integrate on a website or a blog. With all the elements users need to get the podcast.
Nominate Flempo (http://flempo.com)
Nominate – Jangl
Nominations are now closed. Thank you for participating.