Open Web Awards – What sites would you nominate for “Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks”?

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200711281322What sites would you nominate for “Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks” 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”.

Mashable.com doesn’t yet have a post out with specific guidance, but in the information that they have sent to us to date they have indicated that this is basically “anything else”… social networking sites for communications professionals, anyone? hobbyists? specific fan sites?

Feel free to nominate any kinds of social networking sites that you think might fit this broad category. 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)

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63 thoughts on “Open Web Awards – What sites would you nominate for “Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks”?”

  5. Jim Risner

    NOMINATE – VOTIGO.COM – Votigo is an online social media platform that helps marketers engage their customers through the use of user-generated content, branded social networks, contests and promotions.

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  8. Jon

    NOMINATE – Fashmatch.com, a fashion social network where girls and woman can put together outfits and browse over them. They can also use a yahoo answers like Q&A service to get or give fashion advice. The outfit browsing capability also has a relevant social shopping offer.
    (disclosure: I am one of the founders)

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  11. John zarkadas

    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…

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  27. Jillian Kelleher

    Check out PMbuzz.com. We’ve got our act in gear!
    ++++++++++++++
    Targeting the sought-after 21-34 year old metro-regional demographic, PMbuzz.com is the world’s premiere social networking website focused exclusively on nightlife! At the forefront of a new trend toward niche social networking sites, PMbuzz.com leverages functionality popularized by mega sites like MySpace and Facebook to create a dynamic community of club goers, promoters, entertainers and venues.

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  37. Rudy Lopes

    Nominate: College-Cram.com
    College-Cram.com is social learning — a mashup of social networking and educational resources. Use our library of social learning resources along with your notes, study groups, and connections with other students to get better grades in less time.

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  51. Dan York Post author

    FYI, you all can stop nominating bakespace.com now – I get it that it’s important to you all. (Although I *am* amused by the fact that the last 4 nominations came in within 5 minutes from the identical IP address.)

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  58. awcroft

    NOMINATE MindTouch Deki Wiki for Applications and Widgets
    http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/Release/Hayes
    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 like Google Maps, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, MySQL, widgets from WidgetBox, etc.

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