The Open Web Awards
have been created to recognize the best online communities on the web. In the spirit of collaboration, instead of building a central site to handle nominations and voting, Techdirt and its readers, along with 30 other blog communities, have been invited to be part of the nomination process. It sounded like a fun idea, so we decided to give it a try.
The contest recognizes sites in 13 different categories:
- Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
- Applications and Widgets
- Social News and Social Bookmarking
- Social Search
- Sports and Fitness
- Photo Sharing
- Video Sharing
- Start Pages
- Places and Events
- Social Shopping
- Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
If you would like to nominate a site for an award, please do so in the comments
with a subject in the form of "NOMINATE: [category name]: [site name]" -- nominations will be compiled the evening of Tuesday, December 4th, after which a few rounds of voting will commence.