Awards Season on the Web
It’s the end of the year, and everyone is compiling their lists of Most Memorable Product Launches of 2007, Top Search Terms of 2007, and Fastest Growing Search Terms of 2007.
Add to that two end-of-year awards for tech companies: The OpenWeb Awards and the Crunchies:
The OpenWeb Awards:
From the site:
The Open Web Awards, hosted by Mashable.com, are the first ever online, open collaboration awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0.
- Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
- Mobile Applications
- Social Shopping
- Music
- Places and Events
- Start Pages
- Video Sharing
- Photo Sharing
- Sports and Fitness
- Social Search
- Social News and Social Bookmarking
- Widgets and Applications
- Large and Mainstream Social Networks
Nominations are open until 11:59 pm PST tonight, December 4th.
The Crunchies
From the site:
Together GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch are pleased to announce that nominations for the inaugural 2007 Crunchies Awards are now open.
We created twenty award categories to recognize the year’s most innovative technical, creative and business accomplishments of key companies, products and people. We hope you’ll agree that the award categories are good reasons for celebration and fit for a proper ceremony.
- Best technology innovation / achievement
Recognition for best new technology achievement or breakthrough - Best bootstrapped start-up
For a company that has raised less than $100.000 from individuals, angels or others - Best new gadget / device
For the best new Internet-accessible electronics device launched in 2007 - Best business model
For a company that’s pioneering new revenue-creation opportunities - Best design
Recognition for best user-interface design - Best enterprise start-up
For a start-up focused on enterprise or business-to-business applications and services - Best consumer start-up
For a start-up focused on consumer-facing applications and services - Best mobile start-up
For companies who provide mobile content or mobile distribution platforms - Best international start-up
To recognize start-up achievement outside the United States (company must be founded, headquartered and operated primarily outside the US) - Best user-generated content site
For sites who rely on content created primarily from users - Best video site
For sites who distribute video and/or other rich-media content - Best clean tech start-up
For companies focused on environmentally conscious technology applications - Best use of viral marketing
For the company that has demonstrated the best use of viral marketing techniques to drive distribution - Best time sink site
Favorite site to use when you’re not working or not wanting to think about work - Most likely to make the world a better place
To recognize a site that is making an important social impact in the world. Site does not need to be a non-profit to qualify. - Most likely to succeed
Site most likely to meet with future financial success (may be defined as revenue creation, a big exit, or other future accomplishment) - Best start-up founder
Award to recognize an exemplary start-up business founder - Best start-up CEO
Award to recognize an exemplary start-up business CEO - Best new start-up of 2007
Company must have been founded in 2007 - Best overall
For the best overall site or product of 2007
Nominations open until midnight PST, December 12, and voting starts on Thursday, December 13.
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