The winners of Mashable’s 2008 Open Web Awards were announced today. Congratulations to everyone!
Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks

Winner: Netlog
Runner-up: Platinum Lounge
Embeddable Widgets

Winner: Qoof
Runner-up: Sprout
Blog Plugins

Winner: ShareThis
Runner-up: AddThis
Social News

Winner: Help a Reporter Out
Runner-up: Hubdub
Social Networking Applications

Winner: Artition
Runner-up: Digsby
Social Bookmarking

Winner: Diigo
Runner-up: ShareThis
Search & Social Search

Winner: Scour
Runner-up: Artiklz
Sports & Fitness

Winner: Gyminee
Runner-up: FitFiend
Photo Sharing

Winner: ipernity
Runner-up: TinyPic
Video Sharing

Winner: ffwd
Runner-up: [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, Pleasure and Pain is a blog partner for Mashable’s Open Web Awards. The final voting round started yesterday at noon ET. You can vote anytime until 11:59pm ET on Sunday, December 14.
Mashable Open Web Awards

Final Voting Round – Top 3
Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks

Name:
URL:

Netlog
http://netlog.com/

Platinum Lounge
http://www.platinumlounge.com/

Twitter
http://twitter.com/

Embeddable Widgets

Name:
URL:

Clearspring
http://www.clearspring.com/

Qoof
http://www.qoof.com/

Sprout
http://sproutbuilder.com/

Blog Plugins

Name:
URL:

AddThis
http://addthis.com/

ShareThis
http://sharethis.com/

Zemanta
http://www.zemanta.com/

Social News

Name:
URL:

Help a [...]

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As I announced on Nov 5, nominations for Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards were open until last Sunday. On Wednesday, the first round of voting began (sorry for the delay in posting this).
Vote for your favorite site using the widget below until November 30th at 11:59pm Pacific Time.
Some ground rules:

One vote per category per [...]

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Pleasure and Pain is proud to be a blog partner of Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards. This is a unique opportunity for the world’s best websites and services to be recognized for their accomplishments through an open voting system appearing on blogs all across the web.
Nominations are now open!
The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards [...]

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