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Filed under: Social Software[IMG Open Web Awards]Don’t forget, we’re now accepting nominations for the Open Web Awards! This is the first annual multi-blog awards event focused on social networking sites. The contest is sponsored by Mashable, who will be holding an award ceremony in San Francisco in December. We’ll have a few voting rounds coming up in the coming weeks, but round one is a call for nominations. We’re asking you to come up with a list of your favorite companies in 5 categories

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Social Search is a hot topic during the last months. Many players are competing in a more and more tough market. Which is your favorite? For more information on “social search”, please take a look here. [IMG Openwebawards] Leave a comment on this post (or on this one as well) with your nomination. [IMG] luca filigheddu, nominations, open web awards, social search If you liked this article, please buy me a coffee! Share This [IMG] [IMG]

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Filed under: Social Software[IMG Open Web Awards]Download Squad is pleased to announce that we’re participating in the Open Web Awards. What that means is you, our dear readers, get to participate in the first ever interblog collaborative award event designed to recognize excellence in the social networking world. The Open Web Awards are the brainchild of the folks over at Mashable, and about 30 blogs are participating. Over the next few weeks, we’ll have voting rounds in several different cat

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There’s a video clip of Twitter on CSI that has been making its rounds. I don’t watch the show (I watch very little television), but the scene features the dialogue between two detectives as they search the Twitter account of a homicide victim. From the Clip: Detective 1 - “Some people just don’t value privacy.” Detective 2 - “They don’t expect privacy. They value openness.” As I’m preparing for a digital citizenship/media literacy presentation with Dean Shareski tomorrow, I’ve been thin

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[IMG 200711281322]What 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 in

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[IMG 200711281322]What sites would you nominate for “Social Search” 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”. As noted in the Mashable.com post on this category: Despite the never-ending barrage of Google news and the dominant market share of the top four search engine

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[IMG 200711281322]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,

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[IMG 200711281322]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”. As noted in the Mashable.com post on this topic: We see a lot of startups enter the social bookmarking scene on a regular basis, many of which are n

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[IMG 200711281322]What sites would you nominate for “Mainstream and Large Scale 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”. As described in this post on Mashable.com, this category is for the large networks: In last year’s social networking awards, Pete wrote “

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