Opening of the second open web Competition

Mashable announces the second sessionOpen Web CompetitionOpening. The Mashable open web competition is global oriented and aims to encourage web technology innovation. The competition is divided into 26 units, and the final winners are selected through public online nominations and voting. The first open web competition won 0.25 million votes, includingFacebook,Digg,Google,Meetup,Twitter,Netvibes,Woot!,Last. fmAndMahalo.

Competition schedule:

• 2008/11/5-start nomination
• 2008/11/19-the first round of online voting began
• 2008/12/3-last round of Online Voting
• 2008/12/16-announce the winners

26 participating units:

1. mainstream and large scale social networks (mainstream and large social networks)
2. embeddable widgets (embedded widgets)
3. blog plugins
4. social news
5. social networking applications (social network applications)
6. social bookmarking
7. Search and Social search
8. sports and fitness (sports and fitness)
9. photo sharing
10. video sharing
11. Start pages (navigation page)
12. places and events (Region and event)
13. travel
14. music
15. social shopping
16. fashion
17. celebrity and gossip
18. mobile applications (mobile applications)
19. dating and romance
20. wiki
21. politics (politics)
22. how-to
23. environmental (Environment)
24. non-profit causes (non-profit course)
25. online games (online games)
26. niche and miscellaneous social networks

This Article International Source: http://mashable.com/2008/10/06/2nd-annual-open-web-awards/