Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. This year, we’re partnering with over 100 blog partners, Poll Daddy for extra security and ease of voting and extending the nominations period and voting rounds for greater participation.

The first Open Web Awards achieved over 250,000 votes combined between Mashable and our 50 international blog partners. Winners included Facebook, Digg, Google, Meetup, Twitter, Netvibes, woot!, Last.fm and Mahalo.

Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks

1. NetLog – Netlog is an online platform where users can keep in touch with and extend their social network. It is an online social portal, specifically targeted at the European youth. It is developed by Netlog NV, based in Ghent, Belgium. Netlog is currently available in 20 languages and has more than 35 million members throughout Europe, and this number increases every day.
2. Platinum Lounge – an online media company that rewards YOU for comments and posts about movies, music, and your random thoughts! We are in more than 125 countries and have rewarded loungers with $54,000 and counting!!! FREE!!! To begin, all you need is a PayPal account! Here is a mini-Lounge to get you started:

Embeddable Widgets

1. http://qoof.com/
2. Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.

Blog Plugins

1. ShareThis provides a widget for easily sharing content found online with others through social networks, social news sites, and other online services. Users can also email content to friends with the widget.
   The first version of the widget was launched in November 2007. …
2. AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. AddThis has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again…

Social News

1. http://www.helpareporter.com/
2. http://hubdub.com/

Social Networking Applications

1. http://artition.com/
2. http://digsby.com/

Social Bookmarking

1. http://diigo.com/
2. ShareThis provides a widget for easily sharing content found online with others through social networks, social news sites, and other online services. Users can also email content to friends with the widget.
   The first version of the widget was launched in November 2007. …

Search & Social Search

1. Scour‘s purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. By providing a platform for the user to vote and comment on relevancy, searchers connect with one another creating a true social search community, attained through innovative solutions to meet the needs of today’s web searchers.
2. http://artiklz.com/

Sports & Fitness

1. http://www.gyminee.com/
2. http://fitfiend.com/

Photo Sharing

1. http://ipernity.com/
2. http://tinypic.com/

Video Sharing

1. http://ffwd.com/
2. Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the world’s most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform..

Start Pages

1. Google search is a Web search engine owned by Google, Inc., and is the most used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.
2. http://www.google.com/ig

Places & Events

1. http://doodle.com/
2. http://muchmormagazine.com/

Travel

1. http://spottedbylocals.com/
2. http://geckogo.com/

Music

1. http://noisetrade.com/
2. http://last.fm/

Social Shopping

1. http://www.pikaba.com/
2. http://www.afullcup.com/

Fashion

1. http://coolspotters.com/
2. http://polyvore.com/

Celebrity & Gossip

1. http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/
2. http://bollyscoops.com/

Mobile Applications

1. http://evernote.com/
2. http://mocospace.com/

Dating & Romance

1. http://www.zoosk.com/
2. http://datehookup.com/

Wiki

1. http://encyclopediadramatica.com/
2. http://wikihow.com/

Politics

1. http://politics4all.com/
2. http://www.createdebate.com/

How-to

1. http://www.afullcup.com/
2. http://www.college-cram.com/

Environmental

1. http://ecomii.com/
2. http://gazelle.com/

Non-Profit Causes

1. http://stoppoliticalcalls.org/
2. http://socialvibe.com/

Online Games

1. http://playfish.com/
2. http://powerpets.com/

Niche Social Networks

1. http://thestartracker.com/
2. http://us.wadja.com/

Source: Mashable.com