The Results are in! Webware 100 Awards 2008
April 25, 2008 – 2:28 pm
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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Over 1.9 million votes were cast for the 300 finalists of Webware 100 Awards this year. These finalists were selected (by Webware editors) from a pool of over 5000 qualifying nominees.
Congrats to Amazon.com, who took 1st place in Music, Video and Podcasting, Commerce and Events!
Firefox is the new leader in web browsing so it’s no suprise that it came in 1st for Browsing. Hats off to Bebo and Deviant Art for winning in Social Media; AIM for Communication Service and Answers.com for Searches and References.
Just slightly more than half of all the votes cast in the Webware 100 went to the top 10 vote-getters. Six of these top 10 are no surprise at all: Facebook, Firefox, Google, iTunes, MySpace, and YouTube.
Many of the winners this year were also Webware 100 winners last year, although the tough competition did knock some of last year’s winners off the list (thankfully, otherwise the results would be quite boring). Next year we’ll do more to give startups and new products a chance to win an award.
I was surprised to see Digg not garner a winning number of votes. Likewise with Plaxo and Ning, two strong companies with active social networks.
And personally, I really wanted Blist or Mixx, which is brand new, to win an award, but being great isn’t enough to win a popular vote - you have to be known. Oh well, 2009 is just around the corner!
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