After 250,000 votes where casted we finally can announce the winners! I would like to say thanks to Mashable for the work they contributed to organize Open Web Awards and also to every blog partner which made the awards more notable and important to community.

People’s choice
Mainstream and Large Social Networks
Netlog.com
Applications and Widgets
WidgetBucks
Social News and [...]

Remember those cheap key-chain size recorders sold on television that were good for recording short reminders? Well, Kwiry offers the 21st century version of that simple idea. Kwiry is a tool that allows you to text message reminders to yourself from your cell phone. Reminders can also be entered directly into the website. From there [...]

If you are one of those who are currently on a rush to get some last minute shopping for the holiday season, you might want to consider gBox’s Wishlist. Gbox Wishlist is an innovative service that lets you buy and receive music on social networks and other internet venues. Giving digital music as a [...]

Emptying out my wallet reveals the following contents: 1 debit card; 1 credit card; driver’s license; obligatory picture of my wife; five folded up receipts. No cash. Ever.
The problem is, folded up receipts don’t stop with my wallet. They’re everywhere! My pockets, my bureau, my car, etc. A team of [...]

A new Wordpress plugin created by Yahoo! will scan your blog posts and create informational pop ups for select Yahoo! content. For example, if you’ve written a post about “Sea Monkeys,” the plugin will search the text of your article for contextual link opportunities that corresponds to various Yahoo! properties. This content ranges [...]

UGotbling is a free accessory site for mySpace profiles that is easy to use and install to prep up your mySpace personal sites. The site offers free MySpace layouts, backgrounds, graphics, comments and other cool profile accessories.
UGotbling is different from thousands of accessory sites on the internet because of its “profile makeover” feature which allows [...]

A new Firefox extension released by Mozilla allows users to seamlessly add themes to their browser – code free!

Known as Personas, Firefox is attempting to streamline the process of finding and installing themes. With the new addition graphic designers can stylize the browser experience without the need to know code.
The ability also exists [...]

Here are second part of Open Web Awards finalists for you to vote. You cn give your vote to your favorite photo sharing, video sharing, sports and fitness site and start page. And if you haven’t voted for first part of finalists what we released yesterday you can do it here.

Star Wars edition of popular Yahoo! web messenger comes with new surprises and new bunch of stuff for any real SW fan. First thing you will notice is that messenger have nice Star Wars theme and sounds, but for me the most interesting part is the new emoticons set.
You will find thirty new emoticons [...]

We are moving forward with Open Web Awards to elect the winner in each category. In the first round of voting we have 10 nominees in each category for you to vote, but now votes have been counted and only top 3 in each category will continue to final voting round – here you go:

As you read this someone just started a blog. There’s a good chance that in this new blog’s history they’ll have some of their content lifted, permanently borrowed or stolen. Well, there’s a new sheriff in town, RightsAgent, a Website looking to protect your online content and possibly make you some money.The service gives [...]

Funcaster is a widget that lets you make your PC content available to various social networking sites and other web portals. Basically, it eliminates the need to upload your web contents such as photos, videos and other media on third-party servers just to share them with your social networks.
Instead of uploading your contents to online [...]