The Voting Round and the top Nominees for Open Web Awards have been launched…
Click below for the voting widget. Use it to browse some new sites and offerings you may not yet be familiar with, and then reward the best in each category with your vote:
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Voting closes on Sunday, November 30th 11:59 pm PST, so hurry now.
Nominees, feel free to shout out your entries in the comments below.
To all, which entries and which categories captured your attention and earned your vote?
LoremIpsum-Gate: Scandal in the Obama White House
We don’t do a lot of “Breaking News” here at Blog The Change, but BJ from Silver Lake tipped me off to first public mistake committed by President-Elect Barack Obama.
As you’ll see in the graphic above, his designers went live with Change.Gov before the placeholder Lorem Ipsum copy on the sign-up page was replaced with real copy, it seems.
Or… perhaps a shout out to the design community which created so many neat-o O-inspired goodies over the last 2 years. Goodies like this.
Lorem Ipsum – Common Words From A Dead Language You Can Believe In!
Seriously though, Obama f’in rules. Best. President-Elect. Ever.
Heading off to Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX this weekend. Should be, well, fun.
Here are the 10 artists I’m most looking forward to seeing:
DAY 1 / SATURDAY 11/8
Ztrip (8:10-9:40)
Atmosphere (7:35-8:35)
Deerhoof (6:30-7:30)
Dan Deacon (7-8)
Dengue Fever (2:00-2:45
DAY 2 / SUNDAY 11/9
Clipse (8:45-9:45)
Bad Brains (8:45-9:45)
Grupo Fantasma (7:30-8:30)
Kool Keith/Dr Octagon (6:30-7:15)
Black Joe lewis (2:10-2:40)
Who else is going?
Blog The Change is a proud blog partner of the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, sponsored by Mashable.
About Open Web Awards:
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.
Nominations will be held from November 5th till November 18th 2008. The first and final voting rounds will be held from November 19th till December 15th.
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.
It’s time to celebrate all that is best about the Web.
Please grab the widget from here: http://mashable.com/openwebawards/widget/
Rules are here: http://mashable.com/openwebawards/rules/
Timeline is here: http://mashable.com/openwebawards/timeline/
Please note that the nominations round is from Wednesday 9 am PST till Sunday, November 16th 11:59 pm PST.
