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The Open Web Awards are currently accepting votes in all 13 categories. The Open Web Awards are presented by Mashable and about 800 blog partners (except CN, we are always a bridesmaid, never a bride!). Get out there and vote for your favorites!

The bolded selection in each category below is who received my vote. Many of these decisions were not easy as I have many favorites but I can only select one. Runner-up vote is in parens.

Niche Social Network

CafeMom, CampusBug, CollegeTonight, FilmCrave, GloCals, (OpenSourceFood), OurLikes, Realtorclix, SwitchPlanet, Wish Done

Favorite Mobile Site

Facebook for Blackberry, GetaBuz, Google Maps for Mobile, Mocospace, Tipped.mobi, Trugo, Twitter, Utterz, (WireNode), WishDone

Favorite Social Shopping Site

CrowdStorm, iliketotallyloveit, Jellyfish, Lootist, Recommendr, Skimbit, Smashingdarling, ThisNext, (Woot), Zlio

Favorite Music Site

BandsinTown, GetaBuz, GrooveShark, Gruvr, (iLike), Last.fm, Mixaloo, Pandora, TheHypeMachine, ThePeriodicLabel

Favorite Site To Find Places and Events

BandsinTown, EventBrite, Eventful, Evite, Facebook, Going.com, Meetup, MySpace, (Upcoming), ZVents

Favorite Start Page

DailyWaste, Eskobo, Favoor, iGoogle, Live, (myAOL), myYahoo, Netvibes, PageFlakes, TheWebList

Favorite Video Sharing Site

Break, GoogleVideo, Kaltura, MetaCafe, Mocospace, Trugo, Uber, (Veoh), Vimeo, YouTube

Favorite Photo Sharing Site

DotPhoto, EachDay, Facebook, Flickr, PhotoBucket, Picasa, Slide, (SmugMug), Vois, WebShots

Favorite Sports and Fitness Site

ArmChairGM, Ballhype, ESPN, Local Replay, MediaZone, (Skinnyr), Sportme, SportSnipe, Traineo, YardBarker

Favorite Social Search

Copenda, Eurekester, Facebook, Gleamd, Mahalo, Spokeo, Tipped, Trugo, VibeAgent, Wink (not enough information on these sites to me to vote)

Favorite Application or Widget

BlogRush, Flempo, Flock, Getabuz, iDesktop, Jangl, MindTouch, (Quintura), SezWho, WidgetBucks

Favorite Social News or Social Bookmarking Site

BlinkList, Del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, Newsvine, Propeller, Reddit, (StumbleUpon), Wikio, Wish Done

Favorite Mainstream or Large Scale Network

Bebo, (Facebook), LinkedIn, MocoSpace, MySpace, Netlog, OurLikes, Uber, Vois, Wish Done

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Rememeber the game of Risk? Today it’s like that game between Meebo and eBuddy. Meebo controls North America and eBuddy controls the rest of the World but overall the market is probably split 50/50. Meebo is releasing a couple stats today: 6.5 million unique users monthly at meebo.com and in November alone, 16.5 million unique users visited meebo widgets distributed across the Web by partners and users. The latter number is a bit of a stretch as it refers to widget load, not actual touching of said widget.

Meebo is also announcing support for Facebook applications via their meebo rooms, Partner Edition. Meebo notes that the following applications have already launched meebo rooms, Partner Edition: BuddyMedia, (fluff)Friends, RockYou, Slide, The Broth and WaterCooler, Inc. RockYou, a leading applications and widgets provider, launched 12 meebo rooms today for the highly-popular Facebook application Horoscopes – a different meebo room for each sign of the Zodiac. Next year the Partner Edition will begin to offer a rev share.

The other features of the Partner Edition they sent over include:

• Brand customization and Flash skinning. Partner Edition gives brands full control of the look and feel of their meebo rooms to create a seamless user and design experience between your brand and meebo technology.
• Integration with Facebook’s existing registration system. Facebook Edition authenticates logged user sessions and lets users take their registered names and user photos into the room with them, without requiring a meebo account.
• Automated capacity spillover. Designed for highly-trafficked application and canvas pages, new rooms spawn automatically when capacity is reached.
• Advertising tracking. Partners can seamlessly embed and track advertising in a room’s media queue to monetize traffic inside meebo rooms.
• Traffic and data reporting. Facebook Edition offers enhanced traffic and data reporting capability to measure campaign effectiveness and results.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 10:51 am and is filed under IM, meebo, Insights, Instant Messenger. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.