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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Mashable - The Social Media Guide - Latest Comments in Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.disqus.com/</link><description>Internet and Technology News - Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web.</description><atom:link href="https://mashable.disqus.com/open_web_awards_the_finals/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:28:49 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030234</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Vote for &lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.ipernity.com"&gt;www.ipernity.com&lt;/a&gt;, the coolest site for sharing photos and much more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspx?f=f&amp;amp;c=9&amp;amp;cn=105" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspx?f=f&amp;amp;c=9&amp;amp;cn=105"&gt;http://mashable.polldaddy.c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Christian</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:28:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030233</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Day #2: Vote for &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="www.ipernity.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.ipernity.com"&gt;ipernity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;!&lt;br&gt;The coolest site for sharing photos and much more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspx?f=f&amp;amp;c=9&amp;amp;cn=105" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspx?f=f&amp;amp;c=9&amp;amp;cn=105"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Vote Now! &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Christian</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:41:30 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030232</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks again to everyone that voted for &lt;a href="http://StopPoliticalCalls.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="StopPoliticalCalls.org"&gt;StopPoliticalCalls.org&lt;/a&gt; in the non-profit category.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vote here again --&amp;gt; &lt;a href="http://zi.ma/64e" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://zi.ma/64e"&gt;http://zi.ma/64e&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Best,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shaun Dakin&lt;br&gt;CEO and Founder&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://StopPoliticalCalls.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="StopPoliticalCalls.org"&gt;StopPoliticalCalls.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Shaun Dakin</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:07:18 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030231</link><description>&lt;p&gt;since i 've been introduced this site by my friend, i often using for browshing due to my job. But, i found problem in loading, longer than site which i used to utilizing...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">kartina</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:59:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030230</link><description>&lt;p&gt;mocospace is the best site ever,more completed n its not hard 2 sign in or explore it..&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2psycho</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:50:54 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030229</link><description>&lt;p&gt;@Jamay agree, mashable should post vote breakdown :) no, seriously&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ma.tija</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:09:32 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030227</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Actually Facebook was a *very close* fourth in its category.  There were very few votes splitting them from the others.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Pete</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:38:11 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030226</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Yes, we have tight controls on spam.  All votes are verified via email.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Pete</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:36:12 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030225</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Surprised that Facebook didn't make it but it's probably because users didn't know about the awards or Facebook didn't advertise it.&lt;br&gt;Happy to see Polyvore on the list though.  An awesome place to tweak and refine your design and styling skills.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">BracletSeeds</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:04:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030224</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'll be voting for you Andraz. Zemanta is an awesome application.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Nigel Eccles</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:36:34 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030219</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Glad to see Sprout in the finals! So easy to use and filled with tons of features, it's like a web based PhotoShop for building widgets. I guess you know how I voted :)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ThriveBlogger</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:23:56 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030218</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Oh Yes, &lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.ipernity.com"&gt;http://www.ipernity.com&lt;/a&gt; is in the top 3!&lt;br&gt;This is the best Photo Sharing service.&lt;br&gt;Vote for us: &lt;a href="http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspx?f=f&amp;amp;c=9&amp;amp;cn=105" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspx?f=f&amp;amp;c=9&amp;amp;cn=105"&gt;http://mashable.polldaddy.c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Marie</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:03:24 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030214</link><description>&lt;p&gt;OH MAN I WOULD LIKE TO SAY CONGRATZ TO PLATINUM LOUNGE FOR MAKING THE TOP 3 FOR MAINSTREAM SOCIAL NETWORKS. WE ARE FINALLY ON THE MAP!! NOW IN 110 COUNTRIES! HOW YOU LIKE US NOW???&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AS FOR MYSPACE AN FACEBOOK NOT BEING THERE... I CAN SEE WHY. NO ONE REALLY CARED TO VOTE FOR THEM. THEY PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THIS AWARD EXISTS. OH WELL...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WHO CARES :P&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">PLATINUM LOUNGE</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:09:38 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030211</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you for everyone who has graciously voted for (PL) &lt;a href="http://platinumlounge.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="platinumlounge.com"&gt;platinumlounge.com&lt;/a&gt; and put this online media company into the top 3 in the mainstream/social network category!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ma.tija you must be smoking something. We drop-kicked MySpace and Facebook, and you're next!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let go of the haterade!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">RICH</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:43:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030210</link><description>&lt;p&gt;It occurs to me that some sites might be down because they weren't ready for the attention (and increased traffic) of getting into the Final Round...but then, only Mashable can say how much total referral traffic they're generating now. :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In any case, congratulations to my friends at Regator for making it through.  Time to go vote...again...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Edgar Governo</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:31:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030208</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all the nominations for &lt;a href="http://www.fitfiend.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.fitfiend.com"&gt;FitFiend.com&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Vik</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:17:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030207</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Many of these sites have no traffic - and a couple are down (404).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So how are the votes decided? Was spamming controlled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Is this good for Mashable's rep?)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Robert</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:14:05 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030206</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who voted for &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikihow.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.wikihow.com/"&gt;http://www.wikihow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thousands of volunteer editors on wikiHow work hard to produce our how-to manual.  And we are delighted to be included as a finalist.  Thanks again for your support.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jack</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:08:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030204</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice group of sites...all seem worthy of some recognition.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Screen Sleuth</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:02:09 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030202</link><description>&lt;p&gt;ZOMG!! Just can't tell you how thrilled the Regator team is to have our startup recognized. Thanks SO much to everyone who voted for us. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, we'd love to hear what you think. Please stop by and take a look around. If you like what you see, please (continue to) vote for Regator in the Social News category. Congrats also to Hubdub and HARO, our worthy opponents in this category. Yay! Woot!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kimberly</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:57:45 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030201</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:54:52 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030200</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you to everyone who voted for Artiklz in the search and social search category!!! We are tremendously excited to be in the final round.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jill Malcolm</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:53:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030198</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone for voting for &lt;a href="http://regator.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://regator.com"&gt;http://regator.com&lt;/a&gt; in the Social News category to get us into the Top 3! We're stoked! Cheers!&lt;br&gt;[viddler_video=24f5eadb]&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Scott Lockhart</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:44:06 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030197</link><description>&lt;p&gt;congrats! &lt;br&gt;we would really like to view number of votes for category "mainstream &amp;amp; large scale..." :). not pretty sure about platinum lounge. where's facebook, myspace?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">ma.tija</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:30:56 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Open Web Awards: The Finals</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/12/03/openwebawards2-final-voting-round/#comment-6030196</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone for voting for &lt;a href="http://www.hubdub.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.hubdub.com"&gt;http://www.hubdub.com&lt;/a&gt;. We appreciate the love!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Lesley</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:29:51 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>