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I think this is really incredible!
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The Awards initiative is excellent, and helps show what's going on and mobilize owners & members of social networks.
2 points I'd explore improving:
1. Giving more time for the People's Vote (as Pete mentioned)
2. Clarifying what criteria are used for the Expert Vote, and letting each candidate 'pitch' against these criteria.
Overall, terrific initiative.
Merry Xmas all!
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Looking forward to more Mashy goodness in 2007. Happy holidayz!
It has been a blast participating, thanks for including Dianovo.com.
Happy Holidays!
2007 looks to be a great year for all of us!
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Anyway, great initiative and best of luck to all the services from all of us at Twango.
Voting was open for about 48 hours in the last 2 categories. We actually got complaints that we'd extended it too long, but I agree that beginning the voting earlier in the week would have been preferable. I think BunnyHero rocks, (as Kelvin said in the post he wrote) - it's one of the most popular widgets measured over a t Mashable Labs.
Thanks for hosting this (and for Mashable period!) and to all the folks who voted for Firstgiving!
Congrats to Flixter, LibraryThing, and Dogster!
Great contest. Congratulations to all of the winners and mentions. We wish everyone the best in 2007. Thanks for everything. Happy Holidays and have a Happy New Year!
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Congrats to all the winners.
It was in this category, yoursportsfan: http://mashable.com/2006/12/20/social-networkin...
They also left some abusive messages (which were removed - kinda wish I'd left them now), but the cheating was the reason for banning the company.
Thanks for the mention and nominating us for the Places and Events category. We are honored and humbled to be nominated. Congrats to all the winners and nominees. Merry Christmas to all celebrating and a happy New Year. We are looking forward to great things from all in the New Year and more awesome bloging and great contests from Pete.
but i'm really annoyed that the people's choice winner is simply mentioned by way of zoomr- "they lost out narrowly in the voting to the media-sharing site Twango (we also gave that one a fairly positive review this year)."
let's acknowledge the proper winners next time around!
merry christmas everyone!
Did I miss reddit (http://www.reddit.com) in the Social News category? A great success story.
And as for social nets of 2007, I would definitely add Experience Project (http://www.experienceproject.com)-- networking on life experiences.
It should be multilingual as well..
Anybody working on a Network for immigration out there?
Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas from Milano !
It was nominated (see the link) - it's just that you guys didn't vote for it.
Do you know YOONO ? A social search engine based on indexing their users'bookmarks and feeds. Yoono was launched in march 2006. Yoono was awarded recommended add-on by Firefox in July and best start-up at the start-up contest in Le Web 3 last December 12. Yoono counts 250,000 users and its user base is growing 3,000 more a day. Thanks for having the opportunity to mention Yoono here. Pascal, CEO of Yoono.
Thanks for having the contest. I have a couple suggestions for improvements. The way the contest was designed it was sort of biased towards people 'with time on their hands'.
The instructions were buried in paragraphs of small type, the comment form was pages and pages of scrolling at the bottom. In the future I would suggest putting the voting area right on top, and not using something like blog comments to do it. There are embeddable voting widgets or you can use someting like wufoo to collect responses. This will ensure that people who come to the site to vote won't have to spend many minutes trying to figure out where and how to do it...because that usually causes people to leave without voting. Thanks!
Voting has to be easy for everyone or the contest will be biased...
Thanks for holding this event and for nominating Project Opus. Thanks to everyone who voted for us! We hope to win in in 2007!
Yelp is a great site, which by most accounts has flown under the radar. Great community, that is really positive and helpful. Also, a site that is just plain damn slick.
my yelp plug: http://www.ankur.yelp.com
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Perhaps next time you could provide a direct link in addition to a link to your review of the site. It would make it easier to visit the sites (ex: mashable/review).
PageBuildr lets you build and design your own website. Features friends, messages and many other features found in the best social networking sites. A new site, many more features are being added daily.
Pages are added using Page Types - including blogs, galleries, calendars, playlists, and forums. Users can create profile pages, and can comment on any page on the website. Site-wide content aggregating coming soon!
It's a me-too service with a bunch of Ajax scripts... If I wasn't in holiday I would have vote for LiveVideo. Their product is just great. The biggest problem about video sharing videos these days, is that you can't find what you're looking for. And it's what their service is about. Digging up or down videos, pretty simple UI. It's really efficient.
Granted, our coolest features can only be seen if you're a business owner (review aggregation from 3rd party sites, coupon building tools and blogs), we're still happy you took notice.
Here's to the mom and pop shops around the country!
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Do you think it is odd that in the 102 comments here...there is not one mention of Flixster? That's one of your winners. They supposedly have 7 million members but there is not a single comment about them.
Something is very shady with their numbers and their alexa page views. It just does not add up. Look at their "who's online now" section. For 7 million user base....how can there be less than 700 people online at any one time? that's .01% of their membership.
I dunno - there was a decent amount of voting for Flixster, and this post has gotten quite a few comments in the last few days:
http://mashable.com/2006/11/03/flixster-claims-...
and this one (votes for flixster):
http://mashable.com/2006/12/22/niche-social-net...
What's more, the voters seem slightly clueless, and all have unique IPs - they're real teens alright (the comments are very similar to those I get about MySpace, Bebo and the rest).
One post that does have a bizarrely low comment count is Zebo - they claimed millions of users, yet the Mashable post (2nd on Google for "Zebo") hasn't received a single comment from their members.
http://mashable.com/2006/09/18/how-the-heck-did...
It would be a shame to praise mobile products that do not utilise 3G technology and that are only 2G offerings at best. Kink Kommunity is a real mobile social media offering and is enjoyed by 100,00's of members already.
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I look forward to see your 2007 analysis. There is a lot of happening in this business. Companies are realizing the importance of social networking and fostering their services. Just take an example of www.zyb.com. Started as a free online phone data backup service but now planning to offer social networking element as well.
The world has not only become a global village in terms of information but also creating relations.
I suggest you to also analyze 2006 with the predictions of 2007. I am sure people would be stunned to see how the world is changing.
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I think the time has come to create a liason among small social networking sites. Can anyone help it?
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You add your favorite sites, search engines, and links to any kind of online content (like MP3 files, video files, etc.) and your friends get a "ride" with you to your online destinations. And when you add new destinations to a category, you and your friends receive an automatic e-mail listing the destinations for that destination.
It has a dashboard, a "keyword" compartment, a mirror (showing you online destinations you've been to and keywords you used or stored), an MP3 player, and more.
useful post, i found an social networkings site, which has just launched on 11th April of 2007, other then its social networking tools it offer lot of other utilities like browser bar with built in Radio & Live Tv section as well as Video Grabber with free converter very helpful tools for downloading and converting youtube, metacafe video without spending a penny , wallpapers, videos, music & Ring tones so much stuff, thou site is not famous yet but got awesome features .. the site is called Kangun.com
wow - so much has come about since then as far as social networking sites go.
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Anyway, great initiative and best of luck to all the services from all of us at Twango.
Great Contest. I'm really glad to see Digg up there and that they won!
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