The Next Web Award nominees
a day later than we projected, the nominees of The Next Web Awards are announced. We worked hard to get the voting system in place and we will expand it somewhat during the next days (we will show the top referrers, the last referrers, introduce a widget, and make some changes to the interface)
You can follow the award election via twitter
This is a really long list, so if you want to skip this and go straight to the voting section, please do
There we go:
Category: Entertainment (Let me entertain you!)
DailyMotion, Second Life, Joost, Metacafe, World of Warcraft, LastFM, Youtube
(GIGA, glowria online DVD rental, glowria VOD, U.[lik], Next WebStar, SpotDJ and Podshow didn’t make the cut)
Category: Company (One company, to rule them all..)
Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo Apple, Google.
(wunderLOOP and Web templates didn’t make the cut)
Category: Social (You and me)
Plaxo, XING, meebo, Twitter, Cambrian House, Cyworld, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hyves, Friendster, Windows Live Spaces, ebuddy, Dogster, LinkedIn
(Wink, Independant Index (IENS), Next WebStar, www.pocketinfo.nl, Criteo, CafeMom, SecondLifeCamp, Maya’s Mom didn’t make the cut)
Category: Disruptors (Give me your share, now!)
Pixenate, A Swarm of Angels, Sellaband, Zopa, Netvibes, Open ID, Zecco, Turn, Edgeio, Joost, 37signals
Category: Web Celeb (Who’s the (wo)man!)
Tom Anderson, Steve Jobs, Lonelygirl15, Jimmy Wales, Kevin Rose, Marc Andreessen, Michael Arrington, Tariq Krim
(Hjalmar Winbladh, Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, Jan Joost Rueb and Jeff Bezos didn’t make the cut)
Category: Beta & Stealth (Rookie of the year)
Trayle, SpendView, Sxipper, Radar, LouderVoice, Hypesphere, Mailemotion, Tipit.to, Fleck, miniRSS, Powerset, Outback online , Swoot, Wakoopa, Joost, Intense Debate, Plum, PolarRose, Freebase, Twones, Spotplex, Diigo, wunderLOOP Connect
(TV 4 Business, floorplanner, Visitopia, Second Life Project didn’t make the cut)
Category: Populizr (Show me the visitors)
TechCrunch, Slashdot, Netscape, Meneame, MyBlogLog, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Digg
(Diigo didn’t make the cut)
All nominees are also in one del.icio.us account
Tomorrow we’ll notify all nominees and explain our ‘NOT all votes are the same’ principle…..


















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20070419 7:10 am
[…] Turns out that a number of media sources are excited about Cambrian House too. Cambrian House has been nominated for The Next Web Award in the social category with the likes of Plaxo, XING, meebo, Twitter, Cyworld, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hyves, Friendster, Windows Live Spaces, ebuddy, Dogster and LinkedIn. Pretty nice company if I do say so myself. Here’s the direct link If you want to just go and vote for Cambrian House. […]