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I thought I would run a little experiment here on Crenk, and actually try to predict which sites will be included in this years Webware 100.

If you have any thoughts on my predictions or even better if you want to challenge me on actually getting the highest amount of correct predictions, then please either leave a comment or contact me direct. Anyone who is interested in the challenge please comment and im willing to give out some free promotion to anyone who beats me, so name your terms!

Anyways, without further adieu here are my predictions.

Audio

• AmazonMp3
• Grooveshark
• Anywhere.FM
• iLike.com
• Last.fm
• MOG
• Pandora
• Seeqpod
• Splice Music
• Mundu Radio

Browsing

• Techmeme
• Google Reader
• Bloglines
• Firefox
• Flock
• Adobe AIR
• Silverlight
• iPhone
• Netvibes
• Safari

Commerce and Events

• Amazon
• Craigslist
• Ebay
• Etsy
• Farecast
• Kayak
• Oodle
• Meetup
• Paypal
• oDesk

Communication

• Gmail
• Jaxtr
• Campfire
• ooVoo
• Plaxo
• Skype
• Windows Live Messenger
• Zimbra
• Windows Live Hotmail
• Meebo

Productivity

• Basecamp
• Etelos
• Google Docs
• Google Calendar
• Long Jump
• Mint
• SalesForce
• Quicken Online
• Wesabe
• Zoho

Publishing and Photography

• .MAC
• Blogger
• Drupal
• Flickr
• Feedburner
• Picnik
• Pownce
• Wordpress
• Zooomr
• Twitter

Search and Reference

• Answers
• Ask
• Google
• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Hakia
• Live
• Wikipedia
• Yahoo
• Mahalo

Social

• Bebo
• Del.icio.us
• DeviantArt
• Digg
• Facebook
• Ning
• Myspace
• LinkedIn
• Geni
• Google Groups

Utility and Security

• Amazon S3
• Bit Torrent
• Box
• DropSend
• Mozy
• OpenID
• Webex
• YouSendIt
• Flektor
• Carbonite

Video

• Blinkx
• Fix8
• Joost
• JumpCut
• Kyte
• Mogulus
• Ustream
• Viddler
• YouTube
• Vimeo

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Voting is now open for the Webware 100. This is one of web awards that actually means something. You can head here and cast your votes. There are 10 categories looking for votes:

• Audio: Music, podcasts, audiobooks.
• Browsing: Browsers, start pages, RSS readers, widgets, runtime engines.
• Commerce and events: Retail, auctions, travel, real estate, concerts, conferences.
• Communications: E-mail, chat, voice.
• Productivity: App suites, to-do lists, groupware.
• Publishing and photography: Blogging, content management, photo sites.
• Search and Reference: Search engines, encyclopedias, mapping.
• Social: Social networking, family sites, recommendations, online worlds, contests.
• Utility and Security: Infrastructure providers, storage, online protection.
• Video: Video storage, playback, streaming, editing, and animation.

I will be discussing my votes in the coming week or so.

The Crunchies happened last night and here are the winners. All this information has been pulled straight from Techcrunch, so make sure you head over there to see some of the after party, etc.

The ceremony went (mostly) smoothly with a couple of surprises amongst the results. For a full list of nominees, visit the Crunchies 2007 portal here.

With so many blog awards out there these days, are there any actually worth winning? Well if there is one that stands out, it has to be the Weblog Awards (Bloggies).  If you think Crenk is actually worth of one of these great awards, please head over to the site and put in your nominations, it would be greatly appreciated.

Open Web Awards Nominations are now live. In this post I will list the Categories in which you can nominate.

To nominate please leave a comment in the following format: Nominate - Category - (company you wish to nominate). Nominations will be open until midnight Tuesday the 4th December! Once nominations are closed, we’ll tally the most nominated web sites, confer with Mashable, then open up voting for the winner on December 6th.

Nominations will be followed in the coming weeks by 1st Round of Voting and then a Final Round of Voting.

Categories are as follows:

1. Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
2. Applications and Widgets
3. Social News and Social Bookmarking
4. Social Search
5. Sports and Fitness
6. Photo Sharing
7. Video Sharing
8. Start Pages
9. Places and Events
10. Music
11. Social Shopping
12. Mobile
13. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

As mentioned to Nominate just comment!

Nominate - Category - (company you wish to nominate)

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It is getting towards the end of 2007 and the website awards seem to be coming out of the wood work, but really are any of them worth winning?

Awards:

• CNet Blog 100
• Mashable Awards
• The Crunchies (wow, cant take this one seriously!)
• Weblog Awards
• Bloggies
• And so on….

It seems like the list of useless blog awards never stops. What do you actually receive from winning one of these awards? Additionally, have you noticed that it is mostly the same websites winning or nominated for all the awards! This all seems to be because of traffic numbers which will push everything. Hence winning awards like these dont push traffic to your site, but the opposite you need the traffic to push the awards.