Mashable Open Web Awards 2008 Open for Nominations

Mashable has opened up the Nominations for this year’s Open Web Awards. The awards recognize the leading innovations in social networking, with both applications and companies in the mix. The timescale of the nominations, online voting and winner announcements have also been released:

• Voting timeline
• Rules for Voting and Nominations

The categories for this year’s awards are as follows:

1. Mainstream and Large Scale Social Networks
2. Embeddable Widgets
3. Blog Plugins
4. Social News
5. Social Networking Applications
6. Social Bookmarking
7. Search And Social Search
8. Sports and Fitness
9. Photo Sharing
10. Video Sharing
11. Start Pages
12. Places and Events
13. Travel
14. Music
15. Social Shopping
16. Fashion
17. Celebrity and Gossip
18. Mobile Applications
19. Dating and Romance
20. Wiki
21. Politics
22. How-To
23. Environmental
24. Non-Profit Causes
25. Online Games
26. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

You can vote nominate your company, application or preferred nominee using the Mashable voting form below:

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