Open Web Awards: Call for nominations

Download Squad is pleased to announce that we're participating in the Open Web Awards. What that means is you, our dear readers, get to participate in the first ever interblog collaborative award event designed to recognize excellence in the social networking world. The Open Web Awards are the brainchild of the folks over at Mashable, and about 30 blogs are participating.

Over the next few weeks, we'll have voting rounds in several different categories. But today we're going to give you a list of categories and call for your nominations. To nominate a company or website, just leave a comment with the business name and the corresponding category. For example, if you want to nominate Hi5 in the Mainstream and Large Scale Networks category, just say so. That's all there is to it. Once we've got all the nominations in we'll add your votes to those gathered from other web sites and let you vote on the top companies in each category.

Here are the categories:

1. Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
   
2. Applications and Widgets
   
3. Start Pages
4. Mobile
5. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

Feel free to interpret these categories however you like. You can nominate a company in just one category or in all five. Please just make one selection per category. Now go forth and nominate.

Tags: open-web-awards, social-networking, social-networks