The Next Web Awards: Not Your Usual Awards!
The Next Web Conference started an award (The Next Web Awards) this year. It is the ONLY award in the world that you get for future accomplishments. We selected a bunch of start-ups and people and nominated them for the different sections.
But not only the award is different. The voting system is quite special too. You don’t just vote once but can empower your vote.
Vote in all 8 categories and we will double your votes.
Use the ‘Send a Friend’ feature and we will again double your votes.
Add the Widget to your site or blog we will again triple your votes.
If you play along you can actually upgrade your 8 votes times 12.
The philosophy is that all people are NOT created equal and some votes are more important than others. Help spread the word and your vote will become more important. Because I blog and people read my blog my vote is more important than someone who doesn’t spread the news.
No word yet on wther this will be implemented in general politics too but I voted in all categories, emailed my friends AND added the Widget to my site here.
Do me a favor and click on the Next Web Award Widget in my sidebar and vote too…
Here is the (copy pasted) list of nominees:
Entertainment (Let me entertain you!)
DailyMotion, Second Life, Joost, Metacafe, World of Warcraft, LastFM, Youtube
Company (One company, to rule them all..)
Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo Apple, Google.
Social (You and me)
Plaxo, XING, meebo, Twitter, Cambrian House, Cyworld, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hyves, Friendster, Windows Live Spaces, ebuddy, Dogster, LinkedIn
Disruptors (Give me your share, now!)
Pixenate, A Swarm of Angels, Sellaband, Zopa, Netvibes, Open ID, Zecco, Turn, Edgeio, Joost, 37signals
Web Celeb (Who’s the (wo)man!)
Tom Anderson, Steve Jobs, Lonelygirl15, Jimmy Wales, Kevin Rose, Marc Andreessen, Michael Arrington, Tariq Krim
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
Populizr (Show me the visitors)
TechCrunch, Slashdot, Netscape, Meneame, MyBlogLog, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Digg
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Boris, I had this badge on my blog: but then I broke it and had to re-install it. Can’t find the code to this widget anywhere. Have a suggestion?
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