StartUpToFinish

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0

Once upon a time the words Social and Internet weren’t close friends. Oh sure, there was IRC, and you could send email to people, and if you had any friends, they might send email back. But, that was it. Not very social.

Social bookmarking? Forget about it. Unless you meant creating a “homepage” with one of those little squigglys in front of your username, which we soon learned was called a tilde, bookmarking wasn’t social at all. It was even sort of anti-social; I’ve got my little corners of this Intarweb, and you’ve got yours. Keep’em to yourself, thank you very much.

Flash forward about 10 years and we’re sharing and socializing all over the place, and creating billion dollar companies from the pageviews we generate. Seems like someone should come up with a way to vote for the best of those “social” services, if you ask us.

Well, they have. Take the jump to vote for your favorite social news and bookmarking sites in the Open Web Awards.Continue reading Open Web Awards : Social News and Social Bookmarking

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Read More…

[Source: Download Squad]