Artiklz (http://artiklz.com) (http://artiklz.com), the conversation search engine company, today announced that it has been nominated in the 2nd Annual Mashable Open Web Awards in the category of search and social search. The Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. Winners last year included Facebook, Digg, Google, Meetup, Twitter, Netvibes, woot!, Last.fm and Mahalo.
Mashable partners with over 100 blog partners, and uses Poll Daddy for extra security and ease of voting. This year Mashable extended the nominations period and voting rounds for greater
participation. Voting (http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspxf=f's38;c=7's38;cn=88) schedule as
follows:
* Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Online Voting Round 1
* Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Final Round Voting
* Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Winners Announced
* Nominations and Voting periods end the Sunday prior to the next round at 11:59 PM PST (-8 GMT).
About Artiklz
Artiklz enables Conversation Search by Capturing User Generated Conversations Across the Social Media (http://artiklz.com). Conversation Search lets you
search through all the discussions happening on the web about a particular topic. Conversation Search enables users to answer the 5 W'ss: Who, Why, When, Where, and What people are
talking about pertaining to a particular topic of interest.
In addition to Conversation SEARCH, Artiklz offers a 360 degree view for blog (http://artiklz.com) and website owners of their comments and conversation
stream, thus providing the only 2-way gateway to comments. In addition to the acquiring of comments from major blogging and commenting systems, Artiklz aggregates the various popular web
sharing/rating services (Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Yahoo! Buzz, FriendFeed, Delicious, CoRank, Diigo, etc.) comment feeds to provide a consolidated view.
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