Mashable is proud to announce that voting has begun in the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements.

 

We are in the final voting round for the Open Web Awards, thanks a lot to everybody who gave their nomination for Amazee.

Now we need your votes! So please give your vote to Amazee with the help of the badge below. You will get an email where you have to confirm your vote, so make sure you do both steps.

Thank you very much!

Greg always wanted me to post something to celebrate Amazee.com's Google PageRank of 6... so here we go:

Maybe PageRank starts singing for your Amazee projects in the future as well!

via [Google Blogoscoped]

As you might have noticed, Mashable is running the 2nd annual Open Web Awards. And the feedback so far is really awesome according to their site:

[...]

• the most successful company so far has been nominated by 3'793 people!
• 25'000 nominations in one week = an average of 370 nominations per hour since launch!
• that’s 6 nominations every minute!
• the vast majority of companies have only 1 or 2 nominations: in many categories, 3 or 4 nominations will currently get a company to the voting round
• nominations end midnight Sunday, and the sites with the most nominations proceed to the voting round...

[...]

OK, to be honest: Amazee will not be the company in the first spot -- but feel free to prove me wrong... ;-)

BUT -- I know of around 10-15 nominations for Amazee and this is cool regarding point 4. To secure our nomination go on and nominate Amazee for the Open Web Awards! 

And thanks to everyone who already voted or is just about to do so!

UPDATE: everything should be back to normal by now... up and running again! Thanks a lot for your patience and enjoy the enhancements and little features.

Amazee might have some hickups for the next minutes. We do some maintenance, roll out a couple of speed improvements, and deploy some fixes and enhancements.

Everything should be back to normal around noon CET.

As ususal this post will be updated on how we progress... stay tuned!
(And while you wait, why not nominate Amazee for the Open Web Awards?)

Dania war zu Gast bei Kanal14, dem Podcast zum Thema Web 2.0 -- im Interview erzählt sie über Amazee, Projekte und Social Collaboration.

It‘s a week since information scientist Kai-D. Lâm joined Markus‘ Technology unit exchanging his corporate-senior-software-engineering life for some startup air. As we’re sitting opposite each other I can happily confirm that he’s still alive and busy working on amazee Version 1.x. Kai, it’s a pleasure to have you powering us up another brainpower!

And for those who couldn’t keep track of how our team has been evolving to the magic 7: It’s Dania, Markus, Luci, Mathias, Daniel, Kai and myself.

Mashable is running the second annual Open Web Awards and your nominations are now being accepted:

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.

The nominations will be held from November 5th till November 16th 2008. The first and final voting rounds will be held from November 19th till December 15th.

Cast your nomination for Amazee and thanks a lot in advance!