CNET.com Announces First "Webware 100" Award Winners.Web 2.0 User Community Select the Hottest Web 2.0 Sites, Services and Applications http://www.webware.com/100 SAN FRANCISCO -- CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. .com (www.cnet.com), where people go to discover the latest in tech and consumer electronics and a property of CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CNET), today announced the winners of its first ever "Webware 100" Awards. The Webware 100 winners were picked by users from a group of finalists that were selected by the editors of Webware.com, a CNET site. The "Webware 100" Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovations. "True to the Web 2.0 revolution, the innovative sites and services in the Webware 100 were chosen by a community of users and our editorial team," said CNET Editor at Large, Rafe Needleman. "By leveraging the expertise of our editors, and the passion of our users, we're able to recognize the companies that are redefining how we use computers and the Internet." Below are the categories and their winners. A complete summary of the winners is available at: http://www.webware.com/100. Browsing: Firefox, Google Reader, Internet Explorer 7, Netvibes, OpenID, Opera, Safari, StumbleUpon, My Yahoo, and yourminis Communication: AIM, Gmail, GrandCentral, Meebo, Skype, Trillian, Windows Live Hotmail A Web-based e-mail service from Microsoft that is available free or paid based on message storage capacity. Formerly Windows Live Mail (for a short time), Windows Live Hotmail integrates all 250 million+ Hotmail users into one service under the Windows Live umbrella. , Windows Live Messenger Microsoft's instant messaging (IM) service, which provides text messaging, voice calling, file sharing and video phoning. Windows Live Messenger combines the previous MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger clients into one system under the Windows Live umbrella. , Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! Messenger Community: Bebo, DeviantArt, Digg, Dogster/Catster, Facebook, Friendster, Gaia Online, LinkedIn, Me.dium, and MySpace Data: AllPeers, Apple.Mac, BitTorrent, Box.net, ChaCha, Google, Pando, Windows Live Search, Yahoo! Search, and YouSendIt Entertainment: Desktop Tower Defense  This article may contain improper references to .Please help [ improve this article] by removing . , Eventful, GameGum, Homestar Runner, Line Rider, Newsgrounds, Revision3, Stardoll, Yahoo!Bix, and You Don't Know Jack You Don't Know Jack is a series of computer games developed by Jellyvision and Berkeley Systems. YDKJ, promoted as the games "where high culture and pop culture collide," combine trivia with comedy. Media: Flickr, Fotki, Last.fm, Netflix, Pandora, Photobucket, uStream.TV, Yahoo!Video, YouTube, and Zooomr Mobile: 1-800-GOOG-411, 3Jam, Google Gmail Mobile, Google Maps Mobile, Mundu Radio, Radar.net, ShoZu, SoonR, TellMe, and Yahoo OneSearch Productivity: Amazon, Basecamp, Blinksale, Craigslist, eBay, Google AdWords/Adsense, Google Calendar, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Microsoft Office Live Microsoft Office Live is an Internet-based software service designed for small businesses with fewer than ten employees launched on February 15, 2006,[1] and is part of Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. , and PayPal Publishing: Adobe Flash, Blogger, Drupal CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. , FeedBurner, Google Analytics, PollDaddy, Silverlight, TypePad, Vox, and Wordpress References: Answers.com, Ask.com maps, Geni, Google Maps, IMDB See in-memory database. , Microsoft Virtual Earth Overview Microsoft Virtual Earth™ is a relatively new technological framework, which enables development of highly-interactive online Geo-Mapping solutions, such as, for example, rather popular Live Search Maps powered by Virtual Earth™. , webMD, Wikia, Wikipedia, and Yahoo Maps Finalists for the Webware 100 awards were selected by the Webware.com editors, and the winners were picked by the site's users. Webware.com editors received and reviewed thousands of entries. Finalists were selected and featured in an online voting poll, where more than 450,000 votes were cast, which ultimately selected 10 winners in 10 categories. 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