Choose your 2009 Finalists – Vote For Webware 100

This year–the third year CNet has done the Webware 100–they had about 5,000 qualifying submissions from which they selected the final 300. These are 300 very strong Web apps, spread into 10 groups of 30 each. They have a new arrangement of voting categories this year, including the important Location-based Services category for apps that provide local info, as well as mapping products. They also combined two 2008 categories, Publishing and Community, into a new category, Social and Publishing, recognizing that today, writing is a two-way activity. Publishing is, by nature, social.

Visit http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/categories.html for voting

There are 10 categories you can vote in you are encouraged to vote in each. The top 100 Web 2.0 apps are selected by Webware readers and by the users of the products we cover. Vote for your favorite products to give them a chance to win Webware 100 awards. There are 10 categories you can vote in you are encouraged to vote in each. Note: There will be a special 11th category where Webware editors select the best products in unique categories, such as Rookie of the Year. These will be announced, with the rest of the winners, on April 19.

# Audio and music: Music streaming and download, podcasting, audio book services, recommendation systems.
# Browsing: Tools to access online content, including browsers, start pages, RSS readers, widgets, and runtime engines
# Commerce: Retail, auctions, marketplaces, travel, event tickets, and real estate
# Communications: E-mail, chat, voice
# Infrastructure and storage: Web app platforms and tools; online storage and synchronization products
# Location-based services: Mapping, friend finders, business locators, geographic services (new category for 2009)
# Photo and video: Photo storage, sharing, and editing; video storage, playback, streaming, editing, and animation
# Productivity: Tools for work and organization
# Search and reference: Data and ways to find it; search tools and knowledge repositories like wikis
# Social and publishing: Social networking, shared online environments, content management, blogging, and micro-blogging
# Editors’ awards: To be announced, but these will include awards for up-and-coming products, design, innovative use of technology, and so on

About
http://www.about.com
A collection of how-to guides and informational articles, written or sourced by experts.

Ask
http://www.ask.com
Lets users search the Web for links, images, videos, driving directions, and news, along with local city listings and shopping links for products.

Blogrunner
http://www.blogrunner.com
Aggregates news from blogs and organizes it by what’s buzzing.

Citizendium
http://en.citizendium.org/
A Wiki-style encyclopedia with entries that are fact-checked and written by community members who use their real names.

Delver
http://www.delver.com/
A social search engine that creates a graph of how you’re connected to friends, family, and other people on the Web.

eHow
http://www.ehow.com
Tells you how to do just about everything with how-to guides written by experts.

Fluther
http://www.Fluther.com
Lets users ask questions and get them answered by an online community. Features asking via IM and viewing responses coming in in real time.

Evri
http://www.evri.com
A semantic search engine that attempts to show how things are connected by linking together multiple results.

Freebase
http://www.freebase.com/
A human powered database that can power developer-created applications.

Google
http://www.google.com
The most popular search engine on the Internet, lets users search the Web, blogs, images, and more.

Hakia
http://www.hakia.com/
A semantic search engine, a technology that lets users search the Web using everyday word combinations.

Howcast
http://www.howcast.com/
User-created how-to videos that are built with professionaly-created templates and play on a video player that breaks up each step into a segment.

Inquisitor
http://www.inquisitorx.com
A search helper tool. It works on multiple platforms from desktop browsers to the iPhone.

Instructables
http://www.instructables.com
Lets you purchase advertising based on keywords or phrases you choose.

Live Search
http://www.live.com
Microsoft’s free Web search tool that plugs into various Microsoft Web properties as well as general indexing for pages all over the Internet.

Mahalo
http://www.mahalo.com/
A search engine where the search results are created by humans. It’s also a live news site where paid contributors post news briefs.

Scour
http://www.scour.com

SearchMe
http://www.searchme.com
A search engine that presents the results in large thumbnails that can be navigated like album covers.

Techmeme
http://techmeme.com/
Tracks the latest tech news from all around the Web and updates throughout the day.

Technorati
http://www.technorati.com
Tracks stories around the Web and organizes them on a news page. It also gives each post authority based on how many other blogs are linking to it.

Twitter Search
http://search.twiiter.com
Search engine (formerly Summize) lets users search user tweets in real-time and view words or topics that are trending.

Web MD
http://www.webmd.com
An encyclopedia of medical information and advice, from prescription medicines all the way to medical procedures.

WikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
Provides user-generated and maintained Wiki articles about how to do things.

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org
A free online encyclopedia. Instead of being authored by a select group of editors, Wikipedia can be edited by anyone anywhere, and at any time.

Wink
http://www.wink.com/
A free people search engine that lets you find individuals by first and last name, and by where they live.

Xoopit
http://www.xoopit.com
Scours your e-mail in-box to help you find and organize attachments.

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo’s front page is an ever-changing collection of links and information, and soon the home of third-party apps and services.

Yahoo Boss
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
An online real estate agency that matches sellers up with buyers and provides a localized agent to help them sell.

Yahoo Search
http://search.yahoo.com/
The second most popular search engine in the world, it indexes Web results, images, video, and more.