The winners of Mashable’s 2nd annual Open Web Awards was announced Dec 16, 2008.  The Open Web Awards are a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. By way of an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services in 26 categories.

Twitter appeared to be the frontrunner for the “Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks” category, but the European social portal Netlog took that honor.

People’s Choice Winners Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks

Winner: Netlog Runner-up: Platinum Lounge

Embeddable Widgets

Winner: Qoof Runner-up: Sprout

Blog Plugins

Winner: ShareThis Runner-up: AddThis

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