Today we're pleased to announce the winners of The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a 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 of websites and services in 26 categories.

Over 100 Blog Partners have helped make this the biggest Open Web Awards to date with 50,000 total nominations, 80,000 total votes in the first round, and 90,000 votes in the final round. Our blog partners come from 25 countries and are written in 10 different languages.

There were two sections in the Open Web Awards: the People’s Choice and the Blogger’s Choice. The Blogger's Choice winners, announced last week, surfaced upcoming new sites in every category; the People's Choice winners are equally diverse. We present them below.

This year's winners will be receiving the Open Web Award, thanks to Zazzle, just in time to celebrate the holiday season.

People's Choice Winners

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Now it's time to boast your win! When you receive your award, feel free to proudly display it. In the meantime, feel free to grab one of these graphics and place it on your site:

OWA Sponsors Love The Web

The Open Web Awards is made possible by our sponsors. By supporting the Open Web Awards, these companies reward and encourage innovative web technologies. We can't thank them enough for sharing our passion: building great web companies.

Platinum Partner

"PartnerUp brings small business and social networking together to create a community where entrepreneurs find the people, resources and information to grow their businesses."

Gold Sponsors

"iStockphoto is the world's leading image market and a revenue-sharing social network. Browse 3.5 million images and videos starting at $1 or become a contributor."

"With Quintura’s advanced visual-based search and analytics solution, content publishers can increase site usage while creating new ad revenues"

Prize Sponsor

"Infinite and Instant, Zazzle is the only on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands, offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products, most of which are produced within 24 hours."