At the SXSW 2010 Awards, Gowalla beat Foursquare in the mobile category. The reason might be Gowalla is using GPS data to confirm a person is actually at the stated place, whereas Foursquare does not.
Another most talked website is Cornify which had the People’s Choice Award. It generates a button you put on your blog and when the visitors click on it, it overlays pictures of unicorns over the website.
My favourite nominee was vark.com. This is a social networking website, where you can ask questions and get your answers immediately. I tried and got my answer in just two minutes. It may sound like ask.com but this website is definitely more user friendly, well designed and fast. As usual, Google saw the spark and acquired this website, which is not surprising.
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