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Nominations for Mashable’s Open Web Awards close early next week (December 4th), and I wanted to give you one last opportunity to get your sites in for consideration so leave your comments here if you are interested. I am amazed at the number of interesting submissions that I have received, whether you make it or not all of you have put together some fantastic applications and deserve to be show cased. With that in mind, I am taking a page out of Mashable’s book and presenting you with the great big list of web applications that you may not have heard of but probably should have.

Getabuz

Getabuz - Music.

Its a cool site for creating greetings with music and voice that can be loaded onto your cell phone voicemail without the phone ringing or on a web page.

The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine - Music

The Hype Machine follows music blog discussions. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love — and it all ends up here. The Hype Machine is here to make music discovery fun and get artists paid.

Grooveshark

Grooveshark - Music

Grooveshark is a revolutionary music community that rewards users for sharing their music. Grooveshark was founded by three University of Florida students hell-bent on changing the music industry, and the world, forever. Grooveshark’s goal is to compensate everyone in the value chain — from users to rights’ holders

The Periodic Label

The Periodic Label: The Open Source Record Label - Music

The Periodic Label is somewhere between COLLECTIVE and COLLECTOR. Between SCIENCE and ART. Between YOURS and OURS. We’ve spent our lives making mix tapes for friends and strangers, because how else would they realize how much ass those songs kick? And now we’re giving you music for free, because we think you need to hear it.

Wishdone

Wishdone - Niche Social Network

Create two profiles; your own True profile according to your real life and your own Wish profile according to your dreams and imagination. Stay connected with your wish done community from every place in the world using our suite of communication tools from your PC, PDA or mobile phone. Develop your own media channels to share. Enter contests to win prizes you and your wish profile dream of. Express yourself easily through advanced blogging platforms. Get rewarded with WishDone points that will take you closer to the fulfillment of your wishes. Interact in groups with people around the globe that share the same aspirations and dreams as you. Support global causes and raise awareness on the issues you find interesting. Because WishDone is beyond freedom, communication and community… And the Wishdone community has this request: believe in your imagination and believe in yourself.

Vois

Vois - Niche Social Network

A Social Networking site to connect with friends, share videos, pictures and more.

Switch Planet

SwitchPlanet - Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

Switch Planet is a social media trading network where members use their current media collection (DVDs, CDs, Games, Books) to get new stuff they want by selling what they have for our internal currency ’switchbucs’ that they use to buy/request the things they want from other members. It’s free to use and has a social network backbone to help keep traders connected.

Bandsintown

Bandsintown - Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

Bandsintown is a free online social network that aims to connect more live music fans with more live music.

Thembid

ThemBid - Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

ThemBid is a free online marketplace that guides the most qualified businesses to your doorstep for general services like home repairs.

Realtorclix

Realtorclix - Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

Realtorclix is a social network for real estate professionals and members or related fields. A brilliant combination of myspace-style connectivity and the functionality of a listing database, the site allows agents and brokers to network with and refer to one another, all while advertising their listings. In these tough times in the real estate industry, realtorclix gives people a place to work together to get the best out of the market.

Notifir

Notifir.com - Application, Social Bookmarking

Notifir makes it easier to contribute to social news networks like digg.com I’ve promoted on several sites including stumble and digg.

Spotlight

Spotlight - Applications and Widgets

Let your friends do interactive interviews with you and interview them in return. Make your personalized interviews funny, silly or serious. Take your place in the Spotlight!

Deki Wiki

MindTouch Deki Wiki - Apps & Widgets

MindTouch Deki Wiki is the most popular vendor backed wiki. It is free open source software (FOSS) and is commonly used for online communities, collaboration, or for building collaborative web applications. It’s built completely on open standards (XHTML, JSON or PHP). It was the first OSI-approved commercially supported open source wiki (released under GPL 2), and is now the only open wiki platform. It has the most complete API that features 99 REST based methods and a web-service extension model that makes it possible to create mashups with many other applications, widgets, and/or data stores such as: third party services like Google Maps, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, MySQL, widgets from WidgetBox, etc.

Called.In

Called In - Applications and Widgets

Called In is a free service that lets you record a message with your phone and have it appear instantly on Facebook. You can also listen to all of your friends messages right from your phone. Called In is a great way to keep in touch… finally, you can drunk dial everyone!

Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot - Applications and Widgets

Wild Apricot web application helps associations, clubs, online communities and other groups to maintain online membership database and professional-looking website. It provides all key tools in a single package: website, member database, member application and renewal automation, online member self-service, event registration. Website is tailored for creating a member-based and community use with social netowrking tools like private member-only pages, member profiles, blogs, discussion forums, member directory. What used to cost many thousands of dollars as a custom-built system - or required a lot of manual work by juggling together 6 separate tools now is available out of the box from $25/month, fully customizable. It can be used as a standalone system or built-in via widgets into your existing web pages.

Lyro

Lyro - Applications and Widgets

Lyro provides an open, fully searchable, and user-driven tool for professional branding on the web. In today’s global economy, it is more important than ever that each of us is discoverable online. Using technology, innovation, and user-driven features, it is the mission of Lyro to empower business people through the formation and marketing of their personal-level professional brand, resulting in improved visibility and broader opportunities.

Do My Stuff

Do My Stuff — Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

DoMyStuff is an online community where busy people can quickly find Assistants to complete their chores.

Copenda

Copenda - Social Search

Copenda is a revolutionary social people search engine that allows people to search for their soul mate or new friends in social networks and dating web sites. Copenda uniquely integrates an innovative user interface with dating site features such as personality search and social network features such as ranking, comments and tagging.

Spokeo

Spokeo — Social Search

In a week, Spokeo will soft launch. This is how it works: you provide Spokeo email addresses of people you\’d like to search for. Then it contacts about fifty sites like MySpace, Amazon wishlists, Flickr, etc and looks to see if there are any accounts with that email address. It presents the results in an RSS reader type interface and constantly checks if any changes have been made. In this way, you can keep on top of what dozens, hundreds, thousands of friends are doing in fifty sites.

Web 2.0 Roundup

It’s time to dust off this applications, put a new coat of paint on and submit them to what could be a really spectacular show. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line.

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