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"Open Web Awards Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, November 15th. Submit your nominations here.\nThe growth of multimedia content continues apace on the web, and 2009 is a year in which we saw Flickr's 4 billionth photo and YouTube reach an astonishing 1 billion video views per day. The combined number of views for September's top 10 most watched web series topped 93 million \u2014 and that's just 10 of the thousands of web series from amateur and increasingly professional sources alike.\nFrom dancing babies to fails to Facebook songs, YouTube keeps us entertained. It's also an agent for social change, a great tool for business, for journalists, and even for the U.S. President.\nThis year saw the Google-owned video site pass the 120 million viewer mark in the U.S., play a role in documenting the Iran election crisis, and increasingly court professional content from television shows to movies to major label music artists. It's been working on better monetizing its videos and giving back to video publishers, with revenue sharing and exposure boosts for Promoted Videos. And it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.\nIn the realm of photos, Flickr still reigns as one of the most popular social destinations for sharing images online. This year it added Twitter integration, launched a great iPhone app, added people tagging and launched a cool new galleries feature. We're glad to see one of the classic pioneer services that ushered in the age of the social web still growing and innovating. And there's easily room enough for its deep data and tagging photo storage model alongside popular Twitter photo-sharing site Twitpic's more quick and on-the-fly approach to image sharing on the web.\nThe continued growth of web series this year has also been remarkable. From shows like The Guild going into their third season and continuing a major sponsorship deal with Microsoft and Sprint, to amateur DIY phenomenons like Auto-Tune the News debuting to viral popularity, to major media outlets jumping into the game with their own original series, it's never been a better time to be an online video producer \u2014 or audience!\nVote for your favorites\n\n\n\n\nWe'd like to know your choices for Best Flickr Photographer, Best YouTube Channel or Personality, Funniest YouTube Channel, YouTube Video of the Year, Best Online Video Web Series, Flickr Photo of the Year, and TwitPic of the Year in this year's Open Web Awards.\nThe nominating process is simple, just visit the Open Web Awards site, sign in with Twitter or Facebook, and tell us your favorites. Nominations will remain open until 11:59 PM, ET on Sunday, November 15th.\nSome of the leaders in the Photo &amp; Video categories so far are (in no particular order):\nBest YouTube Channel or Personality\n- MattG124- Vlogbrothers- LoraandLayton- Shane Dawson- Shaytards- Charles Trippy- Sxephil- Jeff Takeover- Community Channel- xxxjoelpolexxx\nFunniest YouTube Channel\n- Smosh- LoadingReadyRun- ShaneDawsonTV- SHAYTARDS- Nigahiga- Friday Night Cranks- Community Channel- CardGamesFTW- Internet Killed Television- YTwatchdog\nYouTube Video of the Year\n- Iran, Tehran: wounded girl dying in front of camera, Her name was Neda (Warning: very graphic)- The Secret of the Sauce- A Very Potter Musical- The Guild - Do You Want to Date My Avatar?- Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)- The Bag Heads: Quest for the Milk- Knees Up Mother Brown- CTFxC: Surprise Marriage Proposal In Spain! (10.4.09 - Day 157) - Behind the Scenes: Mid-Autumn Romance @ Chelsea Mansion- Bounce\nBest Online Video Web Series\n- Internet Killed Television- Nostalgia Critic- The Guild- YTwatchdog- The Philip DeFranco Show- SHAYTARDS- Totally Rad Show- Angry Video Game Nerd- The Joker Blogs- Anyone But Me\nBest  Flickr Photographer\n- Shadi Eideh- Heychrissmith- Chanelle Richardson- Nickpickles- Mmitchelldaviss- Stefjosimovska- Khosey1- Stuckincustoms- AHockley- JaredEarle\nFlickr Photo of the Year\n- Mesmerized- Highspeed Water- The Canine of Rhodes- One Sad Puppy- Limitado - President Barack Obama speaks with a foreign leader in the Oval Office on his first day in office 1/21/09- Men Repairing Fishing Boat, Zanzibar- Trent Reznor- Kevin Pollak challenging Darth Vader to Space Invaders- Masificaci\u00F3n (01) por Rodrigo de Oliveira\nTwitPic of the Year\n- Plane in the Hudson- Beautiful little girl in Railton Township, SA- Social Tattoo- #cozytweetup- Pepe. The mouth that swallowed the south- Go-karting- RnR Hall of Fame- Puppets- at teh cdd reelase parrty *hic*\nThanks to our Partner: MOTOBLUR\nMOTOBLUR from Motorola was built expressly for the way people communicate today. It's the only service that automatically delivers and organizes your conversations, contacts and content from all your favorite sites and sources in easy-to-manage streams. Whether it's Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, text messages, Gmail or work e-mail, MOTOBLUR keeps track of it all and serves it up on a customizable home screen and integrates it through the phone. Plus, with MOTOBLUR you have peace of mind, because all of your info is backed up and secure. Discover MOTOBLUR on Motorola CLIQ available at T-Mobile. It's time to spend less time managing life and more time living it.\n[Image courtesy of tick followed tock on Flickr]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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