It worked before, so they’re doing it again: Webware is launching its second Webware 100 Awards, honoring the people’s choice for the best Web 2.0 apps and services. There are 10 categories for awards in the Webware 100 including audio, browsing, video, publishing and photography, communications and more. Each category will have 10 winners in it.

The first stage in this contest is a nomination phase, so if you know of a site that you want people to vote on, nominate it now. Nominations will close on 25 January 2008.

As a warning, there’s no need to nominate a site more than once or to encourage friends to nominate an application or site that you’ve already nominated. Save those efforts for the voting phase, which will be announced after Webware has processed the nominations. Visit the site to learn more.

Lunarpages Web Hosting is holding a WordPress Theme Contest, open to everybody, where first prize is $1,000 and 5 years free web hosting. The object of the contest is to create the most creative, unique, out of this world WordPress Theme and post it for the community to vote on. 2nd place is worth $300 and 3 years hosting and 3rd place is $100 and 1 year hosting. The contest officially begins 10 December and ends mid-February. Visit the site to learn more!

ite.com has averaged over 10 million page views per month with over 1.77 million unique visitors. TVS Holdings, LLC owns two affiliate sites www.thatnewssite.com and thatimagesite.com, that provide entertainment, news and images for the ThatVideoSite.com targeted demographic, who spends an average of 20 minutes per day on the sites. TVS has also announced that it will soon be providing movies, music, and video gaming.

HURRY - deadline is 4 December 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

About TVS Holdings LLC: Founded in 2005 by Sergio LoDolce, a 19-year-old undergraduate at Ohio State University, and currently comprised of a diverse team of Internet and business professionals with over 75 years of combined experience, TVS Holding, LLC acquired the ThatVideoSite business in March, 2007.

Lunarpages is running a WordPress Theme Contest, where you come up with the coolest, prettiest, and “most out of this world WordPress Theme.” In exchange, you may win five years’ hosting and $1,000 cash. Or, you might win less than five years’ hosting and a little less money. Either way, you get the recognition and fame associated with being listed on Lunarpages’ PR7 blog, via their PR6 Newsletter, in their forums, and pretty much viewed by thousands and thousands of customers and WordPress enthusiasts all over the world.

Each week starting December 10th, they’ll highlight the top 5 favorites and give the Lunarpages’ community the chance to vote via a poll on the blog for a favorite theme of the week. The winner of the weekly poll is guaranteed a position in the final 12. There will be 6 weekly polls, with the last poll taken between 14-20 January 2008 (so you’ll want to have your entry in by 14 January at the latest). In addition, Lunarpages will include another six entries, with winner to be announced in February. Visit the site to learn more.

ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes. With an annual competition, it’s never too late to join the 30,000+ students worldwide who have participated since 1996. Start thinking!

This competition is open to students age 9-19. The top 5 teams in each age division receive laptop computers and a cash award for the coach’s school. In addition, the top 3 teams in each age division travel to ThinkQuest Live, an educational extravaganza celebrating their achievements. A special award is also presented to the team best demonstrating global perspectives. Deadline for submissions is 2 April 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The Web Marketing Association has announced the launch of its sixth annual Internet Advertising Competition. The awards competition is open to all organization and individuals (advertising and interactive agencies, corporate marketing departments) involved in developing Internet advertising.

Awards will be presented in seven industry categories and advertising formats; online ads (including banners, pop-ups or interstitials), rich media online ad, email message, online newsletter campaign, micro-site (landing page), integrated ad campaign, and ads clients did not choose. Entries will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting and use of the medium.

Entries may be submitted online at www.iacaward.org. The deadline for entry is 31 January 2008.

Via: Webwsite Magazine