Nearly Two Million Votes Cast on Webware.com for the Hottest Web 2.0 Sites, Services and Applications

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2008--CNET (www.cnet.com), where people go to discover the latest in technology and consumer electronics information, and a property of CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET), today announced the winners of its second annual Webware 100 Awards. Winners were selected by the Webware community in an online voting poll that drew more than 1.9 million votes. The 2008 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovations.

"The amazing and overwhelming response is a testimony to the Web 2.0 community's passion towards their favorite sites, services, and applications," said Rafe Needleman, editor of CNET Webware.com. "By combining the expertise of our editors, and hands-on experience from the people who use these products every day, we've recognized the companies and organizations that represent the very best in creativity on the Internet."

Thousands of entries were received for this year's awards, and finalists were selected by the Webware editors. Ten winners were selected in 10 categories. The 2008 Webware 100 winners are:

Audio: Amazon MP3, BlogTalkRadio, eMusic, FineTune, ilike, iTunes, Last.fm, live365, Pandora, and Zune Marketplace

Browsing: Firefox, Google Reader, iGoogle, Internet Explorer 7, iphone, Maxthon, My Yahoo!, Opera, Safari, and Windows Live Home

Commerce: Amazon, Craigslist, eBay, Etsy, Google AdWords, Kayak, PayPal, Woot, Yahoo! Shopping, and Zillow

Communication: AIM, Gmail, iChat, meebo, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, ooVoo, Pidgin, Skype, Windows Live Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail

Productivity: 30 Boxes, Basecamp, Google Calendar, Google Docs, I Want Sandy, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Mint, Remember the Milk, Yahoo Calendar, and Zoho

Publishing: .Mac, Blogger, Drupal, Flickr, FotoFlexer, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Twitter, Wordpress & Wordpress.com, and Worth 1000

Search: Answers.com, Ask.com, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Hakia, Live Search, Wikia, Wikipedia, and Yahoo

Social: Bebo, Deviantart, Facebook, Friendster, Gaia Online, Google Groups, LiveJournal, Myspace, Stardoll, Yahoo Groups

Utility: Amazon S3, BitTorrent, Box.net, LogMeIn, OpenDNS, OpenID, Pando, ShareFile, Yahoo Briefcase, and Yousendit

Video: Amazon Unbox, FixMyMovie, Joost, Miro, Netflix, uStream, Veodia, Vimeo, VoiceThread, and Youtube

Winners are invited to celebrate at the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco (http://www.web2expo.com/) held April 22-25, 2008 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Webware will honor the winners with a celebration as part of the Web 2.0 Expo Booth Crawl on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. on the show floor. The Web 2.0 Expo is the official partner of the 2008 Webware 100 Awards.

    To view all the winners and finalists, go to:
http://www.webware.com/100.

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