Artiklz Has Been Nominated for Mashable Open Web Awards

Conversational search provider in contention for Web 2.0 award

Irvine, CA (PRWEB) November 20, 2008 -- Artiklz (http://artiklz.com) (http://artiklz.com), the conversation search engine company, today announced that it has been nominated in the 2nd Annual Mashable Open Web Awards in the category of search and social search. The Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. Winners last year included Facebook, Digg, Google, Meetup, Twitter, Netvibes, woot!, Last.fm and Mahalo.

Mashable partners with over 100 blog partners, and uses Poll Daddy for extra security and ease of voting. This year Mashable extended the nominations period and voting rounds for greater participation. Voting (http://mashable.polldaddy.com/widget/x2.aspx?f=f&c=7&cn=88) schedule as follows:

* Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | Online Voting Round 1

* Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | Final Round Voting

* Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | Winners Announced

* Nominations and Voting periods end the Sunday prior to the next round at 11:59 PM PST (-8 GMT).

About Artiklz

Artiklz enables "Conversation Search" by Capturing User Generated Conversations Across the Social Media (http://artiklz.com). Conversation Search lets you search through all the discussions happening on the web about a particular topic. Conversation Search enables users to answer the 5 W's: Who, Why, When, Where, and What people are talking about pertaining to a particular topic of interest.

In addition to Conversation SEARCH, Artiklz offers a 360 degree view for blog (http://artiklz.com) and website owners of their comments and conversation stream, thus providing the only 2-way gateway to comments. In addition to the acquiring of comments from major blogging and commenting systems, Artiklz aggregates the various popular web sharing/rating services (Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Yahoo! Buzz, FriendFeed, Delicious, CoRank, Diigo, etc.) comment feeds to provide a consolidated view.

Media Contact:

Jill Malcolm

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