I was going through the Social Networking Awards @ Mashable and I found it pretty interesting to mention here specially when they are very well categorized. It is worth giving a look and you will find many websites which you considered to be at the top of social networking, missing from the list like Orkut, Hi5, Reddit etc. Here is the list of winners and nominees (directly picked from website) –
1. Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
MySpace, Multiply
Hot for 2007: Bebo, Vox, Facebook, Facebox
2. Widgets and Add-Ons
Slide.com, Zwinky
Hot for 2007: RockYou, Stickam, Snocap, Zingfu, MyBlogLog
3. Social News and Social Bookmarking
Digg, Trailfire
Hot for 2007: Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Blinklist
4. Sports and Fitness
FanNation, Takkle
Hot for 2007: SportsVite, Ultrafan
5. Photo Sharing
Flickr, Twango
Hot for 2007: Zooomr, Webshots, ImageShack, Tabblo, Pickle, BubbleShare
6. Video Sharing
YouTube, Gotuit
Hot for 2007: Metacafe, Motionbox, Revver, vSocial, StupidVideos, Blip.tv, iFilm, Eyespot
7. Startpages
Netvibes, Pageflakes
Hot for 2007: YourMinis, Protopage, Webwag
8. Places and Events
Yelp, CollegeTonight
Hot for 2007: MingleNow, HeyLetsGo, Planypus, ILCU (and others)
9. Music
Last.fm, ReverbNation, MOG
Hot for 2007: Pandora, YourSpins, Rapspace, ProjectOpus, iLike, Splice, MusicHawk and More
10. Social Shopping
Etsy, ThisNext
Hot for 2007: Crowdstorm, Kaboodle, ShopWiki, StyleFeeder
11. Mobile
Twitter, Wadja
Hot for 2007: Friendstribe, JuiceCaster, Zingku, Moblabber, Zemble, Veeker, Treemo
12. Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
Flixster, Dogster, LibraryThing
Hot for 2007: SneakerPlay, MothersClick, Motortopia, Minti, ComicSpace, Curbly, MyChurch, Ziki, VeryLiberating, ITtoolbox, Fanpop, ShareYourLook, FamilyThrive, Blubrry, innerTee, Listal, ConnectingMoms, FirstGiving, RealityAllStarz, CafeMom, BeGreen, AdFemme, Dianovo, eLifeList, CampusBug, SnehaH, HumanOpinion, MerchantCircle, Barrio305, GenevaOnline, MDJunction (list too long to post images!)