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If I were to identify just the 41 categories, this article would become rather long and list-like.  If I were to mention each of the “over 200” websites involved, you’d hate me.  So I’ll simply report that SEOmoz has announced its 2007 Web. 2.0 Awards, and perhaps hit a few of the highlights while I’m at it.

A key metric typically used to measure blog popularity is the number of bloglines subscribers or feedburner subscribers. These measures give an idea of the number of subscribers you have to your RSS feed. In theory, this represents your “subscriber core” and indicates how ’sticky’ your content is. You might think this blog fares abysmally, according to Text Link Ads “Blog Juice” calculator.

The winners of the first ever YouTube Video Awards have been announced, and ninjas and treadmill-hopping pop stars, among others, ruled the day.  Almost as interesting is the amount of attention the awards have gotten in the mainstream media. MSNBC, ABC, and FOX.  Newsday, the Chicago Sun Times, and the New York Times.  Even sources in Australia, Britain, and Italy have reported on the outcome.  If anyone still had doubts about how well-known Google’s pet project has become, let those lists erase their misgivings.

Yahoo has built a site for the Brick Awards, which recognize the achievements of people under 25 who have made a positive social impact on their community. The site will feature a voting campaign to decide which 4 people will receive a $15,000 community grant towards their cause.

YouTube has rolled out the red carpet for its first YouTube Video Awards, which will honor the creative achievements of the YouTube community.

Randy Morin ran his KBCafe Blog Awards again for 2006. In the SEO Blog category, Barry kicked ass again (while on vacation no less) as predicted.

Website promotion is not an easy task, because thousands of new websites are created each day, each of them striving for a position in the first engine results, some using ethical techniques, others try to fool the search engines.

The Java Community Project Program Management Office disclosed the nominations for the 2006 JCP Program Annual Awards in five categories.