We’ve just been notified that we’ve also been nominated for a Best Design Award at the European Tech Awards. There are some great websites in the category so we’re extremely pleased to even be nominated for such an award. If you’d like to help us out then click here to place your vote. Again, there’s no need to register and it only takes a few seconds to cast your vote.

Thanks again for your support.

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Techcrunch Europe is hosting the European Tech Awards next month in London and we were pleased to hear today that Hubdub has been nominated for Best European Web Application.

If you’d like to vote for us (and of course we very much hope that you will!) then click here to vote (no need to register, just click on Hubdub then scroll down and click the Vote button at the bottom of the page).

Thanks!

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Hubdub is up against media monsters such as the BBC, Sky, The Telegraph and Reuters - we’ve all been shortlisted for the Association of Online Publishers’ award for innovation, taking place on June 2nd in London.

The shortlist is:

Band In Your Hand - BBC
CluedUp - Telegraph Media Group
guardian.co.uk message for Obama - Guardian News & Media
Hubdub.com - HubDub
Reuters Davos World Economic Forum Coverage - Thomson Reuters
Sky News - Templated Graphics - BSkyB
Telegraph Mobile Application - Telegraph Media Group
The Economist Debate Series - Economist Group
The Feelings 24 Hour Challenge - Global Radio

It looks like the “glitterati of digital publishing” will be there, and  it will no doubt be a very glamorous and prestigous event. We’re absolutely thrilled to be short-listed. But how’s a wee start-up supposed to compete with the BBC et al when the cost to attend the ceremony is £300? All donations gratefully received…

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Although Heath Ledger has been receiving significant Oscar Buzz for well over a year, best picture speculation for the Dark Knight has been slightly more muted.  Major blockbusters rarely star at the Oscars, with notable exception #1 film Titanic, which won a record 11 Oscars including Best Picture — Dark Knight stands at #2 all-time in box office receipts with a chance for #1 after its re-release in January. 
Expert pundits have consistently placed Dark Knight ‘on the bubble’ for nomination, giving it a roughly 50/50 shot of being nominated, up from a lower (approximate 35% chance) earlier this year. What changed? Well a couple of things.. 1) Warner Brothers launched their “For Your Consideration” campaign which seemed to energize the DK Best Picture buzz and 2) Some of the other top contenders for the spot were underpreforming at the box office and with critics.
InTrade predictors have similarly been gradually edging up DK’s chances, from 30% to near 50% currently — closely in line with the expert panel predictions. But while the experts waited for these developments, predictors at Hubdub pushed initial predictions for a DK nomination to 70% immediately.  Why are Hubdub’s predictions so much higher? Two possible explanations: 1) They are overly-exuberant about a movie the majority of them loved 2) They are more correctly reading the buzz levels of this movie among Academy voters.  

Oscar Buzz: Will ‘Dark Knight’ be nominated for Best Picture?

January 22 will tell us whether InTrade’s cautious progression or Hubdub’s ebullient predictions were more accurate.

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Image by FrogStarB via FlickrDecember is truly the awards season. We’ve been shortlisted by DrinkTank as a finalist in the best UK start-up outside London. DrinkTank is London’s top start-up social event organized by the guys from Huddle.

The UK start-up scene tends to be very concentrated on London but there are some strong contenders in the category. Slice of the Pie is a very interesting music market place where you can buy a stake in an emerging artist. Fav.or.it is quite a cool RSS/news reader (who would get my vote in the best URL category).

Before you go checking that out what made the top 5 remember to vote here.

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It looks like Hubdub is proving to be quite a challenge to Digg.com, last year’s winner of Mashable’s Open Web Awards for Best Social News site. According to Mashable’s blog post today:

In the week since kicking off the voting round of The Open Web Awards, there have been nearly 40,000 votes cast across our 26 different categories. In Social News, last year’s winner Digg is seeing strong competition from upstarts HubDub and HARO (Help a Reporter Out).

Could Hubdub steal Digg’s crown? Our loyal Hubdubbers are certainly behind us and have been registering their vote daily. Register your vote for today below - just enter your email address and you’ll be sent a confirmation email. (The competition rules mean that you have to vote every day!)

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Hubdub has been nominated for the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards hosted by Mashable. According to their site:

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.

The first Open Web Awards achieved over 250,000 votes combined between Mashable and our 50 international blog partners. Winners included Facebook, Digg, Google, Meetup, Twitter, Netvibes, woot!, Last.fm and Mahalo.

Nominations will be held from November 5th till November 16th 2008. The first and final voting rounds will be held from November 19th till December 15th.

We are thrilled to be included in such esteemed company, and so need all our Hubdubbers to nominate us through to the next round.

Nominating takes seconds - simply Click Here, select Social News category from the drop down box, enter Hubdub and your email address, and Bob is your proverbial uncle.

Any takers on creating a Hubdub question on it?!

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