Below are the finalists for the first 4 categories for the Open Web Awards. You have between now and Thursday, December 20th at 9pm PST to vote! The winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

The four categories in batch 1 include:

Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
Applications and Widgets
Social News and Social Bookmarking
Social Search

The Remaining two batches will be publishes here throughout the day, so check back to vote on those as well. Best of luck to everyone.