Archive Page - The Next Big Web Thing Version 1

The first version of Next Big Web Thing attempted to be more of a competition, polling sort of site. We run it for around 6 months in this manner, during which time there were 4 big votes and a number of entries of a single site per post style.

Now that the format has changed to a more personal blog style, I didn't want to cut the pages that serviced the old model completely adrift, so I thought I'd archive them via here. The archive will act as an insight into our first 6 months, when I personally feel we helped promote and uncover some exciting new web projects - the quality of the 4 vote winners should testify to that.

Monthly Pages And Vote Winners

January 2006 blog archive page
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February 2006 blog archive page - both fed into the first vote.

March 2006 blog archive page - The second vote.

April 2006 blog archive page - The third vote.

May 2006 blog archive page - The final vote.

June 2006 blog archive page
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July 2006 blog archive page - vote failed to happen for these months.

Past Winners Page - see the results of the four votes, along with a quick summary of the appeal of the winning sites.

August 2006 marked the start of V.2 of The Next Big Web Thing.

The actual Monthly Poll page has gone - to get rid of the PHP stuff that was running it and free up a MySQL database for someone more needy than I.

FAQs

Basically, when we were running the monthly votes - this was all you needed to know about taking part. Read the old FAQs.

Meet The Team

The project was initially started as a group blog - having a number of eyes looking for interesting web stuff was always going to be more interesting than having just one set - so I spoke to a number of people I knew professionally and asked them to contribute. They all were in agreement, but unfortunately, it never really took off. Had it, these would have been the regular team members.

Nominees Page

If a site made it to a blog post, we offered them the chance to show off the fact with a badge. The could choose either a swanky chicklet or a typical small badge to display on their sites. They could get them on our nominees page.

And finally

And that's version 1 of The Next Big Web Thing - it was fun! Even though the competition has finished, stick with us as we'll be adding a few little extra sections to the site - and keeping a hall of fame for the sort of sites we see that would have gone into the competition.

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