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We are all very excited by winning the NextWeb award for Best Weblog.

The other winners in the Next Web Awards, (over 127,000 votes online for all categories) were:

• Entertainment: Last.fm (UK)
• European Company: Hyves (NL)
• Social: StudiVZ (Du)
• Webceleb: Loic le Meur (Fr)
• Rookie of the Year: Glubble (UK)
• On Stage Start-up: Wakoopa (NL)

As people spend more time on a variety of social networking platforms, they are spending less time blogging, and it’s having an effect on the blogosphere. Social networks, according to Robert Scoble, are replacing a lot of the functions that blogs used to perform — and are doing them faster, better, and in a way that’s more targeted.

Scoble “Visit my FriendFeed and you’ll see why I’m blogging less (it shows you what I’ve been generating on other services). When I started this blog in 2000 there wasn’t Twitter. Wasn’t Upcoming.org. Wasn’t Google Reader. Wasn’t Flickr. Wasn’t YouTube. Wasn’t Seesmic“.

Robert did his keynote about this subject at the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam.

Picture by Markies