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Clearspring and AddThis are nominated in a few categories in the Mashable Open Web Awards!

We’ve made a few widgets to spread around and get people voting one for each category.

Please use the widgets to vote and share them around! You can vote once per day per category - just enter your email address and hit “Vote Now”. Make sure to confirm your vote by clicking on the verification email that’s sent.

Everyone at Clearspring/AddThis thank you for the support!

Update Dec-3: You’ve helped get Clearspring and AddThis into the finals! Thank you! Now it’s time to vote again each day until December 14th. Please help us sweep this thing!

I made a Clearspring widget from the NY Times’ Election Results popup. Check it out:

You can share it around by clicking Get & Share.

A bunch of us at Clearspring can’t get through a day without Pandora’s music streaming in our ears. Me included.

But as many of you know, we’re at risk of losing Pandora due to a massive retroactive royalty hike on Internet radio stations.

To raise awareness and to let people know how they can fight back, we started IHeartPandora.com, a landing page to learn about the problem learn what you can do, and grab a widget badge to show your support.

We have three versions of the badge which you can find on IHeartPandora.com. I put the 300×250 one below, which you can grab right from here.

So put it on your Facebook, Myspace, Wordpress…. wherever… and use the email link in the widget to fire off your vote of support.

Help keep the music on!

About a month ago, Robyn and I swabbed our cheeks to collect DNA samples to send to DNA11. This company performs a gel electrophoresis, extracts certain markers and makes amazing portraits out of them.

Here we are collecting our DNA last month:

And here’s the result. Keep an eye out for the pics that describe what markers are highlighted:

… and the winner for the best Notorious B.I.G. reference in a menu is…

Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington.

They love it when you order BIG Poppa, and they have pretty much the best burger I’ve ever eaten.

Ted is the Chairman of our board and an amazingly successful internet entrepreneur. Check out his history at his blog. In a recent interview with Kara Swisher at All Things Digital, he spoke about Clearspring and his other cool projects.

Now you can track her campaign death spiral with your very own Clearspring widget!

Clearspring is powering the widget campaign for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

From Reuters:

Paramount turned to widget provider Clearspring for “Skull,” and will offer a contest with the release of the second trailer. The two fans who manage to distribute their “Skull” widgets most will win trips to the world premiere of the movie and the chance to be red-carpet correspondents in footage that will be streamed onto the “Skull” widgets after the premiere.

The widget will be updated with new media regularly up until the premiere of the movie, so if you grab it for your desktop, social network page or blog, you’ll see the latest stuff as they release it.

I’m proud to say that my favorite company and favorite show / website are now together in happy cross-Atlantic union.

Though Top Gear the show is only on seasonally, the site keeps the snarky reviews going year round. You can grab the Clearspring-powered widget here at Top Gear online. Or you can just click Get & Share above - that’s what being viral is all about.

The seed location is here at TBDRecords.