The official list of winners of the 2008 Weblog Awards was posted on 15 January 2009 and we are delighted to announce that Our World 2.0 won the best blog design category. Over a seven day period, 933,022 votes were cast in 48 categories.

The best blog design finalists included some cool desgns like Pink Yellow Media, Veerle’s and Inhabitat.

In fact it was a very close competition between Our World 2.0 and Inhabitat up to the final day of voting. The best part is that both blogs have a strong environmental thematic.

Already we are seeing people in the blogsophere sharing their comments on the awards. I like this comment from Jungle Jil that captures what we were tryiing to do with the Our World 2.0 design.

“This year’s inaugural winner, OurWorld 2.0, is a fantastic example of gorgeous simplicity matched with fabulous style and superb functionality.”

So we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who voted for Our World 2.0. We also want to express our appreciation to the other finalists and the organizers on a wonderful competition. Now that we know each other, we hope that this can be the start of a long friendship.