Making it onto this list isn’t easy. After receiving more than 5,000 nominations, the editors selected 300 finalists. Then they took it to the people for the popular vote, selecting the 100 top products in 10 different categories. After nearly two million votes were cast, our friends from Yahoo! Front Page/Search, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Briefcase were all recognized by the community for offering a favorite app. And rest assured, they heart you back.

Check out the whole list of winners here .

Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor

A Proggy recognizes “animal-friendly achievement in 21st century culture and commerce…contributing to a more humane life for our entire society.” Whether they realize it or not, the thousands of Yahoos fed by Bon Appetit Management Company in our headquarters cafeteria (known as “URLs”) and beyond are provided with made-from-scratch food choices that minimize our impact on the environment. We are availed with dozens of vegetarian and vegan options, organics galore, ingredients from local farms, antibiotic-free meats, sustainable seafood, and biodegradable to-go containers. The kitchen staff even saves the vegetable oil from our fryers to create biodiesel fuel.

While an award for a corporate cafeteria might not seem worthy of great fanfare, it illustrates a big theme we Yahoos care about — finding innovative ways to help the planet. Many of the earth-friendly details are a result of input from Yahoo!’s Green Team, a volunteer army of employees who keep their eyes open for small changes that can make a big difference.

Here’s a quick video tour of URLs with Chef Bob Hart. He didn’t cook for the Grateful Dead, but he serves a mean gardein.

Kate Gerwe
Yahoo! Green Team
Senior Director, Marketing, Corporate Partnerships