The search for the Top 50 was completely open — anyone could nominate an app — and the nominees were put to a public vote. The poll was open for 41 days and we received about 200 nominations and more than 5,000 votes were cast.

The breadth of the entries was remarkable. From niche applications like online diagram sketchers to mass market location-based directories and games, the spectrum of the way we live with web and mobile today was captured by the polls.

Of the Top 50, 10 apps were selected by a panel of judges as the most innovative of the lot. These 10 will be revealed at the tech confabAccelerate 2010 in Singapore on 22 Sept. Jeffrey Paine was one of the judges. He runs the Founders Institute programme in Singapore.

“It is the initial traction that makes or breaks a company,” he said. “A contest like this is an important part of the tech startup eco system.”

See for yourself what the crowd has chosen as Asia’s Top 50 Apps. Here they are http://www.e27.sg/top-50-apps/

Note: Wong Joon Ian is e27’s editor in chief. e27 covers web and mobile startups in Asia at e27.sg. We also organise the annual echelon conference in Singapore, which hosted 650 tech industry luminaries this year.

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