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Webby Awards - Youtube Owners Celebrity Are In This Oscar Awards For Websites and Blogs

Written by Constructicle Boy on 8/23/2007 09:05:00 AM

Constructible Boy reporting once again.On the lighter side,I would like to present the winners of the annual Oscar awards for websites and blogs.The Webby award!Well,this is indeed an All-Star lineup of some of the greatest webmasters,websites and blogs on the Internet world..Webby award has been running for the 11th year which makes this a very prestigious award to all its winner in the different categories ranging from Art to Weird.Lets have a look at the major name winners of Webby award (drum roll and guitar please) :

First,for the Special Achievement Awards,

• Webby Lifetime Achievement: David Bowie
• Webby Lifetime Achievement: eBay
• Webby Person of the Year: Steve Chen & Chad Hurley, Co-Founders, YouTube
• Webby Film & Video Awards Best Actor: Ask A Ninja
• Webby Film & Video Awards Best Actress: Jessica Lee Rose (Lonelygirl15)

Now for the award proper :

• Art - Electrolux Design Lab
• Best Copy/Writing - Howstaffworks
• Best Home/Welcome Page - Sony
  
• Best Navigation/Structure - IKEA, Dream Kitchen
• Best Practices - Flickr
• Best Use of Animation/Motion Graphics - Jonathan Yuen (2006)
• Best Use of Video/Motion Picture - Adobe CS2.3 - The Creative
  
• Blog Business - Dealbook
• Broadband - Blip TV
• Celebrity/Fan - Verizon Dave Matthews Band
• Community - Flickr again! (beating the lights of Yahoo answer!)
  
• Corporate Communication - MGM Grand Hotel & Casino (beating Adobe group!)
• Education - Howstaffswork
• Employment - Army Strong Launch Site (beating the famous Linkedin)
• Events - Mercedes-Benz E-Class Experience Paris-Beijing
• Financial Services - The Wall Street Journal Online (as expected)
• Games - Samorost2 (a huge shocker as it beats Miniclip.com)
• Games Related - Gamesutra (another shocker as it edges Gamespot)
  
• Guides/Rating/Review - Yelp (shockingly beats CNET.com!)
• Humor - The Onion
• IT Hardware/Software - Clearification (yet again Adobe loses out)
• Movie and Film - Pan's Lybrinth
  
• Music - Last.FM
• News - BBC News (dominating!)
• Newspaper - Guardian Unlimited (edging New York Times)
• Pharmaceutical - Know Menopause
  
• Podcast - NPR Podcast
  
• Radio - BBC Radio 1
  
• Real Estate - Bankside 123 (edging Yahoo Real Estate)
• Restaurant - KFC’s Flavor Station: Choose Your Sauce
• Retail - Nike Woman
  
• Services - LinkedIn (finally!)
• SOCIAL NETWORKING (The big one) : LinkedIn (Digg,Technorati,Facebook were all whacked)
• Sports - The Reggie Bush Project (beating Manchester United official website)
• Travel - Wikitravel
• Weird - Cute Overload (indeed weird)

Well,this are just some of the awards that are presented.For more awards winner and shockers,the official website for the Webby Award is here

Lets hope that I can one day be on the list!For now,have a good day and Constructicle Boy signing off for the day.

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