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Apache Wins Webby

Posted by michael on from the deserving dept.

jorr writes "'Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards is the leading international honor for the worlds best web sites. The Academy is proud to present The 7th Annual Webby Awards Winners.' Winners listed on this page. Apache won Technical Achievement award."

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  1. So did Penny-Arcade.com by metacosm · · Score: 2, Informative

    so did http://penny-arcade.com -- maybe I should submit a story under games.

    Wait; Stuff that matters, nevermind, I am going back to sleep.

  2. Re:Webby Awards appear meaningless by cpeterso · · Score: 4, Informative


    And how did Laszlo Systems get nomicated? Their Laszlo Presentation Server is not even a shipping product! Unreleased vaporware does not seem worthy of a technical achievement nomination. Laszlo execs must have some buddies in the Webby Awards office.

    And Apache is cool, but is it really worthy of a technical achievement for the year 2002? I know Apache 2.0 was "officially" released in 2002, but the product is not THAT amazing. (I voted for Google)

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    cpeterso
  3. Re:Webby Awards appear meaningless by darkpurpleblob · · Score: 4, Informative
    We give out this awards, and explain nothing, nothing at all. Geez, that's useful.
    The Judging page explains that the votes of around 480 members are used to decide the Webbys. You couldn't possibly give an explanation for the winning site that was representative of each member who voted for it. You'll note that explanations for the winners don't get given at the Academy Awards for much the same reason.

    A small judging panel would be more suited to giving some sort of explanation as to why the winners won.