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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. because of the giant Webby budget cuts... by egoff · · Score: 4, Funny

    All they got was a secret decoder ring.

  2. Apache Wins Webby by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's like saying,

    "Pope chosen as #1 Catholic."

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  3. Webby Awards appear meaningless by ComputerSlicer23 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Uhhh, is it just me, or do the Webby site qualify (ironically), for the most useless site ever made. Wow, we give out awards with titles, with no explaination. None, at all. "Technical Achievement", okay, what did you think was so impressive about Apache? Why was it better then what Google's accomplished?

    We give out this awards, and explain nothing, nothing at all. Geez, that's useful. They give you links to the people who won, and the people nominated. Whoopie! Why not tell me something useful, like the criteria that you used to evaluate them (the criteria is there, but hidden away). Why not tell me what the Apache people did to qualify as: "Sites introducing or integrating technology that pushes the envelope, and invite us to believe in what once seemed impossible" .

    Great, you took 4 technical achievements, arbitrarily picked one. That's nice, where's some useful content? Personally, I think Google News is much cooler then anything Apache's done lately. Not that Apache isn't cool, but Google's done far more previously deemed impossible things lately then Apache has. At least tell me what you think Apache has done that you think is wonderful?

    Maybe they'll release all that information later after some goofy ceremony, but seems like it'd be mighty useful content to give the site some actual value.

    Kirby

    1. 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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    2. 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.

  4. Bad site design by onomatomania · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does it bother anyone else that the Webby award site itself was designed by retarded monkeys? Almost all of the text is presented with images, forcing you to deal with that God-awful 6 pixel high font. Try viewing that site without images. It's nearly impossible. About the only thing NOT hard-coded in images are the site names and links. And of course the site does not repond at all to a "text size" option in my browser (which I admit is Crazy Browser, based on IE; Moz may be different.)

    This site fails almost every rule of web design, for fuck's sake.

    1. Re:Bad site design by Imperator · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not to mention it wants to open links with JavaScript just so it can make them appear in tiny windows on my huge monitor.

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  5. Other awards by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Funny
    I gather not only the Webbys have been handed out today:
    • SCO won the predigious Suity for "Best IP lawsuit involving Unix aimed at a giant corporation"
    • Slashdot won the much-sought-after Slashy for "Best Open Source Tech News/Discussion Website With A Green/Black Colour Scheme"
    • God won the Popey for Supreme Being Catholics Admire Most
    • For the fiftieth year in a row, Bears won the Grizzly for "Stereotype Most Likely To Crap In The Woods"
    Well done Apache!
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