2006 Webby Award Winners Announced

Wired is reporting that the winners for the 2006 Webby Awards have been announced and the usual suspects have dominated the scene. From the article: "With a record 65 award categories, this year's Webby honorees ranged from well-known sites like the (Washington Post, a popular vote winner for best newspaper site, to more obscure newcomers, like Remember Segregation, named best home page. As in years past, the honoree list included several winners of multiple awards, along with perennial favorites that have won Webbys previously."

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Summary Incomplete

[paulthomas]

You guys forgot to mention that Cute Overload won the People's Voice Webby.

Come on!

Re:Summary Incomplete

[Kelson]

You guys forgot to mention that Cute Overload won the People's Voice Webby.

Yeah, I couldn't figure out how they managed to miss that. After all, Slashdot introduced the site to a whole new audience!

Google Earth named best visual design

[stu42j]

Last I checked, Google Earth was not a website.

Re:Google Earth named best visual design

[MrTeter]

Who cares? All these awards shows are just about politics, anyway. The real question is what did Google Earth wear to the ceremony?

Re:Google Earth named best visual design

[Geoff]

I'm not sure, but I hear there was a huge cleavage along the Colorado River in Arizona.

Geoff

Webbies? How about the Flashies?

[Makenai]

Seriously, can they rename these things the flashies? Withouth the plugin, I can't see 90% of the pages up there. Shouldn't RememberSegregation.com be in HTML and compatible across all browsers for equality? They don't even have a separate but equal HTML version. No flash, no cigar.

PERSONAL WEB SITE

[mapkinase]

I would personally kill the PERSONAL WEB SITE winner for messing with the size of my Firefox window. I wonder how come such arrogant annoyance of a site can win in any category?

Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE

[Anonymous Coward]

By hijacking your browser, I think the site was making a sly commentary on the arrogance of government that uses coercion to force integration down student's throats, choosing in many cases to value pc social engineering over quality education and the human nature to self-segregate into clans even under perfect conditions.

Re:Remember Segetation?

[gefafwysp]

I think this site made it onto Web Pages That Suck a while ago, so I'm glad that I can now recycle my comment of "Non-Flash user? Get to the back of the bus!" ;)

Are the webbies still around?

[spun]

I knew some of the people behind this thing, and they were for the most part shallow attention seekers with the technical expertise of your average turtle. The main reason for the webbies is to throw a giant party for their friends on someone else's dime. Back in the .com days everyone thought they were hot shit. I kinda thought they had slunk back into the marketing sewer they crawled out of. Make no mistake, geeks, the webbies were created by the popular kids who picked on us in high school, not by or for fellow geeks.

I mean, I could see some industry group giving out awards, like the Academy awards, or even a bunch of trade journalists, like the Golden Globes, but the webbies are just some guys who said, "How can we make a buck off this Internet thingy? I know! We can get paid to throw a huge party and hand out some made-up awards!"

Sorry for the rant, but these guys epitomize everything that was wrong with the .com boom.

Breakout of the Year?

[cashman73]

Kind of a sad day in the history of the internet when MySpace wins a Webby Award. Shouldn't, "Breakout of the Year," in fact be, "Broken HTML of the Year?"

What's the equivalent of the Razzies for websites?

Did anyone notice this?

[mapkinase]

1. BLOG - POLITICAL

              WEBBY AWARD WINNER
        AGENCY/CREDITED ORGANIZATION
                    The Huffington Post HuffingtonPost.com
                    http://www./ huffingtonpost.com

2. http:/// ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/

3. http://www.webbyawards.com/about/index.php:

The Academy is an intellectually diverse organization that includes members such as musicians Beck and David Bowie, Internet inventor Vint Cerf, political columnist Arianna Huffington...

It looks like 500 members of the Academy is a huge pool to pick the ~50 (?) winners from...

Chase was nominated

[obender]

I think it's a pity Chase did not win. About a month ago I got an email from them inviting me to unlock my account via the internet. Their website was very easy to use and I had no problems at all filling in all the details.

I also forwarded the email to my associates, Panikovsky and Balaganov, I thought they would enjoy the services of such a nice company.

Re:Flash *IS* cross-browser.

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Flash has penetrated over 90% of the userbase of both browsers.

But everybody still hates it.

Flash is like Chicken Pox. You know you have to get it eventually, and you're sort of grateful that you did. But the expierience is often very ichy and nauseating.

Re:I agree to an extent.

[pilkul]

It's progress to have pages that I can't bookmark or link for others, text I can't resize or cut-and-paste, and that my blind friend can't play in a screen reader? Flash is a step backward because it's not an open standard and it takes away control from the reader, when the web is all about empowering the reader.

$245 to enter too

[K-Man]

They apparently make their money via the old "Who's who" scam. They spam webmasters with "You have been nominated" messages to get them to pony up the entry fee.

There's a good description here.