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2006 Webby Award Winners Announced

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tue May 09, 2006 12:32 PM
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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 (Score:5, Funny)

    by paulthomas (685756) * on Tuesday May 09 2006, @12:37PM (#15294679) Journal
    You guys forgot to mention that Cute Overload [cuteoverload.com] won the People's Voice Webby.

    Come on!

    • Re:Summary Incomplete (Score:4, Funny)

      by Kelson (129150) * on Tuesday May 09 2006, @12:40PM (#15294710) Homepage Journal
      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!
      [ Parent ]
      • Yeah, I couldn't figure out how they managed to miss that. After all, Slashdot introduced the site to a whole new audience!

        I think you're thinking of Goatse.
    • I have to complain again about these awards: how come the site titled Cute Overlord won the Webby without even having a Ponies category???

  • Google Earth named best visual design (Score:4, Informative)

    by stu42j (304634) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @12:38PM (#15294696) Homepage
    Last I checked, Google Earth was not a website.

  • Webbies? How about the Flashies? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Makenai (223604) * on Tuesday May 09 2006, @12:41PM (#15294725) Homepage
    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.
      • 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.
        [ Parent ]

          • Re:I agree to an extent. (Score:5, Interesting)

            by pilkul (667659) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @03:03PM (#15296110)
            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.
            [ Parent ]
              • Okay, that it's supported by screenreaders is new to me. Still, looking it up I see extra markup is required to support it, whereas when you use standard HTML you pretty much get it automatically.

                And: Your whole argument is a strawman. Flash is usually

                • I agree with you wholeheartedly regarding the abuses of Flash; rarely is it used for its real purposes. Adobcromedia in fact is actually encouraging this abuse of Flash by striving to replace HTML with Flex (roughly, data driven dynamically generated Flas

      • don't see me whining that gmail doesn't work in lynx

        I often access Gmail via elinks under linux, and have used it with Lynx - it sucks mightily, and most of the cool features, like chat, don't work - but it'll open and run :)

      • Try finding a native AMD64 Flash plugin.

      • Sigh. Your post is so stupid it almost physically hurts me to think about it.

        The issue is you refuse to install one of the main web technologies to your browser. The site IS cross-browser compatible; Flash has penetrated over 90% of the userbase of bo
      • Flash has penetrated over 90% of the userbase

        And Windows has penetrated over 90% of the x86 userbase. But I'd much rather use Linux, thanks.

        of both browsers.

        There are more than two, as others have said.

        You don't see me whining that gmail doesn't work in l

        • I'm 32. (Score:2, Insightful)

          by ClintJCL (264898)
          And I guarantee my computers do more than yours. Since you can't even visit a page using 5+-year-old technology. You are an internet luddite.

          Flash is just glitz. Yes, anyone who puts information that you are searching for into a flash needs to be shot

  • PERSONAL WEB SITE (Score:5, Insightful)

    by mapkinase (958129) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @12:47PM (#15294779) Homepage Journal
    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?
    • I wonder how come such arrogant annoyance of a site can win in any category?
      It's easy -- you have hit upon the origin and sole function of the Webby Awards.

    • Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE (Score:4, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2006, @01:04PM (#15294959)
      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.
      [ Parent ]

    • Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE (Score:2, Informative)

      by Boxy Brown (965046)
      You should disable the "Allow sripts to: Move or resize existing windows" option. I hate it too.

      For Firefox 1.5
      ->Tools
      ->Options
      ->Content
      ->Advanced (next to the "Enable JavaScript" checkbox)
      ->Uncheck "Move or resize existing windows"

      In older
    • If you're using Firefox like you said, there is a fix for sites like that.

      In the menu, click on "Edit" and go to "Preferences". When the prefereces dialog opens select the "Content" tab. Text to the checkbox and label "Enable JavaScript" click on the "Ad

  • Always remember segregation (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Those that do not remember to separate content from presentation are doomed to repeat separating content from presentation.

  • Are the webbies still around? (Score:5, Informative)

    by spun (1352) <loverevolutionary@NOSpam.yahoo.com> on Tuesday May 09 2006, @12:51PM (#15294813) Journal
    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? (Score:5, Funny)

    by cashman73 (855518) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @12:53PM (#15294839) Journal
    Kind of a sad day in the history of the internet when MySpace [myspace.com] 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 [razzies.com] for websites?

  • Anyone remember when the winner of this award was ACTUALLY weird? jodi.org perhaps? Most of these sites seem to be net.humor sites.

  • Did anyone notice this? (Score:5, Informative)

    by mapkinase (958129) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @01:35PM (#15295254) Homepage Journal
    1. BLOG - POLITICAL

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

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

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

    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...

  • Did I win? (Score:3)

    by robertjw (728654) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @01:50PM (#15295446) Homepage
    Did I win? How much to I get?

  • Chase was nominated (Score:5, Funny)

    by obender (546976) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @01:55PM (#15295490)
    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.

  • I didn't know they had a Best Pedophile Hangout Site award.

    Was that a low blow?

    Why, yes. Yes it was.

  • Exhaustive Search (Score:2, Informative)

    by raftpeople (844215)
    Quote from the organization:
    "After an exhaustive search of about 38 web sites we have chosen the top 37 in a variety of categories. Although we realize there are about 14 billion web sites we did not visit, we feel pretty good about our choices."

  • The Onion as a news site? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by hawaiian717 (559933) on Tuesday May 09 2006, @02:26PM (#15295754) Homepage
    They nominated The Onion in the news site category? And it won the Humor category? Does their left mouse button not know what their right mouse button is doing?
  • I choose not to register my opinion on this matter.

  • Why am I not surprised that the WonderBra [experience...ryou.co.uk] page is one of the nominees?
  • I would sooner believe David Blaine is a magician than the Webby Awards are the Oscars of the Internet.

    By the number of flash winners it's clear that the webby's are still out of touch with reality.
    • I agree. I'm not sure how anyone can give awards like this these days. I see sites every day that are as good or better in design or content the sites listed in these awards. Most of the 'award winners' are flash sites that take two minutes to load and
    • I've installed the Stumble Upon extension for Firefox, and it has worked out to be a great way to find new and different and GOOD things on the web. Lots of eyes with lots of opinions slowly browsing the Web, giving everything thumbs up or thumbs down. I
    • Its an award for the most Anglophone, USA-centric, flash ridden, over hyped websites that the judges can find in thier bookmarks from last years award nominations.
      • It's not that USA-centric. The BBC and the Guardian won best News, and best Newspaper respectively.
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