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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[paulthomas]

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

Come on!

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[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!

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:Remember Segetation?

[gefafwysp]

I think this site made it onto Web Pages That Suck [webpagesthatsuck.com] 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!" ;)

Breakout of the Year?

[cashman73]

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?

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.

Flash *IS* cross-browser.

[ClioCJS]

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 both browsers.

You don't see me whining that gmail doesn't work in lynx. Grow up. The plugin takes what, 1 second to install?

Oh, I know I know, "But I don't want it".

If you don't want to install technology to allow you to view web pages, you should not be posting on an article about awards to many webpages. You should fully expect to only ever see a fraction of the internet out there.

You're like a video collector... who wants everything to be in one codec. That just ain't gonna happen. The more codecs you install, the more videos you can play (and no, VLC doesn't play everything...).

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

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.

Like a Democrat on voting day...

[FryingDutchman]

I choose not to register my opinion on this matter.