The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring
excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy,
the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts
and Sciences, a 650-member body of leading Web experts, business
figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.
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, Real Networks CEO
Rob Glaser, "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening, R/GA Founder and
Chairman Robert Greenberg, Virgin Atlantic Chairman and Founder
Richard Branson, and The Weinstein Company Co-Founder Harvey
Weinstein. Members also include writers and editors from publications
such as The New York Times, Wired, Details, Fast Company, Elle, The Los
Angeles Times, Vibe, and WallPaper. The 13th Annual Webby Awards
received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states
and generated over 750 million media impressions worldwide.
The Webby Awards presents two honors in every category -- The
Webby Award and The People's Voice Award -- in each of its four
entry types: Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video and
Mobile Web. Members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and
Sciences select the nominees for both awards in each category, as well as
the winners of the Webby Awards. However, you, the online community,
determine the winners of The People's Voice by voting for the nominated
work that you believe to be the best in each category. Each year, the
People's Voice Awards garners hundreds of thousands of votes from the
Web community all over the world.
The list of winners for 2009 (awarded on Monday, June 08, 2009):
CRAIGSLIST expands outside San Francisco (2000):
Facts:
Company name: Craigslist, Inc.
Type: Private
Founded: 1995 (incorporated 1999)
Founder: Craig Newmark
Headquarters: San Francisco Bay Area, USA
Area served: 570 cities in 50 countries
Key people: Jim Buckmaster (CEO)
Website: www.craigslist.org
Type of site: classifieds, forums
Determination: In 2000, the free classifieds site broadened its reach
outside of San Francisco into nine additional U.S. cities, sending chills
down the spines of newspaper publishers everywhere. Today Craigslist
serves free listings in more than 500 cities in 50 countries, serving as a
model for no-frills business and community success and the catalyst for
countless jobs, apartments, and just about anything else you can think of.
GOOGLE AdWords launches (2000):
Facts:
Company name: Google Inc.
Type: Public
Founded: September 4, 1998
Founders: Sergey M. Brin, Lawrence E. Page
Headquarters: Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Eric E. Schmidt (Chairman) & (CEO)
Industry: Internet, Computer software
Employees: 19,665 – September 30, 2009[4]
Website: www.google.com
Determination: With the launch of AdWords in October 2000, Google
turned advertising on its head. The self-service ad program opened up the
marketplace to any business, no matter how big or small, and allowed
advertisers to target their customers with laser-sharp precision.
WIKIPEDIA launches (2001):
Determination: Containing 20,000 articles in 18 languages by the end of
its first year online, Wikipedia today boasts more than 14 million articles in
271 different languages. The free open-source encyclopedia epitomizes the
Internet's power to bring strangers from around the world together to
collaborate on projects both big and small.
NAPSTER - Shut Down (2001):
Facts: Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn
Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University in Boston. The
service operated between June 1999 and July 2001.
Its technology allowed people to easily share their MP3 files with
other participants, bypassing the established market for such songs and
thus leading to the music industry's accusations of massive copyright
violations. Although the original service was shut down by court order
(because of it's facilitation of transfer of copyrighted material), it paved
the way for decentralized peer-to-peer file-distribution programs, which
have been much harder to control. The service was named Napster after
Fanning's hairstyle-based nickname
Determination: Although Napster was shut down in 2001, it opened the
file-sharing floodgates. Its demise sparked a wave of innovations that
forever changed how we obtain and experience music and video - from
Hulu to iTunes to Radiohead famously dropping its label and selfdistributing
their "In Rainbows" CD online for free.
GOOGLE IPO (2004):
Google's IPO, one of the largest in history, put the six year old
search engine on the path to becoming the most dominant and influential
company of the decade. From gmail and YouTube to Google Earth, Google
Maps, and Google Android, the Internet giant and constant innovator is the
engine that powers countless aspects of our everyday lives.
YOU TUBE - Online video revolution (2006)
Facts:
Type: Subsidiary, Limited Liability Company
Founded: February, 2005
Founders: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
Headquarters: San Bruno, California, United States
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Chad Hurley (CEO), Steve Chen (CTO), Jawed Karim (Advisor)
Owner: Google Inc.
Slogan: Broadcast Yourself
Website: www.youtube.com
Alexa rank: 4
Type of site: MPEG-4 Video hosting service
Advertising: Google AdSense
Available in: 14 languages
Launched: February 2005
Determination: In 2006, a perfect storm of faster bandwidth, cheaper
camcorders, and the groundbreaking use of Adobe's Flash 9 video player
by YouTube combined to launch the online video revolution. The trifecta
led to a boom in homemade and professional content - the Diet Coke and
Mentos guys, lonelygirl15, SNL's Lazy Sunday, and Senator George Allen's
"macacagate" - that has reshaped everything from pop culture to politics.
FACEBOOK -Opens to non-college students and Twitter takes off
(2006):
Facts:
Type: Private
Founded: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (February 4, 2004)
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California
Dublin, Ireland
Key people: Mark Zuckerberg,
Founder and CEO: Dustin Moskovitz,
Co-founder: Sheryl Sandberg
Revenue ▲ 300 million USD (2008 est.)
Employees 900+
Website: Facebook.com
Alexa rank: 2
Type of site: Social network service
Advertising: Banner ads, referral marketing
Registration: Required
Determination: In September 2006, a social networking site for college
students changed its user qualifications to include anyone 13 and older
with a valid e-mail address. Facebook struck an immediate chord -- and
almost overnight, social media went main stream. Less than a month later,
the creators of Twitter acquired the company and its assets from its
investors, paving the way for the service to take off in 2007. Both
companies took social media mainstream, radically changing the way we
connect, collaborate, and communicate with everyone from friends to
colleagues to customers.
The iPhone debuts (2007):
Facts:
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Type: Candybar smartphone
Release date: Original: June 29, 2007
3G: July 11, 2008
3GS: June 19, 2009
Units sold: 21.17 million (as of Q2 2009)
Storage capacity: Flash memory
Original: 4, 8, & 16 GB
3G: 8 & 16 GB
3GS: 16 & 32 GB
Memory: Original & 3G: 128 MB eDRAM[12]
3GS: 256 MB eDRAM
Determination: The iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. By the end of
the weekend, half a million had been sold, and smartphones had gone
from a luxury item to a necessity. The iPhone inspired the development of
operating systems like Google Android, as well as an app for just about
every aspect of modern life. Over the next decade, it's estimated that a
billion new users will come to the Internet for first time through mobile device
U.S. Presidential Campaign (2008):
Determination: The Internet altered presidential politicking in 2008 much
as television had forty years earlier during the Kennedy/Nixon race. From
videos like "Obama Girl" and the Reverend Wright clip shaping the debate,
to social media mobilizing voters, to record-breaking online fundraising
from small donors, every facet of the way campaigns are run was
permanently transformed.
Iranian election protests (2009):
Determination: When Iran's 2009 presidential election produced fishy
results, the opposition took to the tweets and the "Twitter Revolution" was
born. In fact, it was so vital to organizing demonstrations that the U.S.
State Department asked the company to delay planned maintenance.. The
protests also highlighted Twitter's key asset as a protest tool: Since most
users don't access it through a central website, it's nearly impossible to
censor.
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