2009 Webby's Mentions Just About Every Site on the Internet (Except us)
The 2009 Webby awards have come and gone, and sadly, Maximum PC was mysteriously overlooked. We didn’t notice a category for “world’s most amazing technology website / magazine”, but that’s no excuse! For those of you who haven’t heard of them before today, the Webby’s are an international award honoring excellence on the Internet. They focus on everything from YouTube skits to innovative advertising, but one look at the list and you’ll wonder if they just snagged the first million URL’s from Google and ran with it.
The 2009 results are listed below:
- Webby Artist of the Year: Trent Reznor
- Webby Person of the Year: Jimmy Fallon
- Webby Breakout of the Year: Twitter
- Best Actress: Sarah Silverman
- Outstanding Comedic Performance: Lisa Kudrow
- Film & Video Person of the Year: Seth MacFarlane
- Agency of the Year: R/GA
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ferds7
May 11, 2009 at 2:20pm
Maximum PC's website layout and functionality is hands down better than every website on that award list. As another user stated, GE's little webcam page deserved at least one of those categories.
I personally feel that just about all of those websites listed were aweful.
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mjjordan001
May 11, 2009 at 5:07am
Don't worry about a webby, it sounds to close to a wedgie and none of us want that. who cares, your readers and everyone else who gives a hoot really knows who's tha Shiznit.
The un-PC PC Engineer
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Alperian
May 10, 2009 at 11:39am
The activist winner was in part, a preachy movie which actually took ages to load. (maybe unfair there due to present excessive demand on the servers). My current (no pun intended) favourite is GEs Smart grid site with augmented reality. Surely the AR alone would warrant it a prize? No.
Nike lets the public know that women (or girls as the company labels them) are just a huge marketing target.
GE with AR should have won, but to be honest, I don't think any global international should win. That is up to the judges though. It is like McDonalds winning the 'International Annual World's Best Burger Competition'.
All that has happened is that a bunch of leftie liberals and corporate types have degraded the Webbies. Don't cry over it. Just go back to your rigs and benchmarks where 'those awful folk' can't interfere with FACTS and be happy knowing that you are better than that!
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Crawfish
May 10, 2009 at 9:57am
If this is supposedly the best of the web it makes me wonder why the hell i'm paying for internet service. What a load of dung. Consumer electronics: Tom Tom... Seriously?
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Gailim
May 09, 2009 at 3:13pm
webby's are just popularity contests, every website that was nominated tried to send all of thier visitors to vote for them. I suppose you could argue that the ability to mobilize supporters is award worthy but honestly I think the whole thing is a waste of time.
I can think of 4 of my most visited sites that ran adds trying to get themselves votes for this useless award.
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RavenStandsAlone
May 09, 2009 at 1:50pm
Is it just my crappy browser or is that your crappy .html hanging out up above?
These are the InterWebs? Where's the bicycles, babes and beer?
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RavenStandsAlone
May 09, 2009 at 4:34pm
Feel free to pull the above crappy remark also Justin.
These are the InterWebs? Where's the bicycles, babes and beer?
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Justin.Kerr
May 09, 2009 at 2:59pm
Sorry,
Wrote and posted the story in Ubuntu using Firefox, the rendering problem was only with Internet Explorer.
Thanks for pointing it out, all fixed up :)
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RavenStandsAlone
May 09, 2009 at 4:32pm
Didn't mean to offend by the vociferous commentary. I am a recidivistic grammarian.
These are the InterWebs? Where's the bicycles, babes and beer?















