14th Annual Webby Awards winners

Our pals at the Webby Awards have announced this year's winners and, as usual, the list is a great launching point to check out a sampling of the Web's most interesting, innovative, and fresh sites, from both big organizations and indie media makers! Congrats to all the winners and nominees!
2010 Webby Nominees & Winners

• [Anonymous]

  So glad The Specials won a category! First web series I watched/was enthralled by and it’s great to see it get recognition.

• [Anonymous]

  okay, so my question is that if the muppets were nominated (as per their YouTube video), why are they not on the nominee list?

• [David Pescovitz]

  I can say that when were honored a few years ago, it felt really nice. Also, I find the annual Webbys list to be a great launching point to check out a sampling of the Web’s most interesting, innovative, and fresh sites, from both big organizations and indie media makers! Oh wait. I said that already in the post.

• [antiemantiem]

  When I first came to the internet (2001) I remember bumping into some links to the Webbys – at the time I thought the whole deal seemed fairly insulated and “good old boy-ish” – since then whenever I’ve seen mention of the Webbys I just ignored it

  • [Jack]

    The thing is your criticism can be levied against most any award. I think the Webby’s have flaws—they still feel like a remnant of Web 1.0—but it’s generally something one should never be ashamed of.

    But you know what the Internet needs? Another major award so this stuff gets balanced out in the end.

• [pencilbox]

  “Yawn” might be the most trite, contrived, and blase thing to say on the internet. And you’re asking if the Webbies are relevant?

  I agree, the webbys are a great jumping off point. I’ve found several great sites over the years from there. Congratulations to all the winners.

• [Talia]

  Oh man. I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of hboimagine before. (apparently it made the blog rounds back in September). That site just blew me away.

  I need to spend some time exploring it, when its not 3 am. heh.

  Epic.

• [Flying_Monkey]

  I’m not sure they should be nominating, let alone giving out awards, to sites that restrict access based on geography. For example, BBC iPlayer can’t be used outside the UK, and Pandora can’t be used properly outside the USA… hardly good examples of the ‘Worldwide’ Web…

• [mwschmeer]

  Yawn. Are the Webbies even relevant now?