The Webby Awards Nominees and Honors for 2010
Twitter, Foursquare, Zach Galifianakis, David After Dentist, Texts from Last Night, Hulu, Mashable, and ColbertNation are among the Internet and pop culture superstars nominated today for The 14th Annual Webby Awards, the Internet’s top honor.
14th Annual Webby Awards highlights include:
Multiple nominees: Nominees earning multiple nods range from first-time nominees like Crackle (5), Wonderwall.com (2), and Auto-Tune the News (2) to Internet powerhouses like NYTimes.com (15), BBC (9), CollegeHumor (6), The Onion (6), Next New Networks (6), Funny or Die (5), NPR (5), Cheezburger Network (4), and Mashable (3).
Best Viral Video
Auto-Tune the News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12eKIQN1AU
David After Dentist
http://www.youtube.com/booba1234
Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0d646e2edb/lindsay-lohan-s-eharmony-profile
Love Project Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh7D2g5v-Sg
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
Best Individual Performance
Lisa Kudrow in Web Therapy II
http://www.lstudio.com
Ed O’Neil in Star-Ving
http://crackle.com/c/Star-ving
Amir Blumenfeld in Jake and Amir
http://www.collegehumor.com/jakeandamir
Illeana Douglas in Easy to Assemble
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Easy_to_Assemble/Season_2/Eas.…
Isabella Rossellini in Green Porno
http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno
Comedy: Individual Short or Episode
Protect Insurance Companies PSA
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/041b5acaf5/protect-insurance-companies-psa
WebSite Story
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1913584
The Onion (Comedy: Individual Short or Episode, for The Onion News Network)
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1913584
Wainy Days #27, “Jill”
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Wainy_Days/Season_4/27Jill_1431.aspx
The Ed Hardy Boyz
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cd14a180a2/ed-hardy-boyz
Comedy: Long Form or Series
Jake and Amir
http://www.collegehumor.com/jakeandamir
Green Porno – Seasons 2 and 3
http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno
The Onion (Comedy: Long Form or Series, for The Onion News Network’s Today Now)
http://www.theonion.com/content/onn/playlist/Today+Now
Best Video Remixes/Mashups
Auto-Tune the News
http://www.barelypolitical.com/remix/episode/BP_20090903/auto-tune-the-news-8-with-t-pain
Bale Out: RevoLucian’s Christian Bale Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48
Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed
http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2009/buffy-vs-edward-twilight-remixed
Carl Sagan – A Glorious Dawn (ft. Stephen Hawking) – Cosmos Remixed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
YouTube Symphony Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/symphony
Best Social Networking
Twitter
http://twitter.com
BakeSpace.com
http://www.bakespace.com
Cute as Hell
http://www.cuteashell.com
Digg.com
http://digg.com
Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com
Best Mobile Social Networking
foursquare
http://foursquare.com
meetMoi
http://www.meetmoi.com
iCrossing’s Say what? iPhone application
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=330893554
NISSAN Ski Challenge PROVE IT
http://demo.bisystem.com/Skichallenge
Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/yelpmobile
Best Weird
Awkward Family Photos
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
http://www.selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com
Cute Overload
http://www.cuteoverload.com
FAIL Blog
http://www.failblog.org
I Can Has Cheezburger?
http://www.icanhascheezburger.com
Best Personal Blog/Website
Broken Secrets – Some of The Best Kept Secrets on Earth
http://brokensecrets.com/
But You’re Like Really Pretty: A Webcomic
http://www.ButYoureLikeReallyPretty.com
Clouds 365 Project
http://www.clouds365.com
Indexed
http://www.thisisindexed.com
Jason Nelson’s Digital Oddities
http://www.secrettechnology.com/
Best Humor
Awkward Family Photos
http://brokensecrets.com/
Jason Nelson’s Digital Oddities
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com
CollegeHumor.com
http://www.collegehumor.com/
FAIL Blog
http://www.failblog.org
GraphJam
http://www.graphjam.com
The Onion (Humor)
http://www.theonion.com
Best Mobile Entertainment
Texts From Last Nights
http://www.textsfromlastnight.com
MLB.com
http://wap.mlb.com
Television Without Pity Mobile
http://m.twop.com
KCRW Radio iPhone App
http://www.kcrw.com/about/kcrw-iphone-applications
The GQ iPhone App
http://www.gq.com/downloadiphoneapp
Best Broadband
Hulu
http://www.hulu.com
Barbara’s Garden
http://www.barbarasgarden.org
CBBC iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/
Fancast
http://www.fancast.com
Walmart Soundcheck
http://soundcheck.walmart.com
Best Television
Colbert Nation
http://www.colbertnation.com
Current.com
http://current.com
Discovery.com
http://www.discovery.com
Project Runway Designer Portfolio
http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway/project-runway-season-6-portfolios
Sundance Channel
http://www.sundancechannel.com
Best Web Service and Application
Dropbox
http://www.dropbox.com
Notable
http://www.notableapp.com
Fonolo
http://www.fonolo.com
Tumblr
http://tumblr.com
99designs.com
http://99designs.com
For information on nominees in Webby Awards categories honoring interactive advertising and mobile content, visit www.webbyawards.com/press/press-releases.php.
About The Webby Awards
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites. Established in 1996, the 13th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Microsoft Expression; Aol; YouTube; Pepsi; Aquent; Yahoo!; Tribal DDB Worldwide; East Media; IDG; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail; Museum of the Moving Image; Behance; Business Insider and Time Out New York.