Give me a break, look at these winners... Amazon for "commerce" ? EBAY for "services" ? PRAYPAL for "finance" ? (PRAYPAL is owned by EBAY). WHen they realized they had no money for an awards show this year, did they just hold their hand out and start selling the awards? and what the hell does a category "best practises" mean?

Does it bother anyone else that the Webby award site itself was designed by retarded monkeys? Almost all of the text is presented with images, forcing you to deal with that God-awful 6 pixel high font. Try viewing that site without images. It's nearly impossible. About the only thing NOT hard-coded in images are the site names and links. And of course the site does not repond at all to a "text size" option in my browser (which I admit is Crazy Browser, based on IE; Moz may be different.)

This site fails almost every rule of web design, for fuck's sake.

They can't give any kind of background or technical accomplishments of what happened? None at all?

The Academy Awards I always assumed had more information on their websites about the movies, about what was compelling about them, about who was involved and what was accomplished. During a 2 hour TV presentation, I understand why they do what they do, and to be honest, at least I understand the body of work they are judging. It's contents are the film I saw, with the possible exception of the lifetime achievement awards. Lifetime acheivement awards, they normally spend some time presenting what that person did, and what was interesting about it.

With your vote, you can't write a little blurb about the ones you voted for that you felt you had some area of expertise in? So they could give some quotes (it'd be optional, but I'm willing to bet each winner would find someone willing to say something nice about it in a couple of paragraphs).

When voting for a film, I know precisely what they voted for. If I saw the film, I know the entire body of work they considered. Google. I don't know all the stuff that google does. The news stuff is cool. The searchable images, cool. The weird advanced queries cool. The way cool stuff dealing with the froogle, cool. I know they do all kinds of cool interesting stuff I've never seen, because there's always more cool stuff I learn about google.

Apache puts out the Jakarta project, the Structs project, the Tomcat server, the Ant stuff, Apache server, they put out all kinds of stuff. Apache 2.0 is cool, but nothing impossible. Some of the other projects might be incredible compelling technological leaps, maybe they could ask someone from the Apache foundation for a blurb on their accomplishments for the year. Maybe like a little speech or something?

Kirby

True that. Another thing to mention is that the awards page is 225kb! Maybe someone who can actually design a web site should start handing out the awards...