14 DAY TRIAL // It's that time of the year again. Renowned websites, publications and famous magazines are issuing tops after tops, awards after awards for the entertainment and joy of curious masses. Everyone around the world is interested in finding out 2009's top performers in the web design and development sector.
Last week, the 15-year-old .net Magazine announced the winners of its highly respected and recognized annual awards given to celebrate the best in web design and development. Voting for these awards was opened to the public until October 12. After that date, the first three in each of the 17 categories went to a panel of 50+ industry judges who selected this year's winners.
The final and official results will be unveiled tomorrow, December 8, in the next issue of .net Magazine. Meanwhile, a preview of the winners was presented on the awards' website.
So, the winners are as follows:
Web Application of the year: Dropbox wins over Spotify and Google Docs.
Best Community Site: Twitter wins over Vimeo and Facebook.
Best API Use: tweetdeck.com/beta wins over bit.ly and Twitpic.
Best Interactive Site of the Year: Nvidia Speak Visual campaign wins over BBC Blast and Coca Cola Happy Me campaign.
Blog of the Year: Smashing Magazine wins over CSS-Tricks and Tuts+ Network.
Redesign of the year: Whitehouse.gov (after adopting the Drupal CMS) over Facebook and Manchester City FC official website.
Open Source Application of the Year (Category sponsored by another industry veteran in publishing web-related content: Packt Publishing): jQuery wins over Firefox 3.5 and WordPress.
Innovation of the Year: Google Chrome wins over Wolfram Alpha and Opera Unite.
Podcast of the Year: Boagworld wins over CreativeXpert and FreelanceRadio.
Vodcast of the Year: revision3.com/diggnation wins over Nettuts and CSS-Tricks video screencasts
Web Personality of the Year: Stephen Fry wins over Susan Boyle and Ashton Kutcher.
Design Agency of the Year: Clearleft wins over Otterball and Erskine. Viral Campaign of the Year: Best Job in the World (Nitro) wins over Star Trek and Skittles.
Standards Champion (individual or organization promoting accessible design): Jeffrey Zeldman wins over Bruce Lawson and Jeremy Keith.
Mobile Site of the Year: Flickr wins over Twitter and Google.
Mobile App of the Year: Shazam wins over Evernote and Twitterrific.
Infamy Award (given to the worst blunder of the year, or a campaign supporting the correction of a flawed app, or just something plain stupid): .net's own anti-IE6 campaign wins over Facebook's badly received design and the online campaign dedicated to convincing Microsoft in fixing Outlook's HTML rendering engine.
Some of them you would agree on, some not, but our favorites can't win all the time. We'll sure keep you in touch with some more awards given by other world famous organizations for 2009 as soon as they come out. Meanwhile, more details about the awards, ceremony and acceptance speeches are available on the official website.