MediaMemo (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Everyone loves to complain about email. Except for the growing batch of entrepreneurs using it to launch newsletter businesses. Latest example: Netted, a Web-centric recommendation guide from the guys who bring you the Webby Awards.
rickwebb.net (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders Confession :p. This was pretty intense. My friend David Michel Davies, executive director of the The Webby Awards, has long wanted to do a conference on the “internet dark arts.” This guy should speak.
Infinite Thinking Machine (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
A FutureofEducation.com interview. Date: Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) ( international times here ) Duration: 1 hour Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/futureofed . The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please...
lewisquinn (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
JacksonPollock.org is People's Voice Winner of the Webby Awards. I have been returning to this web site every now and again. This is now a favourite website. Use it to paint interesting patterns and effects for fun, click to change colour and press spacebar to clear your painting. (You could also screen grab and use in Photoshop as a brush or pattern, however I think that might be a bit naughty though)....
Super Punch (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Polar bear found item sculpture from the Skirball Cultural Center's Noah's Ark exhibit . And a few more links: 1. Received in the mail: PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God: Frank Warren is a small business owner who started PostSecret.com as a community art project. Since November 2004 Warren has received more than 150,000 anonymous postcards. The website won two Webby Awards in 2006 and...
Fuel Your Creativity (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
What will be your five-word speech if you win a Webby Award? That’s right, it’s that time of year again! Giving Web designers a chance to deliver one of its famous five-word speeches, The Webby Awards today kicked off its 14th annual call for entries. The early entry deadline is October 30, 2009. Winners will join past [...] Sponsored by Advertise on Fuel Your Creativity . Fuel Your Creativity...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
RESTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org), the company behind the .ORG domain name, encourages .ORG community members worldwide to submit their websites for the 14th Annual Webby Awards. In 2009, the .ORG community was well represented at The Webby's with 63 nominations and 26 winners overall, an increase of 37% from 2008.
Quick Online Tips (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Now you can submit websites, advertising campaigns and videos for the 14th Annual Webby Awards, which honor the best in Websites, Interactive Advertising & Media, Online Film & Video and the Mobile Web. This the best time to get early bird pricing and enter your best online work to be judged by the 650-member IADAS [...]
Fresh Inc. (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The flood gates open for new IPO's. With five venture-backed companies set to go public this week, the most the market has seen in about two years, IPO's are beginning to seem like a viable option again for a slew of promising young companies. The Boston Globe talks with a number of venture capitalists and young companies who can't seem to contain their excitement about the return of the IPO market....
Voices (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
When I first I attended the Webby Awards in 2001, I noticed an anthropological paradox: The line to the ladies' room was nonexistent, the men's, long.
Radio (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
A trademark of the Webby Awards is the five-word acceptance speech allotment at the awards ceremony.
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
(YouTube Link) The Webby Awards have been given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since 1996 for achievement on the Internet. Winners are limited to five-word acceptance speeches. The above video is a compilation of some of those concise and occasionally funny speeches. If you had only five words to [...]
WalletPop Blog (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
The Webby Awards, or Oscars for websites--just as fun and fancy but without the stiffness (of Hollywood botox that is! Hey, now!) is asking for entries. The awards show is best known for its five-word limit on acceptance speeches, which still manage to pack an emotional punch, as shown in this highlight reel below. "If [Mtv's Video Music Awards] limited their speeches to five-words, Kanye wouldn't...
green LA girl (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
>> The Webby Awards added a Best Green award this year! Click over to see a video montage of 5-word award acceptance speeches from Jimmy Fallon, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and other internet luminaries. >> Edward Norton’s aiming to win a medal this year — by running the New York Marathon with Maasai warriors to raise [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Today Mashable is hosting our first ever Social Good Conference, a one-day educational event celebrating the finale of the Summer of Social Good charitable campaign. The event is being held at the prestigious 92nd Street Y in New York City, but you don’t have to be in New York to watch or participate! Below we’ve embedded a live stream of the event so you can view presentations from well...
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