Vote now in Future’s 10th annual .net Awards
Internet users across the globe are being asked to come forward and have their say about the best and worst of the internet, as voting opens for the 10th annual .net Awards.
The public vote for the .net Awards 2008 is now open at www.thenetawards.com and runs through until 13th October 2008.
The influential.net magazine has held the awards annually since 1998 and celebrates the best in web design and development, mixing public opinion with those from a leading global panel of online gurus, including experts from Yahoo, Microsoft, Adobe, the BBC and many more.
In 2007, the .net Awards attracted their largest haul of votes ever, Google led the way with two awards, including ‘innovation of the year’ for its map service, Google Earth. Russell Brand’s popular BBC Radio 2 show scooped ‘podcast of the year’ whilst Facebook beat its rivals to scoop ‘socially powered site of the year.’ MySpace collected the dubious honour of ‘infamy of the year’ with judges condemning customisation features which often led to ‘eyeball-bleeding’ design.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary – the .net Awards are the UK’s longest-running Web awards. With 16 categories ranging from Best Redesign of the year and Viral Campaign of the year, through to the Infamy award – a chance to name and shame those ruining your web experience. Visitors to www.thenetawards.com can vote on as few or as many of the award categories as they wish.
.net Awards 2008
Interactive site of the year
Web application of the year
Socially-powered site of the year
Mashup of the year
Blog of the year
Podcast of the year
Vodcast of the year
Mobile site of the year
Design agency of the year
Innovation of the year
Web personality of the year
Viral campaign of the year
Standards champion – best use of accessible design
Open source application of the year
Best redesign of the year
Infamy award
Editor of .net, Dan Oliver said:
“The .net Awards give web users the chance to vote on the sites, services and people that they believe have made a serious impact in 2008. Our Awards combine nominations from the public and the opinions of more than 30 leading industry figures, making a .net Award the ultimate seal of approval!”
For more information and the chance to vote, visit www.thenetawards.com
