Webby Awards Newsletter

14th Annual Webby Awards Now Accepting Entries

Judging from the quality of the entries we've received so far, it's shaping up to be a fantastic year for the 14th Annual Webby Awards. Make sure you enter now for your chance to join the prestigious group of Webby Award Winners.

Read more about the Media category here.

Autotune the News vs. Internet Memes Video

We here at the Webby Awards are proud to present the premiere of a brand new Autotune the News video. In this installment, the Gregory Brothers and Barely Political stray from their usual subject matter of pressing political issues and decide to aim their effects-filter at something with a little more relevance to the Webby Community: Internet Memes.

So enjoy as some of your favorite viral videos get the Autotune treatment.

Watch it here.

DARPA Network Challenges Marks 40th Anniversary of the Internet

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Agency, has created an interactive contest to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Internet. The contest requires participants to locate 10 balloons hidden around the continental United States. Google's Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist and IADAS Member Vinton Cerf, played an integral role at DARPA which eventually lead to the development of the Internet as we know it.

Steve Chen & Chad Hurley, Co-Founders of YouTube, received the Webby Awards Person of the Year for the 11th Annual Webby Awards.

Colbert Nation to Sponsor Men's Speed Skating Team

Stephen Colbert, host of the Colbert Report and 2008 Webby Person of the Year, stepped-up to sponsor the US Men's Speed Skating team after Dutch bank DSB failed to make any payments to the team. Colbert told the Associated Press "On their enormous billboard thighs, it will say, 'Colbert Nation'. Be looking for that logo as it comes around the final turn. It will be easy to see because it will be in first place."

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