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Tuesday
Jun152010

Webby Awards 2010

On June 14th, Andrea Smith (@abcandrea) and Dan Patterson (@danpatterson) of ABC News Radio (@abcnewsradio) attended the 14th annual Webby Awards in lower Manhattan.  Below is a summary of their red carpet coverage.

More photos and snapshots of the coverage can be found in the ABC News Radio Webby Awards photoset on Flickr.

Listen / Download Vint Cerf Interview Audio

Vint Cerf - "Father of the Internet" - discusses the progress of the web from it's early ARPAnet days to the red carpet of the Webbies.  Cerf talks about everything from current web trends such as the mobile web and ereaders to social networks in outer-space.

 

 

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Listen / Download Tim Berners-Lee Interview Audio

Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web - talks about networked information and how the WWW and HyperText just seemed "like a good idea."  Berners-Lee talks about the correlations between hyper-connected computers and today's social networking trends of hyper-connected people.

 

 

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Listen / Download Ben Folds Interview Audio

Ben Folds - musician and geek - discusses his live piano performance on Chatroulette, Twittering his new record cover, and being a good Geek.  

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    The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals.

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