YouTube Founders Wins Special Webby Award

The 2007 Webby award winners were announced, and YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen received special achievement awards, being named Webby Persons of the Year. Some of the other winners:
Yahoo:
Flickr: Best Practices Webby Award Winner, Best Visual Design – Function Webby Award Winner and People’s Voice Winner, Community Webby Award Winner and People’s Voice Winner
del.icio.us: Best Practices nominee, Community nominee
Jumpcut: Broadband nominee, Services nominee
Yahoo Answers: Community nominee
Yahoo Real Estate: Real Estate People’s Voice Winner
AOL/Time Warner:
GameDaily.com: Games-related nominee
CNNMoney.com: Financial Services nominee
IAC:
CollegeHumor.com: Humor nominee
Microsoft:
Clearification (viral marketing campaign): IT Hardware/Software Webby Award Winner
Current (which has a Google-branded news show):
Television Webby Award Winner
You know, I never expected Google to win a design award, but they’ve got some pretty good stuff that you’d think would win something. At least we can congratulate Yahoo. Last year, lots of Google properties were nominated and winners, this year, none.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg