It’s that time of the year again. Renowned websites, publications and famous magazines are issuing tops after tops, awards after awards for the entertainment and joy of curious masses. Everyone around the world is interested in finding out 2009’s top performers in the web design and development sector.
Last week, the 15-year-old .net Magazine announced the winners of its highly respected and recognized annual awards given to celebrate the best in web design and development. Voting for these awards was opened to the public until October 12. After that date, the first three in each of the 17 categories went to a panel of 50+ industry judges who selected this year’s winners.
The final and official results will be unveiled tomorrow, December 8, in the next issue of .net Magazine. Meanwhile, a preview of the winners was presented on the awards’ website.
So, the winners are as follows:
Web Application of the year: Dropbox wins over Spotify and Google Docs.
Best Community Site: Twitter wins over Vimeo and Facebook.
Best API Use: tweetdeck.com/beta wins over bit.ly and Twitpic.
Best Interactive Site of the Year: Nvidia Speak Visual campaign wins over BBC Blast and Coca Cola Happy Me campaign.
Blog of the Year: Smashing Magazine wins over CSS-Tricks and Tuts+ Network.<... (read more)