1998 Webby Awards

The 1998 Webby Awards were held on March 6, 1998 at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, [cite news|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,3879/article.html|publisher=PC World|date=1998-03-31|title=The Best of the Web: The 1998 Webby Award Winners] and were the first event ever to be broadcast live via the Web in 3D. [cite news|publisher=PC World|title=1998 Webby Awards: Like the Oscars, Only Funny:San Francisco awards show honors the best Web sites in 19 categories.|author=Glenn McDonald|date=1998-03-10|url=http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,6187/printable.html] The "People's Voice" awards, chosen by online poll, received 100,000 cumulative votes that year.

"The Web" magazine, which was hosting the awards, was closed down by its parent company IDG shortly before the awards, and the ceremony continued thereafter under the management of Tiffany Shlain, who IDG had hired in 1996 to coordinate the awards. [cite news|accessdate=2008-01-08|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|title=The Woman Behind the Webbies:S.F., N.Y. woo Web award impresario Tiffany Shlain|author=Carolyn Said|date=1998-07-30|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1998/07/30/BU52646.DTL] The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences was constituted that year as the judging panel for the awards, continues to do so as of the 2007 awards.

Nominees and winners

:"(from http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/winners-1998)"

External links

* [http://www.webbyawards.com webbyawards.com] - official awards website
* [http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/ flash gallery of award winners]

Notes

"Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned."