The 13th annual 2009

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s were held in New York City on June 8, 2009. They were hosted by SNL head writer Seth Meyers, and the lifetime achievement award was given to Jimmy Fallon. The awards were judged by the 650-person

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, and winners were selected from among nearly 10,000 entries from 60 countries and all 50 United States. Voting by the public was available prior to April 30, and over 500,000 votes were cast. The awards ceremony was made available for viewers via the official Webby YouTube channel.Staff. "About.com Earns Webby 'People's Voice' Awards." ''

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''. 12 May 2009.

Nominees and winners

:''(from http://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2009)''

Notes

''Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the

web design Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code a ...

firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of

corporate website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Wikipe ...

s, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available

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version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.''

References

External links

Official website
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