Webby Awards 2009: A Night of Dot Com Moguls, Twitteratti, & More

by Blaine Metzgar | June 9, 2009 at 02:42 pm

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Seth Meyers Opening Monologue at the 13th Annual Webby Awards

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Seth Meyers Opening Monologue at the 13th Annual Webby Awards

The 13th Annual Webby Awards took place last night, June 8, 2009, in Manhattan heralding all of those dot com moguls, twitterati, and random techies we hear so much about. Hosted by Seth Meyers of Saturday Night Live, The Webbys dolled out a slew of awards to the best and the brightest in the categories of websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile.

Winners in each of the categories followed the tradition of delivering five-word acceptance speeches. Some highlights of the speeches include Arianna Huffington of the huffingtonpost.com saying, "I didn't kill newspapers...okay" and Sarah Silverman with, "Holocaust, did it happen? Yes." For his acceptance speech, Jimmy Fallon, who won for person of the year, quipped, "Thank God Conan got promoted."

Twitter was, not surprisingly, a target of comedy as well as dinner table conversation. Seth Meyers, the “Saturday Night Live” head writer and cast member who M.C.’d the event, warmed up the audience with jokes about the short messaging service, including a gem about Ashton Kutcher, the actor who famously fought with CNN to sign up a million Twitter followers.

“Ashton Kutcher is not here,” Mr. Meyers said. “I just wish there was a way to know what he was doing.”

Twitter earned a special achievement award, as well, with Mr. Stone accepting the Webby for breakout of the year. His five-word speech: “Creativity is a renewable resource.”

The speeches are kept short for good reason: with such an array of categories Oscar-worthy speeches from the winners would drag the event on for days.

But the awards weren't all nerds, Victoria's Secret models Alessandra Ambrosio and Doutzen Kroes won for best fashion site saying, "Victoria's Secret: sexy lingerie. Yeah."

Shockingly or maybe not: according to a story from a Microsoft employee the models didn't know what Microsoft was.

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