+Artzest Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Geocaching won a Webby! Congratulations! Geocaching won a well deserved People's Voice Webby for community! A Webby is the most prestigious award you can win on the web! Great work and THANK YOU Geocaching.com! Shawna Kelly Co-Manager & Editor Northern California Mobile Computing SIG http://www.mobilecomputingsig.com Quote Link to comment
+Capt. Jack & 1st Mate Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 anticlimax setting in Quote Link to comment
+Spzzmoose Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 ALLLLRIGHT!!!! Way to go! Thanks to everyone who voted(me included!) Congrats geocaching.com Spzzmoose & "the monsters" Quote Link to comment
+Polgara Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 "The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator." - Louis Pasteur Quote Link to comment
+TresOkies Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Cool beans! Way to go crew! -E -- N35°32.981 W98°34.631 Quote Link to comment
+Artzest Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhoooooooooooooo! Geocaching won a Webby! Geocaching won a Webby! Geocaching won a Webby! How exciting!!! I love it when recognition is SO well deserved! Shawna Kelly Co-Manager & Editor Northern California Mobile Computing SIG http://www.mobilecomputingsig.com Quote Link to comment
+zoltig Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 GO CACHERS. GO CACHERS. GO CACHERS. STIR THE POT. STIR THE POT. (/) (_) () My hockey Mom beat up your soccer Mom. http://coloradogeocaching.com/ Quote Link to comment
G.O. Mental Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 okay so i was so excited i didnt see this topic before starting another one. well anyway.....WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!! -t- Quote Link to comment
Max Cacher Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 This site truly deserves it . TG Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Way to go everyone @Geocaching.com and all US cachers THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE FOREST DOES NOT EVEN LIVE THERE*********WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS*GEOTRYAGAIN **1803-2003 "LOUSIANA PURCHASE" 200TH ANNIVERSARY AND THE "LEWIS AND CLARK EXPADITION" http://www.lapurchase.org http://www.msnusers.com/MissouriTrails Quote Link to comment
+Ttepee Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Did we ever doubt it? Talk about being slashdotted.... sounds like an opportune time for a drum roll... how goes it folks? Quote Link to comment
Cholo Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by shawnakelly:Geocaching won a Webby! Congratulations! Is that better than a Wedgie? Quote Link to comment
+smithdw Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Congratulations geocaching.com for the Webby award. It is well deserved. Also, thank you Jeremy and all the admins and many other people who work on the site for making it available to us all. I also think that all the geocachers who use the site should be congratulated for all the votes and all the caches and logs submitted to the site. From the About Geocaching page - As of today, there are 55634 active caches in 174 countries. In the last 7 days, there have been 32075 new logs written by 8354 account holders. That's a lot of geocaching going on. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo Quote Link to comment
+timpaula Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Congrats to jeremy & the rest at Groundspeak. Community is a great category to win, and you deserve it since you've created much more than a website, you've established an active, enlightened, widespread community of cool & caring people. Anyone that can create some technology and get tens of thousands of web-heads to GO OUTDOORS is very deserving of the highest accolades & thanks. <timpaula> Quote Link to comment
+Gaddiel Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Great accomplishment and an outstanding web site! Thanks to Jeremy and the crew for feeding our obsession! Quote Link to comment
Astropilot Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Congratulations to the Team! You do a great job, and deserve the recognition!!! Keep up the great work. Good enough... Never is!! Quote Link to comment
+TMAN264 Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Congratulations GC.com, and thats for the e-mail to get my lazy butt to vote! It is great site, and the fact that people can use it for free can play too is amazing. I still encourage people to become a charter member, but that is a personal choice! Make a sanity check. Quote Link to comment
Dru Morgan Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I don't want this to get taken the wrong way, because I love this site. I spend more time here than with my wife, if you total the hours up. But, What The Hell is a Webby???!!! First, you should know, I signed up and voted like a good little cacher, but, what is it? I have been involved with the internet long before the web was ever conceived. I teach web design for a living. I have never heard of a webby before this. The way some people talk about it, you would think we were winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I think even a Daytime Emmy has more recognition than a webby. Seriously, why is this any different than any of the other "Top 5% of the web" type awards? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the site, but I just don't see why people are peeing their pants with excitement over this. Ever notice how anyone that caches more than you do is a maniac, while anyone that caches less than you do is an idiot? -Dru Morgan Quote Link to comment
Jeremy Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Thanks everyone! Personally the People's Voice Award for community is a huge statement as to how Geocaching (and humbly, Geocaching.com) has created a bona fide global community of participants on what I would consider the first Internet game that you need to leave your computer to play. That's a big mouthful. As for the Webby itself, I was disappointed we didn't also win it but I expected the award to go two ways -> Award the Webby to a community web site, or award the webby to a community-enabling web site. BBC Video Nation, Geocaching and Nervous industries were all community web sites, while LiveJournal.com and Meetup both enable the creation of communities (LiveJournal less so). Meetup has a well designed web site and I congratulate them for the Webby. But I feel that the People's Voice Award was well deserved. You guys rock. Dru, and others who are unfamiliar of the Webby, it had enormous prestige during the dot com boom, but since then it has diminished just as spectacularly as it rose. This year it was explained that travel concerns forced them to move the awards online, but I'm sure there were underlying currents that forced their hand. Regardless, I've followed the Webbys since its inception and consider it a fine honor to be nominated (especially since we didn't pay to enter the competition) for the award in the first place. Out of the billions of web sites only 150 sites total are nominated. It's nice to share an arena with sites like ESPN and BBC News. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Congratulations Jeremy, Staff, Geocaching.com and us! I include us since we are the community of which we speak. I voted! A few times. Cache you later, Planet So many caches, so little time. Quote Link to comment
+Divine Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Yeah baby, yeah! - I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. - Quote Link to comment
+benjamin921 Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Cool Great job everyone! Quote Link to comment
Tikiroy Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Congrats to all involved...It's really great to be a part of such a wonderful community!!! Quote Link to comment
+Geosaur Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Congrats to the Geocaching team! The site got my vote. Geosaur :: Geocaching Lizard Quote Link to comment
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