Wikitravel wins Webby Award for best website

By Heri May 3rd 2007 in entrepreneurship

The Webby Awards are awards given to the world’s best websites since 1996. It is held by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences to recognize key achievements: last year, some of the winners were Google Earth, ESPN, postsecret, flickr or whashingtonpost.com

Yesterday, the winners were announced and wikitravel was chosen as the best travel website.

Wikitravel was by Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins. They started the project in Montreal, and still have a team contributing to the wiki.

As a sidenote, webbys are famous for their acceptance speech, which are limited to 5 words. You can find hilarious quotes for the 2006 awards. Evan wrote “how great is that?” in his blog – I am not sure if this is his acceptance “speech”, but congratulations then to the duo! This is a recognition for years of hard work.

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Evan Prodromou May 03, 2007

Actually, we started the project here in Montreal! And we still have a team of two working on it, right here.

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Heri May 03, 2007

Hi Evan

thanks for explaining this out. I thought you said it in the previous democamp

its corrected

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