YouTube, eBay won the 'Oscar of the Internet' award.

David Bowie, eBay, YouTube and Website photo sharing Flickr are the bright stars in the Webby Awards 2007 night - the prize is like the "Oscar" of the Internet village.

The winners at this year's awards ceremony were selected from more than 8000 nominations from 60 different countries - a record number. The result is determined by 400,000 user votes and a panel of 80 experts divided equally among 100 categories of awards.

" Our goal is to honor all the achievements on the Web, " said David-Michel Davies, managing director of the annual award Webby. "The Web has stripped out entertainment and media, and the winners will go down in history because they are part of that revolution ."

The "Best Practices" award - rated as the most important category because it dissects the "perfect" level of design, content and technology of a Website - already belongs to Flickr website. Yahoo's .com, where users can organize personal photo albums and share it with their friends.

Screenshot One of two Webby Awards Lifetime Achievement Awards was given to veteran singer David Bowie, who "extended the borders to both art and technology". Bowie spent money to build an ISP called BowieNet in 1998 and founded a digital media company called UltraStar, and even launched a Website "Online Gallery" initiative at BowieArt.com.

The remaining Achievement Award went to eBay Online Auction Website, which is attracting 233 million buyers and sellers with membership registration.

The "Webby Character of the Year" award went to Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, two co-founders of YouTube video sharing site.

This is a result that doesn't surprise anyone, because the dominance of YouTube over the past year is obvious. YouTube has had a profound impact on the media district and "redefines everything, from politics to mass culture".

And for the first time in its 11-year history, Webby Awards introduces new categories, honors online videos and movies, interactive ads and mobile content.

" In the past few years, we have enjoyed excellent films and online video content, to the extent that the jury has decided: This is an important content channel that needs to be honor, "said Davies.

New Zealand actress Jessica Lee Rose, a celebrity on the YouTube site, nicknamed "Lonelygirl115" won the Best Actress award.

"Lonelygirl115" blog site tells the troubled life of a teenage girl who has attracted millions of viewers every day, but in the end, people have discovered that all is just a drama. Lonelygirl115 was actually played by a professional actress, and the script was also built by a production team.

Best actor award for Ninja in online comedy series "Ask a Ninja". This is a program produced by two American comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, with the main character being a masked ninja specializing in answering the emails sent by viewers in a language "very much Ninja". The ending sentence is always " I will wait until the day to kill you ".

The "Odd" award was given to Cute Overload, a blog dedicated to uploading photos and videos of admired animals.

Trong Cam