This week, the winners of the 13th annual Webby Awards were announced. In the mobile division -- of which dotMobi was the founding sponsor way back at the dawn of the mobile Web revolution -- there were several .mobi winners:
The Best Use of GPS or Location Technology award went to Adidas Marathon Run Tracker at http://marathon.marvellous.mobi. The Mobile Entertainment award went to Discovery Mobile at http://discovery.mlogic.mobi. The Mobile Sports award winner and People's Voice award winner went to ESPN Mobile at http://espn.mobi.
Also nominated for Integrated Mobile Experience was Virgin Atlantic's Love from Above campaign (now retired but formerly at lovefromabove.mobi) and for Listings & Updates was previous award winner ZAGAT.mobi (which you can easily find at http://zagat.mobi). Several other .mobi sites were named as honorees, including:
- http://arrivedok.mobi (ArrivedOK, the personal arrival tracker)
- http://muslim.mobi (daily prayer times for the global Muslim community with city locator)
- http://dolcegabbana.mobi (D&G Fashion Channel)
- http://radiodisney.mobi (Radio Disney)
- http://tinkfairies.mobi (Disney Interactive Media Group)
- http://udrapartments.mobi (UDR’s mobile apartment search)
- http://blackberry.mobi (Blackberry)
An application we've previously mentioned from mobiSiteGalore.mobi, which allows mobile users to build a mobile-ready site directly from their phones, was also cited as one of the Webby Awards' honorees.
In all, this represents a very strong showing from .mobi users as well as representing a broad swath of uses of the .mobi domain -- and is definitely a big step forward from the minimal number of mobile categories (and sites) that we saw only three years ago.
If you're interested, you can see the full list of mobile nominees and winners at the Webby Awards Web site.
