A group of Pixie users (started by Covey) have very kindly offered to donate proceeds from the sale of selected photographic prints to charities in aid of Haiti (eg. Covey's chosen charity). There are some amazing photos up for grabs and it would be great if you could help spread the word in order to maximise potential bids.
At the Forty Foot by Covey
All you have to do is leave a comment on the photo you like with a (reasonable) bid.
See the full selection of photos: http://pix.ie/explore/tag/printauctionforhaiti
If you would like to participate, please tag your photo(s) with printauctionforhaiti and edit the photo description to indicate what size print is being offered, which charity you have chosen along with any other terms and conditions you may have.
NOTE: Auctions are between photographer and their respective bidders and each photographer is responsible for their own auction, printing and fulfilment.
Following the success of our "Photo of the Day" initiative which we started in 2009, we decided to look back through all the photos uploaded during the year and choose one for the title of Pixie 2009 Photo of the Year!
With over 500,000 photos uploaded in 2009, choosing just one was a real challenge...
How Did We Choose?
Firstly we didn't actually look at half a million photos, instead we used the Pixie sorting algorithm which produces a real time view of the top (best) photos for a given period of time. People always ask us how this algorithm works and we always decline to say :). Let's just say it works!
We produced a list of the top 10,000 public photos uploaded during 2009 as determined by the community and presented these photos on a single web page as thumbnails (oh yes... it was a big page). The thumbnails were presented in random order and without any details of who took the shots. We then painstakingly scrolled down through the list and any photos which caught our eye were clicked and viewed large. An exclusion policy was used to eliminate photos that had been uploaded less than 500px in size, photos that had overbearing watermarks or photos that were of poor quality when viewed large. Using a special pixie account we then voted for photos that when viewed large were what we considered to be "truly outstanding". The list was narrowed to 658 photos...
Another page was created, this time showing only the 658 photos and at a size of 240px. 158 photos were eliminated on this pass. We now had our longlist of 500 photos. Still way too many...
The list was whittled down to 250 photos and the eliminations were getting really really difficult now with some of my personal favourites being lost on this pass. Another page was created, this time showing the remaining photos at a size 800px. More eliminations took place until we had our shortlist - just 50 photos remained.
Choosing the Winner.
We didn't choose the winner... you did. Yesterday we asked people to DM their nominations for Photo of the Year using Twitter and overwhelmingly, one photo kept popping up. That photo was "Under the Rain" by GilesK and it featured on our shortlist. We had absolutely no hesitation in agreeing with the majority that this was to be the Pixie Photo of the Year.
Pixie 2009 Photo of the Year
"Under the Rain" by GilesK
The 50 Most Outstanding Photos in 2009
It breaks my heart to know that there are photos which deserve to be mentioned here, but with only 50 spots it was impossible to list them all. If one of your photos is not listed here, then I am truly sorry, it probably should have been... Here is the final list:
"boys!!" by elponio
"no future" by Hazel
"The-Panic" by TownieLee
"I dream in technicolour..." by jodonnell
"St Patricks Parade-72" by NMIPhoto
"SPF09-31" by DarrenG
"Outcast" by keithjack
"IMG_0001 double daff" by DamienAPicasso
"Amiensstreet" by Wisdo
"Odie" by jhenryexp
"Chill Out" by magdaluka
"4_mg8252" by gabsriel
"red arrows 3" by adrianmegahey
"When it's raining outside " by MorningTea
"The Skelligs v2.0" by Valentia
"Gannet Colony " by LifeByTheDrop
"DSC07925" by liamp
"luke danniells usa breakdancers" by lukedanniells
"Puppy Love" by shortars
"poulnabrone_clare" by latchiko
"BMX'ing @ Poleberry" by FajitasGTR
"Baloon Man" by brownie
"Carlow Tree" by LifeByTheDrop
"Ballymacad Hounds" by keithjack
"cow mouse and shoe shoes 3" by katiemaloe
"Got to love those ears" by kefln
"alone ..." by LukT
"Small Bee - Hylaeus Male" by oshead
"220809" by ronanpalliser
"John 3-7" by Valentia
"Lion, London Zoo" by henrystuart
"New York-4" by spike
"090909090909" by dakar
"mist" by dakar
"REFLECTION" by IRELANDSOWN
"Lanc_Frei_800" by CabanSail
"The Nore at Mount Juliet - Early Morning" by mountjuliet
"Is there time to say a prayer" by dphotography
"IMG_3838" by hannedeneut
"mother and child" by liamp
"Imaginary Friend" by henrystuart
"Mahon Falls" by MddiEurphy
"cctv" by Hazel
"Phoenix Park Dublin10" by jennyrusks
"O'Donavan Rossa Bridge" by MickH51
"Loughness Seahorse Swan Monster" by LifeByTheDrop
"Dylan" by Valentia
"gherkin" by henrystuart
"Light Fighters" by TheSpaceBetween
From all of us at Pixie - Congratulations Giles and Happy New Year to all!
The photos have finally arrived in our inbox from the Golden Spiders and it's time for a blog post!
Clare Dillon (Microsoft) and Marcus Mac Innes (Pixie)
We are absolutely delighted to announce that on Thursday last Pixie won Best Social Networking and Community Website award at the Irish Golden Spiders Awards in Dublin. You may recall we also won this same award in 2007 (you can't win two years in a row) but the big difference for us this year is that this time around it was the public who voted us to win.
I would just like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to vote for us this year. Your votes really do count and we are so proud to have helped create the community that is Pixie!
Finally I'd like to thank our category sponsor Microsoft and the beautiful Clare Dillon (Developer and Platform Group Lead) pictured above who presented the award.
@DarraghDoyle does it again with a little help from @ericlalor
Check out his latest twitpix:
Hello Pix.ie I'm Pixie!
Thanks Darragh!
On Thursday 17th September 2009 the Sebastian Guinness Gallery, in association with Canon, Treasury Holdings and Fred Torres Collaborations, will launch an exhibition titled ‘American Jesus’ showcasing the photographic works by one of the world’s most respected contemporary photographers, David Lachapelle.
Exhibition
Lachapelle, a fine art photographer and director, is renowned for his iconic pop and celebrity images that for over the past two decades have continuously graced the pages of the leading fashion and entertainment magazines such as Vanity Fair, The Face, Rolling Stone, Vogue and Interview. Mixing glamour with surreal and comic fantasy, Lachapelle has created many memorable and striking images of luminaries such as Elizabeth Taylor, Pamela Anderson, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur and Britney Spears. His directing credits include music videos for artists such as Moby, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez.
Lachapelle’s stage work includes Elton John’s The Red Piano concert which recently ended a five year run at Ceaser’s Palace in Las Vegas and which will be staged at Dublin’s 02 for one night on October 30th.
Due to the extensive images on exhibit, the David Lachapelle ‘American Jesus’ exhibition will be located at Connaught House, 1 Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
This exhibition will be open to the public from the 19th September – 31st October, Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm. More info here: http://www.sebastianguinnessgallery.com
David LaChapelle Workshop - 20 Tickets Available to Pixie Members
How would you like to spend the day with David Lachapelle?
Thanks to Canon you can... the first 20 people to comment below with the words: "Thanks Canon (and Pixie) - I want a ticket for the workshop" along with your full name for the guest list will get one!
This private workshop is on next Friday 18th September between 2.15pm – 5pm and the running order is as follows:
- 2.15pm – Registration opens
- 2.45pm – Presentation by David LaChapelle on his work and techniques
- 3.45pm – Q&A
- 4.15pm – Free to look at the exhibition and Canon Zone
- 5pm – Close
The workshop event is being held in Treasury Holdings, Connaught House, 1 Burlington Road, Dublin 4 - http://www.treasuryholdings.com/contactus.aspx. The building is identifiable by the large statue of Maebh of Connacht outside.
This event is strictly by invite only and I will need to full name on the comment below to add you to the list.
Once again thanks Canon and David!
Twitter Integration Comes to Pixie!
Now you can share your photos on Twitter directly from your mobile phone! All you have to do authorise Pixie to send tweets, create an email contact ("TwitPix") on your mobile using the special email address provided during the setup process and you are good to go!
Then take a photo, email to TwitPix and we'll do the rest!
Sending is Simple
All Twitter photos we receive are automatically add to the TwitPix group so if you want to see what's happening right now, visit http://pix.ie/group/twitpix.
Thanks to everyone who beta tested the service and gave valuable feedback over the last few weeks, we couldn't have done without you!
Tweet From Pixie
Logged in users will also now notice a new "Tweet" button on photos and albums. Click Tweet to post to message and URL Twitter! It couldn't be simpler.
Setup TwitPix Now
Simply visit http://pix.ie/services/twitter/setup and Get Tweeting!
Here at Pixie we've been host to lots of great photo competitions! Some competitions are long running like the Guinness Storehouse monthly photo competition, some are about crowdsourcing photos from an event or festival and some are designed just to find a single great photo!
Introducing the Ruby Card Photo Competition
Due to launch in early September, Ruby Card is the new Irish prepaid credit card and in order to give the new card a fantastic look, Ruby Card are running a photo competition here on Pixie to find a single brilliant photo of Ireland to feature on the front of their card.
Win €2,500
Offering a whopping €2,500 as prize money, Ruby Card are inviting people to submit their best photos taken of counties in the Republic of Ireland. One photo will be chosen, the winning county will be featured and the lucky winner will get their very own Ruby Card loaded with €2,500 to spend!
The competition has already been running for a week or so and we’ve had lots of photos entered, but there a couple of points worth thinking about when submitting photos for this competition.
Some Tips!
Whenever a photo is to be used for a certain purpose, it’s important that you think about how it will be used. Just like stock photography which is more often than not about what areas of space are available within the photo to position the marketing message than simply how stunning the photo is, this competition is going to impose certain criteria on the winning photo.
Starting with the obvious, the Ruby Card is landscape and has an aspect ratio of approximately 8:5. Now that’s not to say that a square or portrait photo will not be chosen, but I bet a landscape photo whose proportions loosely fit the Ruby Card shape will have way more chance of being shortlisted and ultimately selected as the winner...
Next up is layout and obstructions. You can’t get away from the fact that the credit card has 4 major obstructions:
- The SIM chip
- The Ruby Card logo
- The hologram / MasterCard logo
- The card number and card holder’s details
If your photo still looks great even after those obstructions have been overlaid, I’d be very excited... The winner could be YOU!!! :D
Find out more and enter your photos in Ruby Card Photo Competition on Pixie now!
Are you in Dublin this weekend? Then check this out!
The Street Performance World Championship festival is on again this weekend in Dublin's Merrion square (until Sunday 21st June) and Pixie is proudly hosting the official SPWC photo sharing group.
There's a photo competition running and thanks to Canon there are some great prizes on offer!
Visit http://pix.ie/group/spwc to view or upload your photos!
Last weekend in Cork
Here are just a few photos from the festival in Cork last weekend:
photo by ronancatapult
photo by dan-spwc
photo by wyer
Upload Your Photos
To upload your photos just visit http://pix.ie/group/spwc
photo by darraghdoyle
See you there!
The Volvo Ocean Race is coming to Ireland this weekend and to celebrate, Galway is hosting a 15-day festival of sailing, music, culture and craic and all for free! Highlights include free concerts, street performance, an attempt to break the world record for Céilí dancing, a Red Arrows air display, markets, interactive exhibits including a simulator and the opportunity to be winched to the top of the mast of a Volvo Open 70 racing boat.
Photo Competition
And a festival wouldn’t be a festival without teaming up with Pixie to host their photo competition... Sponsored by LookWest.ie, the Galway Volvo Ocean Race is asking everyone to upload their photos to the official photo sharing group.
...and of course we have some goodies:
The festival runs from the 23rd May to the 6th June and during that time there are a bunch of cool things happening. Firstly when the boats arrive from Boston USA, there will be huge reception to receive them in. The world’s media will be covering the arrival and Pixie have secured a couple of VIP passes (well 10 actually...) for Pixie members who’d like to get a better position to see the boats and take photos as they arrive.
AND two lucky photographers will get media passes to go out with the world’s media on the VIP media boat in order to photograph the boats as they arrive from Boston. Whooa!
What do you have to do to get on board...? Get blogging and spread the word of course!
If you are interested, blog, tweet let people know the festival is on, remind them to upload their photos, and then leave a comment below indicating when you'd be interested in coming down. We'll be making selections in the usual way, so sit tight and get ready for a great opportunity :)
Prizes
Prizes include 3 digital cameras with a total value of over €1,500! So don' forget to enter your festival photos.
Logistics:
- May 23/24/25 – Boats arrive (exact date and time will be known closer to the time).
- May 30 – In harbour racing day (did I mention we have 2 passes for the media boat on this day too?)
- June 6 – The boat depart!
Okay so the above template is a complete rip off of the original Big Huge Labs Profile Widget but who cares because this is just the first of many templates we plan to offer.
Do you think you could do better?
We are calling on the community to help us come up with a new design for Pixie widget which stands out from the crowd. If you think you've got what it takes to design a killer looking widget, then go for it! We will pick our favourite from those submitted and implement it as a template for users here on Pixie.
Isn't that like a design contest? You betcha!
Design guide
- Dimensions: width:500px height:100px
- Thumbnail photos are available in the following sizes:
- Thumbnails may be cropped (rectangular or square only) to make them fit in your design.
- Users must be able to specify text and background colours.
- Template should contain transparent regions to allow background colour to show through.
- You retain the copyright in your design, but you must grant us an appropriate license to use it...
- Only original Photoshop .psd or Fireworks .png layered files will be accepted as a valid submissions.
...oh and the winner gets €50 :)
Pixie users can create their Bigger Huger Labs profile widget here: http://pix.ie/widgets/create (make sure you're logged in)
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UPDATE: I'm going to post the entries here:
Entry A - by Bohoe
Entry B - by Daniel Jordan
Entry C - by James Larkin
Entry D - by Dioptrovic
Entry E - by Julie Matkin
Entry F - by Pauleeee
Entry G - by Sully
Entry H - by bstone
Congratulations to Julie Matkin for winning the St Patrick's Festival photo competition and having her photo published in the Irish Times today!
Julie took first place in the competition and wins the Canon EOS 1000D digital SLR camera, Selphy ES3 photo printer, the photography training course, additional memory card and photo printing paper!
Click here to view all the photos from the 2009 St Patrick's Festival.
1st Prize
Today's Irish Times article by John Collins
2nd Prize 
3rd Prize
Congratulations also to Soundbeans for winning second place and Challengemaster for taking third place!
The official announcement can be found here: http://pix.ie/group/stpatricksfestival/discuss/topic/photo-competition-winners-announced
Special thanks to Canon for their sponsorship!
I was invited to speak on the topic of "Social Media Marketing: Redefining the Customer" at Interactive Return's annual Search Marketing World conference yesterday. Feedback has been really excellent and everyone was wowed by the presentation itself. Rather than use Powerpoint, I used a new tool called Prezi which has been in private beta for the last couple of months but is due to launch next Monday April 6th. Prezi is a zooming "prezentation" authoring tool which allows you to be very creative about how to present material especially photos.
I was the third speaker and to be honest I had a tough act to follow after Will McInnes and Ciaran Norris who both delivered exceptionally insightful talks.
My talk introduced some great social media companies that are based here in Ireland and featured some of the work Pixie that has been involved with over the last few months:
View the presentation full screen here: http://prezi.com/22405/view
The Guinness Storehouse have revealed the overall 2008 winner of the Share Your Experience photo competition!!!
Congratulations to Hazel Coonagh who picks up the €1,000 prize for her fantastic HDR photo:
"Pipes" by Hazel Coonagh
See more amazing photos from the competition here
The Share Your Experience photo competition is open to all Guinness Storehouse visitors and is run in association with Pixie.
If you are Pixie member and would like to have the opportunity to join us in the Storehouse to take photos on St Patrick's Day, just leave a comment over here to be added to the waiting list!
As some of you already know, Pixie has been working with the organisers of the Irish St Patrick’s Festival on a huge photo sharing project to help document this year’s festival in photos from the perspective of those attending. The aim is to invite everyone bringing their camera to this year’s events to contribute their photos to the official St Patrick’s Festival group so that the experience can be shared with people from all over the world.
To make things a little more interesting, we’ve created a competition (more details to follow) and will be selecting three lucky winners whose photos capture the spirit of the festival. Canon have very kindly offered to sponsor some of the best prizes we’ve seen in a photo competition and with a total value of just under €1,800, these are very generous prizes!!!
So here’s where you come in – we need your help to get the word out and to say thanks we’re got something to give back to the blogging community!
Whenever we work with festivals or corporate clients we always try to ensure that we can offer something special back to the Pixie community. Some of you may recall that when we signed the Share Your Experience deal with Diageo we celebrated by inviting a group of photobloggers to the Guinness Storehouse. For the St Patrick's Festival parade on March 17th, we've managed to get you something special too and we’re calling it the St Patrick's Festival Pixie Party:
- 20 bloggers and photobloggers will be invited to watch the St Patrick's Festival parade from a vetted viewing area. Each will be given an official wristband to gain access to this exclusive VIP area.
- 4 bloggers and photobloggers will be invited to watch the parade from the Festival Grandstand.
- 2 photobloggers will be invited to join the world media and take photos of the parade from the elevated position from the official open topped Media Bus which is positioned on the parade route.
- 2 Pixie users will chosen (subject to a security check) and given a Golden Pass which provides exclusive access to the parade route on the day. Only 12 Golden Passes will be issued this year to the international media and this is the first time photographers outside of the national and international media have been invited on into the parade route. This is HUGE.
How can you help? Write a blog post, post a photo on your blog, link to http://pix.ie/group/stpatricksfestival, re-tweet for @stpatricksfest, do anything to help us promote the project and competition then let us know about it by leaving a comment here so we can include you on the list. If there are more people who help out than places, we’ll have to make selections, but don’t worry it gets better...
To celebrate the Guinness 250 year anniversary, the
Guinness Storehouse are inviting
250 Pixie users, bloggers and photobloggers to continue the Pixie Party after the parade and join in the fun at the
Storehouse's annual Paddy's Day festival on March 17th:
“On St. Patrick's Day, Guinness Storehouse will host an electrifying global celebration of Guinness and the Irish national holiday with over 250 entertainers of every description. Prepare for a barrage of rock, soul, roots, swing, jazz and traditional Irish, as well as international street performers and marching bands. Learn how to Pour the Perfect Pint of Guinness like a true Dublin connoisseur, savour the taste of Guinness variants and try some food with a Guinness twist.” - More details of what to expect!!!
We've worked hard to get access and activities for the community on this one, so please help us spread the word and don’t forget to give the Storehouse and our sponsors Canon some link love!
Thanks to Susan, Daniela, Jonothan, Piaras, Lisa, Catherine, Alison, Sabrina, Darragh, Niamh and Kiall for all your help in putting this together.
Follow @stpatricksfest and @pixie on Twitter for more information and news about what is going on. (Hashtag for St Patricks's Festival is #spf09)
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UPDATE (Mar 14th 11:30) - As requested here is the list of people who have RSVP'd for the parade:
Aishling O'Neill,
Callum Conroy,
Conor lynch,
Tommie Lehane,
Darren Carr,
Darragh Doyle,
Darren Greene,
Gillian McEnteggart,
Deirdre Durran,
Elly Parker,
Claire Wilson,
Grannymar,
Hazel Coonagh,
Hugh Chaloner,
Jason Roe,
Jennifer Farley,
James McDermott,
Julie Matkin,
Kate Southall,
Kyle Tunney,
Brian O'Reilly,
Alexia Golez,
Louise Barnewall,
John Williams,
Nolene Dowdall,
Mohan S,
Niamh Smith,
Paddy Benson,
Phil O'Kane,
Red Mum,
Ryan Whalley,
Shane Murphy,
Sinead Mc Donald,
John Barrington,
Barry Delaney,
Tony Rooney,
Daniela Maskova,
Will Knott,
Treasa Lynch
We wish we could have allocated more places, but as mentioned above, numbers were limited and we did really well to get as many places as we did. Everyone who commented below so far is invited to join us at the Guinness Storehouse from 15:00 on Tuesday. We will be sending out a separate email with details about this shortly.
Congratulations to those who made the list - see you on Tuesday!
Huge congratulations to all the bloggers who carried home awards from this weekend's Irish Blog Awards.
But a special congratulations to Rymus who won the Pixie sponsored Best Photoblogger award. Really well deserved.
Lots more photos from the night have already been uploaded and hopefully there are some that won't be uploaded at all... ;)
Thanks to Damien Mulley and friends for hosting such a great evening.
Irish Deaf Kids, which supports inclusive education for deaf children, recently launched a bright, funky 2009 calendar with the top photos from its Kids “In Action” competition.
The competition, which was hosted on Pixie during the year, enabled IDK to create a level field for deaf and hearing people to show their ability through a visual medium. Awareness of deaf children in Ireland was also raised as entrants visited multiple areas of the irishdeafkids.ie website.
Caroline from the Irish Deaf Kids has asked if we will help get the word out to people who might like to buy calendars as presents for Christmas and we are more than happy to support this worthy cause! Two calendar formats are available to buy, a regular calendar with one square per day for reminders and appointments, and a family organiser with space for up to five people. The calendar is available to buy in various outlets or can be ordered by emailing info@irishdeafkids.ie or writing to Irish Deaf Kids, Terenure Enterprise Centre, 17 Rathfarnham Road, Dublin 6W. Cost: EUR 10 per calendar, plus EUR 1.25 p&p for the first item and EUR 0.70 per additional item.
Irish Deaf Kids is a "for-impact" venture aimed at supporting inclusive education for deaf children in Ireland while enabling parents to help their child reach their full potential. The Kids "In Action" photo project supports our goal of inclusive education by creating a level field for deaf and hearing people to show their ability through a visual medium. IDK also seeks to raise awareness about the different ways in which deaf people communicate, to link the deaf and hearing communities through projects and to 'demystify' deafness.
The users of the boards.ie photography forum have recently got together and contributed some of their best photographs to a fantastic new photo book in aid of Christmas charity, Santa Strike Force.
Santa Strike Force which is organised by boards.ie founder Tom Murphy (DeVore) is "quietly buying and distributing cool stuff for kids to hospitals and care-centres because it sucks being there for xmas and and Santa is very busy and we feel he should have some human helpers and the positions have been vacant long enough so we're volunteering. These gists are NOT given to the individual kids but rather to the charities themselves so that all kids will get use of them over the year". More info about the charity and how it works can be found here.
The book was designed and put together by our very own whyulittle and contains one of the most impressive selection of photos taken by the Irish photo community that I’ve seen. All proceeds from the book go to charity, so if you thinking of buying Christmas gifts this year, then we would strongly suggest adding this to your list.
If you want to help promote the book on your blog, please visit http://pix.ie/boardsbook2008 and grab one of the posters or badges which have been created by boards.ie user ThOnda or vlastik as he is known on Pixie :).
Many of the contributors are Pixie users so please check it out!
You can see a preview and order the book here: http://tinyurl.com/boardsbook
And the award for Best Use of Social Media goes to…. “Marcus Mac Innes of Pix.ie” – Yaaay!
According to Fergal O’Byrne, CEO of the IIA, Pixie received a massive amount of votes from Irish Internet industry! Thanks so much to everyone who voted for us to win, we really appreciate your support!
Pat Phelan won the overall NetVisionary award and I am absolutely delighted as Pat is without a doubt the most deserving of this prestigious title! Well done and congratulations Pat!
Other winners at last night's Net Visionary Awards included:
Twitter buddies in bold! :)
And the award for Best Practice goes to.... “Pix.ie” – Yaaay!
Saturday night was the MovieStar.ie Irish Web Awards and Pixie had been shortlisted in the category “Best Practice” appropriately sponsored by Lightbox who pride themselves on delivering the highest standards in web development in Ireland.
Having “Best Practice” as a category is relatively new for the Irish awards scene and quite a few people were curious and asked “so what is best practice?”...
According to Wikipedia “Best Practice is an idea that asserts that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. The idea is that with proper processes, checks, and testing, a desired outcome can be delivered with fewer problems and unforeseen complications. Best practices can also be defined as the most efficient (least amount of effort) and effective (best results) way of accomplishing a task, based on repeatable procedures that have proven themselves over time for large numbers of people.”
To us Best Practice is pride in our work, craftsmanship if you like and while this approach does require that bit of extra effort, it always pays off in the end. Quality will stand to you and in a lot of ways this is already evident here on Pixie as you explore the photos and realise that we have been selected as the photo sharing platform of choice by so many extremely talented photographers.
But winning this award goes deeper still and we are, I am, really honoured that Pixie has been judged by our peers and awarded this seal of approval!
Many thanks to Damien and his team for organising this event, thanks to the judges for taking the time to research, investigate and score all the nominees and congratulations to all the winners:
- Best Online Publication - sponsored by Red Cardinal - Irish Times
- Best Radio Website - sponsored by IGOPeople - Phantom FM
- Best Podcaster - sponsored by Irish Mortgage Brokers - Playlist Mix
- Best Videocaster - sponsored by eType Ireland - RTE
- Best Sports Site - sponsored by Spinnakerpro.com munsterfans.com
- Best Music Site - sponsored by UMusic.ie - State Magazine
- Best Entertainment Website - sponsored by Sensorpro.net - Entertainment.ie
- Best Technology Site - sponsored by BH Consulting - Silicon Republic
- Best New Web Application/Service - sponsored by InterTradeIreland’s SeedCorn - PollDaddy
- Most Innovative Website - sponsored by iQ content - Pixenate
- Best Discussion forum - sponsored by Brand Ignite - Boards.ie
- Best Government Website - sponsored by Interactive Return - Aras Kids
- Best Council Website - sponsored by Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd - Dublin.ie
- Best Third Level Website - sponsored by the Irish Computer Society - Access NUI Maynooth
- Best Education website - FIS Book Club
- Best eCommerce / Services Website - sponsored by Cybercom - Spicendipity
- An Suíomh Gaeilge is Fear - sponsored by Edgecast Media - Focal.ie
- Best Practice - sponsored by Lightbox - Pix.ie
- Most Beautiful Website in Ireland - sponsored by Beaut.ie - Twitterfone
- Most Useful Website in Ireland - sponsored by DoneDeal.ie - Irish Times
- Most Accessible Website - sponsored by iQ content - Kanchi
- Grand Prix - Best Website - sponsored by Moviestar.ie - Boards.ie
