13th Annual Webby Awards: more .mobi than ever.

13th Annual Webby Awards: more .mobi than ever.

This week, the winners of the 13th annual Webby Awards were announced. In the mobile division , 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.