Havoc Inspired

I was lucky enough to attend the .net award ceremony this year. Boagworld was again shortlisted for podcast of the year, for which we won, and that nice man Paul asked me to collect the award as he was hosting the event.

It was a glitzy affair (I had to wear a suit!) held at the Altitude 360 which is on the 29th floor of Millbank Tower in London. The views are astounding!

The view from Altitude 360

Boagworld won podcast of the year for the second year in a row which is fantastic. We were up against CreativeXpert and Freelance Radio which are great podcasts and well worth a listen to.

Podcast of the Year - Boagworld

Other awards went to:

Design agency of the year: ClearLeft
Web application of the year: Dropbox
Viral campaign of the year: Best Job in the World by Nitro
Best community site: Twitter
Open source application of the year: jQuery
Redesign of the year: whitehouse.gov
Innovation of the year: Google Chrome
Interactive site of the year: Nvidia Speak Visual by Odopod and Cutwater
Standards Champion: Jeffery Zeldman
Blog of the year: Smashing Magazine
Best API use: TweetDeck
Web personality of the year: Stephen Fry
Infamy award: IE6
Vodcast of the year: Diggnation

Congratulations to everyone who won.

A definite highlight of the evening was Stephen Frys acceptance video for his award!

Was also awesome to catch up/finally meet: Dan Oliver, Tom May, Oliver Lindberg, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith, Natalie Downe, Sarah Parmenter, Sam Brown, Elliot Jay Stocks, Jason Cale, Cath Boag, Paul Boag, Ian Forrester, Natalie Jahangiry, Simon Campell, Simon Collison and Jamie Pittock.

Congratulations to the .net team for throwing such a successful event. Maybe I could be nominated for Vodcast of the year next year? *wink wink*

Also thanks for the goody bag!

.net Awards Goody Bag