Webbys: Twittter was the "Revelation of the Year" awards in the Internet

The Webbys Awards, seen as the "Oscars of the Internet" attributed to Twitter, the service for sending messages with only 140 characters, the prize of "Revelation of the Year."

The prizes were awarded Monday in a gala dinner in Manhattan that was attended by several personalities of both the Internet and traditional media.

As it is usual, the winners could tell them what was going on in the soul speeches with only five words. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, chose "Creativity is a renewable source."

What is considered the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, was also honored with the career award. The British genius left the message "Free. Open. Maintaining a network. "

The New York Times "was another of the big winners of the night, raising 10 trophies, including the audience prize for best online newspaper. But the crisis of the American press was not forgotten. The Boston Globe, "in danger of closing, won the award for Best Use of Photography, but the representative of the newspaper said in his speech that was not the journalism that was dying. Already Arianna Huffington, founder of the site "Huffington Post," which collected the award for Best Political Web Site, not admitted any liability in the current crisis, saying: "Do not kill the newspaper, OK?"

These prizes are awarded on the Internet since 1996 by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, to which David Bowie, Francis Ford Coppola or Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet.