MS Awards 2010

Giving something back
(WORLD) The red carpet is out, we’re all tuxed up and the champagne has been popped… sounds like the perfect time to announce the 2010 MediaSnackers Awards.
Here we go:
- Best Overall Platform : Tweetdeck
- Best Newcomer : DropBox
- Best Piece of Technology : Kodak Zi8
- Best Free Install/App : Adobe AIR
- Champion Achievers : Palmerston North City Library
And now for the acceptance speeches:
The winners were chosen at our recent development day and are basically given to people and companies who have helped to make us look good over the past year—thank you guys.
The new category of 'Champion Achievers' is awarded to a client who have made some great strives to adopting social media into their operations (we know it could be a potentially dangerous move but we have nice clients so we know they won't take it personally).
Here’s what the awards look like :

What do you think? Good choices?
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February 15th, 2010
Dropbox and Adobe – Guys what happened?
Great stuff though mate – those trophies are beautiful btw – I want one :)
February 15th, 2010
Hard to judge if these are good choices without knowing your criteria for selection but Tweetdeck and Dropbox are fantastic choices imho. I might have actually gone as far as to say Dropbox for best platform as it’s completely changing the way I work.
For best piece of tech I know this is a cliche but I’d probably have gone for something like the iPhone as it continues to enable social digital interaction and with the app store Apple have enabled innovation mid-product cycle so we don’t have to wait for them to iterate before we get another cool piece of functionality.
Adobe AIR, hrm, it’s potentially great in terms of cloud based applications on your desktop. I’ve yet to see a really really cool app tho that does stuff like caching for offline reading and the ability to write messages now and send when you’re online or similar.
But, overall, great choices :)
Would love to read more about your selection criteria.
February 15th, 2010
@Mark – looks like Steve Jobs was right and Adobe are lazy ;)
February 15th, 2010
“Champion Achievers” a brilliant new category indeed…I nominate Mark for the ‘best name that sounds like a Victorian childrens parlour game’…
February 16th, 2010
@Kieran – re: selection criteria – we all submitted our nominations before the dev day and then voted for the best after some discussion (not very scientific and unapologetically personal) :-)