The surreal ChatRoulette social network, which in just a few months has attracted the attention of millions of people around the world, was honored today at the Webby Awards, considered the Oscars of the Internet.
Andrey Ternovskiy, a Russian teenager who created this site to your friends, attended this gala event, held in New York, which were granted awards that the winners were already known since May, and among them were the actor Jim Carrey, film critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker David Lynch.
Born in November 2009, ChatRoulette completely random matches and by videoconference to the tens of thousands of users connected at all times to this website, which promotes contacts among strangers surreal, sometimes end up with dye pornographic.
The New York Times reported recently that the network was "one of those gloriously simple ideas that manages to harness the power of the Internet craze in a potentially revolutionary."
"The success of ChatRoulette offers a refreshing reminder that the Internet still offers a level playing field where anyone with a great idea or product to succeed," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the awards, in a press release before the gala.
Was also given special recognition for the choir composed of students 10 years of PS 22, the New York borough of Staten Island, who jumped to fame thanks to YouTube video portal, where his performances have been more than 17 million people.Children in this choir has among its fans with such familiar characters as the actor Ashton Kutcher, who said on Twitter that "loves these children" - an Oscar winner Marcia Gay or the star of "Knight Rider", David Hasselhoff.
The young singers rose to fame when his teacher, Gregg Breinberg, hung up on YouTube videos in which students interpreted the known numbers such as "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay.
Since then his fame has led them to sing at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York and act together with the Australian group Crowded House.
During the gala today also presented the Person of the Year award from the renowned online film critic and Pulitzer winner, Roger Ebert, and the Webby Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Vinton Cerf, one of the "fathers "Internet.
Best Actress in the network was the comedian Amy Poehler, well known in the U.S. for his impressions on "Saturday Night Life", but on this occasion was honored for its "Smart Girls in the Party", dedicated to interviewing and assessing young girls with big ambitions.
The highest number of awards it got the humor site College Humor and The New York Times, both with five awards.
The famous Muppets (Muppets) won four, including the most viral video of his rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody."
They also got four awards National Geographic, CBS, Sundance and HBO, while Twitter, Next New Networks, TED.com, VBS.tv, AOL and Mashable were made with three.
Other winners were the political and humorous montages "Auto-Tune the News", the humorously informative Colbert Nation and the project of film director David Lynch to conduct interviews with people he finds while traveling on U.S.
Among the most famous faces, highlights of Jim Carrey, who took a prize for its website; Lisa Kudrow in "Web Therapy", Isabella Rosselini in "Green Porno" Brad Pitt with his "Make It Right", Daryl Hall and his "Live from Daryl''s House" and Jaime Pressley in Axe ad "Clean Your Balls."
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