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April 10, 2008
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| Photo by Rick Moore |
CSE graduate student Jesse Vig’s Web site, GeoGreeting.com, has been nominated for the Best NetArt Website as part of the 12th annual Webby Awards. Vig’s site was nominated in this category last year as well. The winners will be announced May 6 and will be honored at the Webby Awards ceremony in New York City. The nomination was mentioned in a story in the Star Tribune.
Vig’s Web site uses satellite images of letter-shaped buildings from Google Maps, which users can form into messages and can email to friends. The site boasts more than 1,200,000 visitors. Vig started the Web site as part of a class project, but the site grew to receive international notoriety and he has continued to make improvements to it. Vig recently changed the look of the site and also added letters sent in from new site users.
The Webby Awards is the Internet's leading award, according to its Web site, Webbyawards.com. The 2008 Webbys received close to 10,000 entries from more than 60 countries. For each category there is a people’s choice award and anyone can vote. Voting will occur until May 1 and can be done at People’s Choice Webby Awards.
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