What I voted for in the Webby Awards

Below are the nominees that I found deserved my vote on this year’s Webby Awards. If you think I missed one, let me know in the comments, and I might actually vote for it as well. And if you like my votes, feel free to follow my humble votes.

• Community: Delicious http://www.delicious.com
• Podcasts: TED.com http://www.ted.com
• Best Navigation: TED.com http://www.ted.com
• Best Practices: Digg http://www.digg.com
• Best Visual Design – Function: TED.com http://www.ted.com
• Retain: AROUND THE WORLD … http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/aroundtheworld
• Travel: TripIt http://www.tripit.com
• Charitable Organizations: Kiva.org — Loans… http://www.kiva.org

If you ever wondered if China was the upcoming superpower

A study recently done by comScore highlights that right now only 23% of the web users are from the US. In 1996 this used to be 66%. The upcoming country obviously is China. Although the US still has the largest absolute number of internet users (162 million), China already has 96 million. But more interestingly maybe is that in China (and other emerging countries), they main websites visits are not the ones we all know, such as Google or Yahoo. No in those countries homegrown websites have the most users.

So in the future Google might be just a small company

For more on this look at The Web in Charts—Google vs. Microsoft-Yahoo vs. China.