Thursday, June 01, 2006

Prince to Receive Special Webby Award

Webby Awards

The Webby Awards? The Webbies? They are, as they say themselves, the online Oscars, awarded to outstanding contributions to the Web, such as, reasonably, the very best websites.

CafePress won the best retail Webby last year.

Anyway, Prince is about to win a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Webbies. Why? Because Prince has always fully used the capabilities of the Web, in fact being a Web pioneer. For example, Prince was the first major artist to release an entire album - 1997's Crystal Ball - exclusively on the Web. Note that this was in 1997.

Prince also has made available on his website seven full-length CDs of music unavailable anywhere else.

Prince's website

The Webby Awards website