There ought to be a web hacker Oscars

eggshell scriptCongratulations to all the winners at last night’s Academy Awards. I haven’t managed to see Black Swan yet, but I will before the week is out.

So here’s a thought: there should be a web hacker equivalent. No, not the Webby Awards, nor the Crunchies, but a bona fide celebration of bedroom hackers, coffee shop startups and people slinging really great code, libraries and projects – the people who really make the web tick. Categories might include:

  • Coolest API
  • Best documentation
  • Best hardware hack
  • Most disruptive idea
  • Best development essay
  • Best open source community
  • Best hackspace

Aside from kudos, prizes might include a small “+1” statuette, a selection of development tools, and cloud hosting. I bet some savvy infrastructure providers would be willing to sponsor the whole thing.

What do you think? What would you add?

Photo credit: eggshell script by Rakka, released under a Creative Commons license.


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  1. johndoe Avatar

    I would like to welcome you to the release of the Team dx Facebook Account Hacker V3. A recent patch meant that V2 would no longer work, but after some hard work and research we have managed to fix the patch. Our Facebook Account Hacker is once again functional. V2 was patched so fast because too many people were able to use it.

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