FWA People's Choice Award

Be sure to get your vote in for the 2007 FWA People's Choice Award.

I spent sometime going through each of the nominees to determine my vote for Site of the Year, and noticed that many of the sites are absolutely gorgeous, have high production value, and make heavy use of 3D and video. But really, they're just a big movie. It's pre-rendered cut scene, click a button, pre-rendered cut scene, click a button, so on and so forth. There isn't a real distinction between the interactive models used across many of the SOTM nominees.

Some websites, such as the Get the Glass done by North Kingdom and Goodby, Silverstein & Parters, add an extra layer of richness through the board game metaphor, doing a much better job of disguising the scripted user path. Others, not so much.

Therefore my votes (the judges get to pick their top 3) tended to lean towards the more app like sites, that enable people to do what something that they might have been difficult or impossible to do before. I'm curious to see what the results will be for the next round of voting.