Internet Oscars: Firstpost iPad app honoured at Webby Awards

Within a year of the Firstpost app being launched, we are delighted to have found mention in the Webby Awards list of honorees under the mobile apps (tablet and all other devices) category.

Firstpost finds itself in enviable company. The nominees in this category are Mashable for iPad, TechCrunch, Al Jazeera English magazine, T_he Sunday Times_ iPad edition, NY Times for iPad.

[caption id=“attachment_693293” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Screen-grab of Firstpost on iPad.[/caption]

Firstpost’s app is one of 13 honorees, the others being AP, TMZ, U-T San Diego, CBS This morning, Washington Post Politics, Fortune iPad app, Bloomberg, CNN /Time Convention Floor Pass, Huffington Post iPad app, The Wider Image, All Things D News, Scoopinion Browser.

If you haven’t downloaded your Firstpost app here, here’s a video which will convince you that you should, now!

Need more reasons? Two visitors to the Webby Awards website had this to say about our app:

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“A well designed app worth accolades. The User Interface could be no better.”

- Photorealm

“A new & timely app, that integrates your personal goals with the macro information. It’s your scattered information on the TV, computer and other devices rolled into one. Great stuff guys, and strongly recommended.”

Ravish Dhamija

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.

Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, The Webbys is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) - a 1,000+ member judging body that includes Executive Members comprised of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals.

The Academy includes members such as musician David Bowie, Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf, Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post Media Group, Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone, Chairman and Founder of R/GA Bob Greenberg, Co-Founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom, Executive Creative Director at Google Lab, Iain Tait, Mozilla CEO and Chair Mitchell Baker, Tumblr Founder David Karp, and Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, Lawrence Lessig.