Bkaro.net is simply top
The Swiss artist platform wins an IP Top Award at the Content Summit 2001
The Swiss artist platform wins an IP Top Award at the Content Summit 2001By Clemens Hörler Like the entire Internet industry, the Content Summit 2001 and the IP Top Awards also felt the effects of the current crisis. Significantly fewer websites were submitted for the IP Top Awards than last year. That is why there were only three prizes instead of the planned nine.
Bkaro.net is probably unknown even to most Internet connoisseurs. The website of BaBit Internet Lösungen, Lausanne, is a community and virtual gallery for artists from all over the world, who are given their own exhibition wall (bkaro) and can network with each other. The concept convinced the jury of the IP Top Awards (www. iptop.com): The artists' platform won the Special Prize, which primarily rewarded pioneering and original ideas. Second and third place in this category went to ZDF.reporter and Everypoet.com.
Around 130 websites from 25 countries were submitted for the European internet competition, around half as many as last year. Switzerland was best represented with 29 entries. Award organizer Jasper van der Hulst suspects that the decline in participants has to do with the tightened investment brake. Online publishers who were unable to equip their sites with the latest features and are currently cooking on the back burner would not have believed they could win and would not have entered their websites in the first place.
Success also for IWC and Futurecom
Due to the decline in participation, prizes were not awarded in all planned categories. The websites in the Financial Content, Sports Content, Corporate Communications, Entertainment, Documentary/ Reports and Content Development categories were lumped together. The best site from this pot was ZDF.reporter (reporter. zdf.de), which received the "Best European Interactive Content" award. In second place was the corporate site of International Watch Company (www.iwc.ch), which was designed by Futurecom interactive AG, Zurich. It was followed by the Europhie website of HypoVereinsbank, an interactive emotion barometer for the introduction of the euro.
This year, news sites were once again elevated to the top category. After all, the IP Top Awards are presented as part of the Content Summit, an event aimed primarily at online publishers. The "Best European Newssite" award was won by BBC Online (www.bbc.co.uk) ahead of The Guardian and Spiegel Online.
To evaluate the sites, the judges first made a pre-selection and nominated the best sites for the final round. These were compared with each other using the Nextexpertizer evaluation software. The judging tool from the German company Nextpractice GmbH (www.nextpractice.de) was designed to make it possible to combine the quantitative possibilities of a questionnaire survey with the qualitative informative value of a personal interview.
The judges were able to enter their criteria in their own words on the computer and rate the websites according to each of these criteria. Nextexpertizer summarized these subjective thoughts and created the ideal image of the winner from the various approaches. The website that came closest to the ideal image was
was chosen as the winner by the software. The most frequently mentioned criteria for the final ranking of the news sites were content quality, user-friendliness and interactivity.
One factor that is not covered by the software, but can still be decisive, is language. In an international competition, a purely Czech site has little chance of being pre-selected by the jury if almost none of the jury members understand Czech. Websites in German, and above all in English, have an easier time of it...
Bkaro.net is probably unknown even to most Internet connoisseurs. The website of BaBit Internet Lösungen, Lausanne, is a community and virtual gallery for artists from all over the world, who are given their own exhibition wall (bkaro) and can network with each other. The concept convinced the jury of the IP Top Awards (www. iptop.com): The artists' platform won the Special Prize, which primarily rewarded pioneering and original ideas. Second and third place in this category went to ZDF.reporter and Everypoet.com.
Around 130 websites from 25 countries were submitted for the European internet competition, around half as many as last year. Switzerland was best represented with 29 entries. Award organizer Jasper van der Hulst suspects that the decline in participants has to do with the tightened investment brake. Online publishers who were unable to equip their sites with the latest features and are currently cooking on the back burner would not have believed they could win and would not have entered their websites in the first place.
Success also for IWC and Futurecom
Due to the decline in participation, prizes were not awarded in all planned categories. The websites in the Financial Content, Sports Content, Corporate Communications, Entertainment, Documentary/ Reports and Content Development categories were lumped together. The best site from this pot was ZDF.reporter (reporter. zdf.de), which received the "Best European Interactive Content" award. In second place was the corporate site of International Watch Company (www.iwc.ch), which was designed by Futurecom interactive AG, Zurich. It was followed by the Europhie website of HypoVereinsbank, an interactive emotion barometer for the introduction of the euro.
This year, news sites were once again elevated to the top category. After all, the IP Top Awards are presented as part of the Content Summit, an event aimed primarily at online publishers. The "Best European Newssite" award was won by BBC Online (www.bbc.co.uk) ahead of The Guardian and Spiegel Online.
To evaluate the sites, the judges first made a pre-selection and nominated the best sites for the final round. These were compared with each other using the Nextexpertizer evaluation software. The judging tool from the German company Nextpractice GmbH (www.nextpractice.de) was designed to make it possible to combine the quantitative possibilities of a questionnaire survey with the qualitative informative value of a personal interview.
The judges were able to enter their criteria in their own words on the computer and rate the websites according to each of these criteria. Nextexpertizer summarized these subjective thoughts and created the ideal image of the winner from the various approaches. The website that came closest to the ideal image was
was chosen as the winner by the software. The most frequently mentioned criteria for the final ranking of the news sites were content quality, user-friendliness and interactivity.
One factor that is not covered by the software, but can still be decisive, is language. In an international competition, a purely Czech site has little chance of being pre-selected by the jury if almost none of the jury members understand Czech. Websites in German, and above all in English, have an easier time of it...
