The .net Awards celebrate the best in web design and development, and are brought to you by the world\'s best-selling magazine for web builders - .net. The 17 categories for 2009 range from Design Agency of the Year and Mobile Site of the Year through to the Infamy Award

From its birth in the labs of Tim Berners-Lee back in 1992, to its interaction with the Napster in 1999, and its 2004 induction of Wikipedia: the Internet as we know it, has evolved drastically, been around the world literally, and changed the way humans live permanently.

This list of web-based resources will point you toward web sites that will help you learn how to do new things, stay on top of current events, and learn about topics where your current knowledge may be lacking. And these resources will do all that in under 10 minutes each day.

Social media is helping to forge a new era in business transparency and engagement, creating both new challenges and opportunities.

The Real-Time Web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it\'s available - instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. It can be enabled in many different ways and can require a different technical architecture. It\'s being implemented in social networking, search, news and elsewhere - making those experiences more like Instant Messaging and facilitating unpredictable innovations. Early benefits include increased user engagement (\"flow\") and decreased server loads, but these are early days. Real-time information delivery will likely become ubiquitous, a requirement for almost any website or service.

In this article, we ll take a look at a pre-design process known as wireframing. It?s used by designers to help define a website?s essence before working on the time consuming details.

we analyze the 5 biggest trends of 2009 on the Web, review the iTunes and iPhone announcements made by Apple during the week, tell you about a new Wordpress feature that makes blogs more real-time, and more.