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The full list of the  Webby Awards winners, nominees and honorees are now available here.  Comedian Stephen Colbert received a Webby for being the Internet's "Person of the Year".  Mashable has a good summary here:

Given the amazing amount of social media and blogosphere award winners announced (not to mention the sheer volume of nominees and categories in general), it?ll probably be 2009 by the time I?m done with this post, but I?m going to take a crack at summarizing all the award winners you?ll be interested as an ardent and frequent reader of Mashable.

The Regulars
All the sites, services and software you?re already familiar with made appearances.  Facebook, Digg, Flock and Flickr and Apple all made appearances.  Conspicuously absent?  Business centric old-schoolers like LinkedIn and Plaxo and Facebook predecessors Friendster and MySpace (not to mention most popular browser evar Firefox).

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The New Guys
There were a number of startups that we?ve covered here at Mashable, but if you?re not one to closely follow every story we write you may not yet be aware of to bring home various awards.

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The New Media
Whether it?s the blogs you love, or the conferences you wish you were rich enough to get into, a lot of the blogs you visit regularly made their appearances in the awards listings. One particularly curious category (to me, at any rate, seemed to be the political blog category.  There didn?t seem to be any other categories of blogs nominated, and the selection of blogs in the political category were almost entirely liberal in nature.  We?ve talked about the left-leanings of the tech blogosphere here before, but it does seem to be an interesting quirk meant to provide an award for, well, the Huffinton Post.

Again, read more here.