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Louis C.K., Bjork among Webby Awards winners

NEW YORK (AP) ? When Louis C.K. released his comedy special "Live at the Beacon Theater" by himself on his website for $5, it was little more than a cautiously optimistic experiment.

Less than two weeks later, it had reaped more than $1 million. Already among the most respected stand-ups in the country, Louis C.K. was suddenly a new media trailblazer, too.

On Tuesday, the Webby Awards announced Louis C.K. is their "person of the year" for setting "a new precedent for distribution." Comedians Aziz Ansari and Jim Gaffigan have since similarly released albums online.

The Webbys, which celebrate Internet achievement, announced the winners of its 16th annual awards on Tuesday. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which present the awards, shared the winners with The Associated Press shortly before they were to make an official announcement.

The awards spanned the breath of the Internet, from mobile apps like Instagram and Pinterest that have disrupted social media, to entertainers charting new digital ground, like Louis C.K. and Bjork.

Bjork was named artist of the year. Last year, the Icelandic musician released the album "Biophilia" as a multimedia presentation of music and apps.

She was among the special recognitions named by the Webbys, which also cited the photo app Instagram as breakout of the year. It was recently acquired by Facebook for $1 billion.

"It's been a huge year of change," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a group of about 1,000 Web experts and Internet professionals.

Also specially honored were Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard, who share the award for best actress for the viral video "S--- Girls Say." The video, which parodies common expressions, has been watched more than 16.2 million times on YouTube and spawned a viral sensation of countless similar videos. Sheppard, a male comic, appears in drag in the video.

In more than 130 regular categories, the Webbys give two winners per category: an official Webby award and a "people's voice" pick chosen from online votes.

Ferrell, who co-founded the comedy website Funny Or Die, won best individual performance for a video in which he reprised his impression of President George W. Bush, reacting to Osama Bin Laden's death.

The Onion won for best humor website and its video arm, the Onion Network, earned best writing in an online video for its satirical morning TV show video: "How to Get a Guy to Notice You While You're Having Sex With Him."

The pinboard-style website Pinterest won for best social media app, as well as a people's voice award for best functioning visual design. Best music app went to the streaming service Spotify, which Davies said typified "the intersection we're seeing between social and entertainment."

HBO Connect won for best TV website. The New Yorker's website won for best editorial writing.

One new category, people's special achievement for social change, went to Facebook. The award, which was voted for online, honors "important Internet work that played an integral role in advancing and organizing the masses."

The awards will be handed out in a May 21 event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. Patton Oswalt will host the awards, whose winners are famously restricted to five-word acceptance speeches.

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Online:

http://wbby.co/winners

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Galaxy Nexus for Verizon Wireless receives Android 4.0.4 update

Owners of the Galaxy Nexus for Verizon Wireless are now joining the proud ranks of Android 4.0.4 users. As a common practice, it seems the rollout is gradual, and many of the devices receiving the update appear to be the property of corporate stores. Nonetheless, the 39.8MB download carries a build number IMM76K and similarly brings an update to the baseband software -- which is reason to hope that the (resolved) connectivity issues reported by Android 4.0.4 users of the HSPA+ and Sprint variants will be a non-issue. Are you one of the proud and few to receive the refresh? Let us know in the comments below.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Patrick Schwarzenegger Tweets Prom Photo

Over the weekend Patrick Schwarzenegger, the son of Arnold, Tweeted a photo of himself experiencing a typical teen rite of passage: his senior prom.

The 18-year-old attended with another celebrity offspring, legendary music producer (and American Idol mentor) Jimmy Iovine's daughter Jade Iovine.

Check out their cute Instagram prom photo below:

In addition to being a student, Patrick is a model, aspiring actor and a designer for the charity-driven clothing line Project 360. Not bad for a teenager.

In the pic, classmate Jade, in a white, strapless dress, pins a boutonnière to his tuxedo. He captioned the pic: "Prom with my best friend @jadeiovine."

Then he added "haha yes just friends."

Jade appears to be tight with the entire family. She is also friends with Patrick's older sister Katherine Schwarzenegger and messages her on Twitter.

Iovine is actively involved in the Young Woman's Conference at Brentwood School, which she attends with Patrick, and whose honorary chair is Maria Shriver.

She later wrote about the event for The Huffington Post and talked about how she was bullied growing up. Seems like a nice girl, doesn't she?

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PST: Some think Dempsey EPL's most valuable player

High-flying U.S. international Clint Dempsey finished fourth last week in the Professional Football Writers Association player of the year voting.

I (along with everyone else, probably) assumed voting members filled out a ballot ranking a bunch of choices or wrote in their top three or five?? then proceeded to their?favorite corner pub to discuss it.

But on Soccer Today yesterday (disclosure: a radio show / podcast that I co-host along with Marc Stein), Oliver Kay cleared up how the process goes. And what he told us makes Dempsey?s accomplishment in finishing fourth that much more impressive.

Kay, the Chief Football Correspondent for The Times, said voting members submit one name. That?s it. They vote for their choice of Player of the Year in England.

One name.

Recall that Dempsey finished fourth behind Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney and Paul Scholes.

That means that some (undisclosed) number of voters felt Dempsey is having the best season of them all. And never mind that some other wonderful players, like Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart, are having terrific seasons of their own.

Yesterday?s show also includes Steven McManaman, the longtime Liverpool and Real Madrid man now with ESPN. Kay and McManaman had thoughts on Barcelona?s week and on Massive Monday, the huge Manchester City-Manchester United contest.

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Web optimization Corporations that provide a 100% guarantee of becoming #1 in the rankings is lying. Youll find lots of variables to take into account in regards to internet marketing as well as the most effective any Seo company can perform is pull the rankings better.

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Researchers make an RGB laser with a regular laser and quantum dots

The problem with lasers is, they tend to generate just a single color or light.To get more than one hue requires actually combining more than one type of laser to produce red, green and blue. But researchers at Brown University have figured out a solution to creating small RGB lasers by using colloidal quantum dots, or CQDs. The idea of leveraging the properties of the thin film isn't new, but past attempts to use CQDs in semiconductor lasers have failed because the necessary energy tends to wind up as heat instead of light. The work around scientists found was to excite the various dot sizes with a laser then filter out original light source. Unfortunately, the solution is far from practical for use in commercial products, but it does represent a milestone in the march towards a single-material multi-wavelength laser. For more details check out the source link.

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