GNN'S second annual "Best of the Net" awards celebrate the rich diversity and character of the global Internet community; twenty awards presented in gala event and Esther Dyson chosen as Netizen of the Year

Business Wire, Nov 4, 1995

Personal Finance

Amateur: Webfoot's Used Car Lot http://www.webfoot.com/lots/international.car.lot.html

Founded by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, this site is a terrific free resource for buyers and sellers of automobiles, boats, motorcycles, bicycles and aircraft. Sellers can place free classifieds while buyers can browse listings for every state and province in North America.

Professional: NETworth http://networth.galt.com/

NETworth is a commercially-sponsored investment information service presented by GALT Technologies. Visitors to NETworth will find 15-minute delayed stock quotes, mutual fund data, fund ratings from Morningstar and links to a host of other investment sites on the Web.

Sports

Amateur: Home of the Lady Vols http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/ladyvols/

Thalia Hooker created this Web home for one of the nation's best women's basketball programs last season. It contains all the information a fan could want in addition to Netizen coverage of the women's NCAA basketball tournament.

Professional: GolfWeb http://www.golfweb.com

This comprehensive and well-crafted site features an extensive "Library," a list of "Places to Stay," a "ProShop," and "Tour Action" sections. Within these are a surprising number of articles and reviews on equipment, antiquities, courses, schools, tournaments and much more.

Travel

Amateur: Foreign Languages for Travelers http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/-mmartin/languages/languages.html

This superb site helps travelers learn a few phrases before departing on their next trip abroad. The language list is expanding and currently features German, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Russian and Portuguese.

Professional: Lonely Planet http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/

The lonely planet site is home to a major travel guide publisher of the same name. It offers in-depth information from the company's popular series of books, its own online newsletter, health tips for travelers, and a bulletin board for visitors to the site.

Netizen of the Year/Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is editor of Release 1.0, a monthly software industry newsletter, and president of EDventure Holdings, a small but diversified company concentrating on emerging information technology worldwide with a particular focus on the emerging computer markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Dyson is presently active in industry affairs as a member of the U.S. National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIIAC) and as chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She sits on the board of the Global Business Network, a consulting organization, and on the advisory board of Perot Systems. She is a limited partner of the Mayfield Software Fund as well.

In addition to her involvement with the NIIAC and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Dyson sits on the boards and executive committees of the Santa Fe Institute and the Institute of East West Studies.

Dyson is also a founding member of the Russian Software Market Association and a member of the (U.S.) Software Publishers Association. She also serves on the advisory boards for the Software Entrepreneurs Forum (Silicon Valley) and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.