1 U.S.entertainment company posted a quarterly profit above WallStreet’s forecasts after Tuesday’s closing bell. Disney’s results gave more support to views that theeconomy may be stabilizing and consumers may be regaining someconfidence (Editing by Jan Paschal) Stocks Global Markets. WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has received two Webbyawards for excellence on the Internet. NASA’s main Web site, http://, won the People’s Voice award for best government Website. The Cassini mission Web site, , received aWebby award for best science site.(Logo: http://)The People’s Voice award is the second for NASA’s Web site, which also won in2003.
More than 500,000 people cast votes this year.”We’re extremely happy to be honored by the Internet community this way,” saidBrian Dunbar, the content manager for http:// at NASA Headquartersin Washington. “We’ve always tried to focus the site on giving the public whatthey’re looking for in an engaging and compelling way. Combined with some ofthe highest customer-satisfaction ratings in the government, this award tellsus we’re on the right track.”Judges from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, whichsponsors the Webbys, selected the Cassini site for the top honor in thescience category.”The Cassini Web site is the door to the science and technology of the missionto Saturn, contained in hundreds of thousands of pages,” said Alice Wessen,manager of Cassini public engagement at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,Pasadena, Calif. “The site houses all the latest news, science findings andimages Cassini returns as it orbits Saturn. The public can see every picturewithin eight hours after it’s beamed down from the spacecraft.”NASA’s Web site, which received 120 million visits in 2008, offers the publicthe latest news, mission coverage and multimedia from the agency’s scientificresearch, technology development and exploration efforts.
Visitors can surfthousands of images from throughout the universe, watch live video from theInternational Space Station or read more than a dozen blogs written by agencyemployees.In the last year, the NASA Web team has expanded its presence into socialmedia, creating an official NASA channel on YouTube at http://, multiple Twitter feeds led by NASA,and mission pages on Facebook and MySpace. Since NASA astronaut Mike Massiminobegan twittering via Astro_Mike on April 3, he has gained more than 175,000followers. NASA was recognized in February with a Shorty award for its marsphoenix Twitter presence, which was written in the “voice” of thespacecraft. For a list of NASA missions providing updates on social media Websites, visit http://.
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