An early investor in Google, Ebert took his work to the Internet much sooner than many of his traditional-media counterparts, scoring a WebbyAward along the way.
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It won a WebbyAward in 2011.
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On Tuesday, he received a WebbyAward for it and delivered his five-word acceptance speech (that's all the Webbys allow) by flashing a GIF on the big screens at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
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