This year’s Webby Awards were handed out on Monday, with festivities at New York’s Cipriani, a brief performance by Prince and five-word thank-yous from the honorees. The big success of the night, from any perspective, was Google: Google Earth earned both the industry mandate and the People’s Voice award in the Best Visual Design-Function and Broadband categories, and Google Maps took home both honors in the Services category, and the People’s Voice for Best Practices. (Today the Webbys, tomorrow the world!) The Webbys for Tourism went to New Zealand Travel, for their capable version of what’s admittedly an easy job (raise your hand if you don’t want to go to New Zealand), and to Earth Cam’s worldwide webcam consolidator. In the Travel field Expedia and Trip Advisor earned the accolades. Trip Advisor’s five-word acceptance speech nicely sums up the Web 2.0-ness of the evening, which also saw wins by Flickr and Myspace: “Real reviews beat marketing fluff.” Cheers to all the winners.