11 Days in Cannes and I'm exhausted! This is what Paris Hilton must feel like partying every night. But a great time was had by all and compred to what you normally see outside a bar at 4am the atmorephere was one of happiness.

2,757 entries in Cyber were submitted this year and as always a few good entries feel through the cracks and some not so special ones were chosen. There was also a slew of trends and themes from this years entries.

I'm going to give my round up that will go a little more in depth than my twitter feed did. I'm so glad to not have to Twitter anymore. It's one way to make any occasion a chore.

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The 2008 Cyber Lion winners have been announced. I'm going to do a bit of visualisation when I get back to graph the trends of entries as there were some real big trends that came out this year.

Webcam, crazy characters, blow into webcam, upload face (still going strong), PR and live events.

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It begins now. After a short flight from London, we (Ashley from Soap & Ashadi from RMG Connect) have arrived in Cannes, checked into our hotels and collected out our delegate passes. We're ready to start coverage of all things Cannes, but with a distinct digital skew! Aside from posting the work here, we'll also be live blogging the entire festival using some new & familiar tools. We've put all these tools into a commentary box, which you'll see floating on the site homepage shortly.

From here you'll get a peak into the going's on be it the work, awards, seminars, people and of course - parties. Paul will also be here from Tuesday as well and will no doubt be sporting some quality Bannerblog apparel as well. Assuming our delivery of T-Shirts ever turns up, we've got a few t-shirts to give out, and if you happen to be Rupert Murdoch or part of his entourage, we'll set one aside for you mate!

Got Photo's or Video's from the festival?
Post them to the Bannerblog Facebook page. We want to put faces to some of the work we've been posting over the past 3 years!

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I'll be twittering from Canees for News this year. Keep up to date with every detail here. More info and links to the other jury's Twitter accounts here.

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This is a great addition to Youtube. You can see advertisers scrambling to be the first to create something big with this. Right now it seems to be card tricks and this cup and ball demo that are filling up the most viewed videos.

Here's how to add your own annotations to a Youtube video.

It certainly opens up a new dimension to Youtube videos.

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This new site Picnic Wrestling for Picnic is great. Plays on the ugly theme quite well. Although I got up too early in the morning to find anyone online to play. The art direction is fantastic. And the voice acting is spot on.

I'm not sure on the agency behind this?

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The folks at Orange are at it again, launching a "Balloon Race" across the internet.
Users can create "balloon animals" and race across sites that sign up to be part of the course (as we have here at Banner Blog.) Entrants stand to win a range of prizes, and of course there's the requisite viral component with bonus points coming from getting the "support" of friends.

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Here's a digest of what's been sent to us recently.

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