Awards

pingVision wins five Horizon Interactive Awards

2008-05-06T11:34:06-05:00

For the second year now we've won multiple Horizon Interactive Awards for websites we've developed.

Among the winning sites are Popular Science (Gold in the Magazine & News category), RedBlueAmerica (Silver in the Blog category and Bronze in the Magazine & News category), and Spectrum Magazine (Bronze in the Public Service category).

Of course, we developed all of these sites using Drupal, which itself just won repeat honors in the CNET Webware 100 Awards for best publishing platform.

(Last year, we won a Horizon Interactive Gold Award for our development of the initial BlogHer website and a Bronze for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.)

The Horizon Interactive Awards Fact Sheet (pdf) provides some background:

The 2007 competition saw nearly 1000 entries from all over the world including nearly all 50 States and many other countries including: Australia, Canada, Chech Republic, Columbia, Croatia, Germany, Egypt, Spain, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, and Taiwan.

The Horizon Interactive Awards is a prestigious international competition recognizing outstanding achievement
among interactive media producers from all over the world.

HOW YOUR ENTRIES WERE JUDGED

Entries were judged by an international, volunteer panel of industry professionals with diverse backgrounds and various roles within the interactive media industry. Entries were also evaluated by a panel of end-users making the 2007 results a product of one of the most comprehensive and well-rounded processes of any interactive media competition. The 2007 Judges hailed from the United States, South Africa, Canada, Great Britain, and Turkey.

From the official press release, we also learn:

"The 2008 competition was the most competitive to date. The work in this year’s competition is at such a high level that the judges really had their work cut out for them," said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. "All of the winning entries displayed a high level of sophistication, aesthetic creativity, technical excellence and clear purpose."

It's always a great honor to win recognition for one's work. The great pleasure was in developing those sites for those clients. It's their success that remains our primary goal. The awards are gravy. We thank the Horizon Interactive Awards for this recognition.

Unboxing the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server

2008-03-31T13:59:40-05:00

At DrupalCon Boston 2008, we had the great pleasure of winning the grand prize as the Top Showcase Site, for PopSci.com. Because we were so busy making presentations and otherwise engaged in the incredible DrupalCon sessions, winning this was an unexpected surprise. The submissions were judged by Chris Bryant, Scott Mattoon (Sun Microsystems) and Fish McGill (Harmonix). Sun posted the ad hoc post-plenary interview here.

On Friday, we stole about 10 minutes from a very busy day to unbox the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server that was the prize. Wow!

The box was big....

...making the server inside seem all the smaller....

The actual unit is about half the depth of our existing internal dev server.

Simplicity on the outside ... but compact power on the inside.

It came with 8GB of RAM. One of the first things we'll be doing is bumping that up quite a bit. We aim to work this beautiful machine hard.

We'll be running Solaris on this so we can leverage all the potential power. We'll probably be posting about that sometime in the future.

Our deepest heartfelt thanks go out to Sun Microsystems for their generous contribution to DrupalCon Boston 2008!

Also: Matthew has more pics of the unboximg on flickr.

Horizon Awards

2007-08-15T11:40:39-05:00

Our Horizon Awards arrived yesterday. Each is about 5" in diameter and maybe 1.5" thick. Pretty cool!

pingVision wins design awards

2007-05-01T18:31:46-05:00

Today we received word that two of our designs were award winners in the Horizon Interactive Awards.

The BlogHer community website, which we developed over a year ago, is a Gold Winner in the 2007 Blog category.

BlogHer was developed on Drupal 4.6. (We launched just before 4.7 was ready.)

We developed the Stanford Center for Internet and Society site last fall, using Drupal 4.7. This site is a Bronze Winner in the 2007 Blog category.

The Horizon Interactive Awards press release states:

The 2007 competition saw nearly 1000 entries from 24 countries around world including: Australia, Canada, Chech Republic, Columbia, Croatia, Germany, Egypt, Spain, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and nearly all 50 of the United States. An international panel of judges, consisting of industry professionals with diverse backgrounds, evaluated 19 different categories ranging from online advertising to video games. The 2007 winning entries showcase the best developed interactive media solutions including web sites, CDs and DVDs, online ads, video and more.

“The 2007 competition was a fantastic display of creativity and effective communication blended with technical excellence,” said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. “Every year, it is amazing to see how designers and developers continue to innovate new and exciting ways for people to experience products, services, and ideas through interactive media.“...

...In its 6th year, the Horizon Interactive Awards was created to recognize excellence in interactive media production worldwide. Since 2001, the competition has received thousands of entries from 26 different countries and nearly all 50 US States. Each year, those entries are narrowed down to the best of the best to be recognized and promoted on and international stage for their excellence. For more information, visit http://www.horizoninteractiveawards.com.

We're delighted and honored to receive this recognition. Thank you, Horizon Interactive Awards!