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Best of Show Spring 2001 Awards
Here are the winners of Best of Show
Awards for Internet World Spring 2001, held in Los
Angeles. All winners were chosen by the editors of
Internet World magazine.
Business Application:
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World's Tom Kuczynski, Tony Rizzo, and Phil
Ripperger flank Business Application winner
CheckFree |
Winner:
CheckFree, WebPay
3.2
Booth: 746
Taking online bill
payment and presentment to a new level of convenience
and simplicity, CheckFree has released WebPay 3.2, which
will enable consumers to receive bills and make
payments via e-mail. This new product also has a useful
feature that will enable p2p transactions among
individual consumers.
Finalists:
BayTSP,
BaySpiderTM
Booth: 6761
GoShip, GoShip Suite
of Services
Booth: 6752
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World's Tom Kuczynski, Tony Rizzo, and Phil
Ripperger flank Rehan Ahmed [second from left] and
Suzzane Slay of Super Technologies Inc., Best of
Show winner for client devices.
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Client Devices:
Winner:
Super
Technologies Inc., Virtual Phone Line
V1
Booth: 613
Internet-powered
telephone gateway that allows users to place
international calls, for very low long-distance charges.
You can either call people overseas, or they can call
you.
Client Software:
Winner:
E-Book
Systems, Inc., FlipBrowser Gold
Booth:
1772
E-Book Systems Inc.'s FlipBrowser Gold, Book
motif where users can actually see the pages flipping
over. Has all kinds of applications, such as photo
albums and catalogs.
Finalists:
2ce, Inc.,
CubicEye
Booth: 712 Launch Pad
PrinterOn
Corporation, PrintWhere 1.0
Booth:
5032
Commerce:
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World's Tom Kuczynski, Tony Rizzo, and Phil
Ripperger flank Commerce winner Cycle 23, Inc.
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Winner:
Cycle 23,
Inc., Store Explorer v1.0
Booth: 7061/7063
eCRM & 4756 Launch Pad
This new product from
Cycle23 promises to make the online shopping experience
simpler and more intuitive for consumers. Store Explorer
enhances the functionality of b2c sites, making it
easier for merchants to display products and connect
with shoppers.
Finalists:
Hong Kong
Trade Development Council,
tdctrade.com
Booth: 1160
Xporta Inc., Xporta
Global TradeWare (Release 2.0)
Booth: 6834
Design:
Winner:
Balthaser
Online, Balthaser:Fx
Booth:
1467
Balthaser Online's Balthaser:Fx, is a unique
Web-based service built to help beginning users and Web
developers create content in Macromedia's Flash format.
Balthaser:Fx's simple authoring application is itself
based on Flash, so all a user needs to get started is a
common Web browser equipped with the standard Macromedia
Flash player.
Finalists:
Eyematic,
eyePublish
Booth: 452
Imation Corp.,
VerifiTM Accurate Web
Color
Booth: 966
Communication and
Collaboration:
Winner:
Eyeball
Networks, Eyeball Chat Server v1.0
Booth:
330
Eyeball Networks's Eyeball Chat Server,
video-conferencing solution for users to communicate
with each other through voice and text. Can be used for
distance learning, customer service, interpersonal
contact.
Finalists:
iMarkup
Solutions, Inc., iMarkup Workgroup
Server
Booth: 704 Launch Pad
Cardiff Software,
Inc., LiquidForms
Booth: 1500
Entertainment:
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World's Tom Kuczynski, Tony Rizzo, and Phil
Ripperger flank Dynamic Digital Depth Inc., which
received the Best of Show award for its OpticBOOM
3D Plug-in V1.2 |
Winner:
Dynamic Digital
Depth Inc., OpticBOOM 3D Plug-in
V1.2
Booth: 1571
Dynamic Digital Depth
OpticBOOM 3D Plug-in V1.2, a 3D client that allows the
user to view content in 2D or 3D. Very good quality
images; feels like you can reach out and grab the
images.
Finalist:
GameHouse,
Inc., GameHouse Game Suite, including Casino,
Sports, and Board games.
Booth: 6047
Infrastructure:
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World's Tom Kuczynski, Tony Rizzo, and Phil
Ripperger flank Infrastructure winner F5
Networks |
Winner:
F5
Networks, iControl SDK v1.0
Booth: 1024
Microsoft Pavilion
In a world that increasingly
relies on coordination and control of disparately
architected, globally distributed systems, F5 Networks'
Internet Control Architecture stands out. iControl takes
advantage of F5 hardware like the Big-IP local area load
balancer, its 3-DNS wide area balancer, and Global Site
Content Controller; but it can also identify and
integrate sites that use other vendors' hardware. CDN
peering, orderly site maintenance, intelligent load
balancing across a global network, all based on XML,
SOAP, and CORBA access to Microsoft Application Server
2000, BEA WebLogic, and other leading platforms make
iControl a leading-edge winner.
Finalists:
Akamai
Technologies, Inc., Akamai
EdgeSuite
Booth: 812
Entrust Technologies,
Inc., Entrust/TruePassTM, version 1.0
Booth:
2552 Launch Pad
Marketing and Customer
Service:
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World's Tom Kuczynski, Tony Rizzo, and Phil
Ripperger flank Marketing and Customer Service
winner Kiwilogic.com, Inc.
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Winner:
Kiwilogic.com,
Inc., Lingubot Creator 1.5
Booth:
6764
The judges were impressed with this natural
language customer support agent. Particularly strong is
the ability for companies to add an avatar character to
their sites without needing advanced programming
knowledge.
Finalists:
Enginehouse
Media, AdOctane 3.0
Booth: 4765 Launch
Pad
Talisma Corp.,
Talisma eCRM Suite
Booth: Internet World #1580
and eCRM Expo #7332
Web Application Tools and
Servers:
Winner:
Macromedia,
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
Booth: 1346
This
is really the second major release of UltraDev, which
adds Web application server scripting and database
application programming capabilities to Dreamweaver,
Macromedia's popular visual design environment.
Macromedia provided some great user references who we
were able to contact prior to the show, and they backed
up the company's claims of major improvements in this
version. "A Web site that normally would have taken
weeks to do, I was able to do in 8 hours," one user
said. The judges were also impressed by the overall
richness of the Dreamweaver environment and the ease
with which designers and developers can switch between
code editing and visual site building.
Finalists:
Digital
Creations, Zope 2.3.1
Booth: 560
Mondosoft,
Mondosearch 4.1
Booth: 237 | 
