Reno, NV (April 21, 2008)—The 12th Annual Webby Awards, today nominated Bytware’s i5virus for the Best Sound Design of 2008. i5virus is the popular System i espionage YouTube video and game campaign that launched at Columbus COMMON in October of last year.
Winners will be announced on May 6, 2008 and honored at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 9th. Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile Websites. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “Simpson’s” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.
“The Webby Awards honors the outstanding Websites that are setting the standards for the Internet,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. “i5virus’s Webby Award nomination is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators.”
“We have been overwhelmed by the positive response to our i5virus campaign that we have received from the System i user community and media,” said Christopher Jones, Marketing Director for Bytware. “We set out to do something fun, something different, and something that would at the same time raise awareness about issues that we felt were very important to System i users. We would like to thank everyone in the community for their great response to and support of i5virus.”
From now through May 1st, online fans around the world can cast their own votes for i5virus in The Webby People’s Voice Awards presented by Nokia at http://pv.webbyawards.com.
The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states.
Founded in 1996, The Webby Awards are known worldwide for its famous five-word speech limit. Past headline-grabbing speechmakers include Al Gore (“Please don’t recount this vote”), Beastie Boys (“Can anyone fix my computer?”), and Prince (“Everything you think is true.”)
About i5virus
i5virus was an educational campaign designed to raise awareness of issues pertaining to the use of PHP technology on IBM System i servers. Consisting of two parts — a launch video distributed via YouTube and a game site — i5virus was officially launched at the autumn IBM COMMON User Conference in October 2007.
i5virus put players on the trail of a Chinese cybercrime syndicate that attacked a U.S. financial institution and facilitated massive identity theft by exploiting PHP on System i. Starting with the YouTube video (a Webby Nominee for Best Sound Design) was shot on location in Tokyo and takes players along on the chase for evidence, which leads them to the game site. Players then work their way through the case using a System i-style green screen computer interface and interacting with the investigator’s desktop, learning more about PHP security along the way.
About The Webby Awards
Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites. Established in 1996, the 12th Annual Webby Awards received a record 9,500 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Adobe; The Creative Group; .ORG; The Barbarian Group; Level3; Adweek; Fortune; Variety; Wired; IDG: Brightcove; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail and Museum of the Moving Image
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