Brulant Named Finalist in Multiple Categories at NEOSA Best of Tech Awards

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) May 21, 2007

Brulant, Inc., one of the leading ecommerce and online business partners in the nation, today announced that it has received nominations from the Northeast Ohio Software Association in both the Brain Gain Company of the Year category and it's Search Marketing arm, eMergent Marketing, has been nominated for the Best SEM/SEO Company category at this year's NEOSA (Northeast Ohio Software Association) Best of Tech Awards.

The winners will be announced at a banquet to be held on Tuesday, May 22, at Corporate College East in Warrensville Heights, Oh.

Paul Elliott, principal at Brulant and former owner of Brulant's Search Marketing Solution, eMergent Marketing, notes, "NEOSA has been integral in the growth and development of the tech industry in Northeastern Ohio for the last nine years, and their recognition of Brulant's expertise in SEO/SEM and ability to attract the best and brightest talent in the region is quite an honor."

About Brulant, Inc.

Brulant is one of the nation's preeminent online solutions experts, fusing leading-edge technology with breakthrough interactive services including internet marketing and creative design. The company was recently ranked by Advertising Age Magazine as the 30th largest interactive firm in the country. Ultimately, Brulant is focused on delivering multi-channel solutions that increase client's marketshare by improving customer service, brand loyalty and market reach while reducing customer acquisition, retention and conversion costs.

Brulant, a leading website design company, is a true multi-channel integration partner focused on ensuring one compelling customer experience across all channels, from web initiatives to call centers, stores, kiosks, etc. Brulant celebrates a proven track record throughout its core competencies, including interactive marketing and strategy, creative website design and usability, technology services, portal and web development, and business intelligence. For more information, visit http://www.brulant.com.

Brulant's clients are middle-market to Fortune 2000 companies within the consumer products, financial services, healthcare and retail sectors. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the company works with clients on a national basis including: Bass Pro Shops, Borders, Carhartt, Charter One Bank, Citizens Bank, The Cleveland Clinic, Hallmark, ICI Paints, JoAnn Stores, Key Bank, Luxottica, MTD Products, Macrovision, National City Bank, Nationwide, Pearle Vision, Sears Portrait Studios, Steris, Things Remembered and University Hospitals.

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Punchbowl awarded ?Best Consumer Tech that Makes Life Easier? at the 2011 MITX Innovation Awards

Framingham, MA (PRWEB) June 22, 2011

Punchbowl, the one-stop site for start to finish party planning, has been selected winner in the category of ?Best Consumer Tech that Makes Life Easier? at the 2011 MITX Innovation Awards.

The annual MITX Innovation Awards program is the largest awards competition of its kind and celebrates innovations powering the future of marketing and revolutionizing the way we work and play. The MITX Award winners were announced in 11 general categories, several ?Best of? categories, the PricewaterhouseCoopers Promise Award, People?s Choice Awards for VC and Angel Investor of the Year. The sold-out ceremony was held on June 16th at the Westin Boston Waterfront.

?We created the Innovation Awards to give exciting digital and Internet companies a chance to showcase their ideas and creativity,? said MITX President Debi Kleiman. ?This year?s winners represent the very best of New England?s talent, and MITX is thrilled to honor their achievements.?

Punchbowl is the leading destination site for start to finish party planning. The site offers a modern, effortless way to plan a party with innovative features that include customizable online invitations, potluck organization, gift registries, local vendor search and much more. Punchbowl guides a host through all of the steps of party planning and solves common problems along the way. The site is extremely popular with moms and is ideal for summer gatherings, birthday parties, baby showers, holiday parties, and more.

?To be honored as the ?Best Consumer Tech that Makes Life Easier? is wonderful validation of what our customers have been telling us all along,? said Matt Douglas, Founder & CEO, Punchbowl. ?Innovation is at the heart of what we do at Punchbowl every day.?

Judges for the MITX Awards included over 100 industry professionals representing various disciplines including creative directors, designers, technologists, online media representatives, investors, and business professionals. The 2011 Innovation Awards were sponsored by Digitas, Isobar, DLA Piper, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Atom Group, BostInnovation, ISITE Design, Metropolis Creative, TCN, and VentureFizz.

Sign up for free Punchbowl account at http://www.punchbowl.com

About Punchbowl Software Inc.

Punchbowl Software is the company behind the critically acclaimed website Punchbowl.com. Punchbowl is the one-stop site that helps smart moms and savvy professionals plan a party from start to finish. The site offers a modern, effortless way to plan an unforgettable celebration with party planning features including customizable online invitations, potluck organization, gift registries, local party vendors and much more. Punchbowl also licenses its technology to leading retailers such as Oriental Trading Company and 1-800-FLOWERS. Founded by software and user interface experts Matt Douglas and Sean Conta, the company is located in Framingham, MA and is backed by Contour Venture Partners and Intel Capital. To learn more, visit http://www.punchbowl.com/corporate

About MITX

Established in 1996, MITX -- the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange -- is the leading industry organization focused on the web and mobile, bringing together the digital marketing, media and technology community to engage in what?s next and how it will impact the marketing and business worlds. Connecting more than 7,500 professionals in New England, MITX is a dynamic community of thought leaders and collaborators in search of insight, education and opportunity. Creator of FutureM, MITX is located in Cambridge, MA. For more information, visit http://www.mitx.org/.

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The Strand Magazine Announces Nominees for the 2008 Critics Awards for Best Mystery Novel and Best First Mystery Novel

Detroit, MI (PRWEB) March 25, 2009

The Strand Magazine has announced its nominees for the 2008 Strand Magazine Critics Awards. Recognizing excellence in the field of mystery fiction, the Critics Awards are judged by a select group of book reviewers from the nation's top daily newspapers. Otto Penzler served as the award chair for best novel and Andrew Gulli served as the award chair for best first novel. This year's judges include Dennis Drabelle of The Washington Post, David Ulin of the LA Times, Lev Grossman of Time Magazine, Carol Memmott of USA Today, Maureen Corrigan of NPR, and Bruce DeSilva of the Associated Press.

Best Novel:

When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown and Company)

Master of the Delta by Thomas H. Cook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)

Lush Life by Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Hollywood Crows by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown and Company)

Best First Novel:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

City of the Sun by David Levien (Doubleday)

A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock (Doubleday)

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central Publishing)

A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley (Harper)

"All judges sent to me, as committee chairman, a list of their 10 favorite books. I made a list that included all of these books--and a disparate selection it was--and the five with the most votes were to be the finalists," said Otto Penzler, the world famous publisher and proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop. "As it happened, there were three books that made it onto the short list, with five others tied for fourth, so we had a runoff with an extra round of voting to determine the top five nominees. Judges were then asked to list these top five in order of preference, with a first-place vote awarded five points, a second-place vote four points, and so on."

"I couldn't have been more pleased with this selection of nominees," said Andrew F. Gulli, the managing editor of The Strand. "When I read several of these books last year, I had a feeling they would be nominated for the Critics Award."

Awards will be presented in the categories of Best Novel and Best First Novel at an invitation-only cocktail party, hosted by The Strand on July 8, 2009, in New York City. A lifetime achievement award will be given posthumously to English author John Mortimer.

For more information, please contact Christine Jones at 248 569 3702 or cjones (at) strandmag (dot) com.

P.O. BOX 1418

Birmingham, Michigan

48012-1418

Phone: 1 800 300 6652 (US)

Fax: 248 874 1046

http://www.strandmag.com

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DVDFab Blu-ray to DVD Converter -- The World?s Best Software for Converting Blu-ray to DVD Format

(PRWEB) November 16, 2010

Fengtao Software, a dedicated and professional multimedia software provider, has released the actual Blu-ray to DVD converting software in the world on Nov. 11, 2010, DVDFab Blu-ray to DVD Converter, which can convert Blu-ray to DVD-Video disc and allows you to watch Blu-ray movie with DVD player, or some player software. This will quite possibly mark a turning point for Blu-ray entertainment.

We all know that Blu-ray Disc competed with HD DVD format during the high definition optical disc format war, and finally win the war as Toshiba, the main company that supported HD DVD, conceded in February 2008, releasing their own Blu-ray disc player in late 2009. Blu-ray is currently supported by about 200 of the world?s leading consumer electronics, personal computer, recording media, video game and music companies. The format also has support from all Hollywood studios and countless smaller studios as a successor to today?s DVD format. More and more people are turning to use Blu-ray for the perfect audiovisual enjoyment it brings to users.

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Contest to Build a Cool, Safe Snowboard Uncovers Four Innovative Designs -- Now, Which One Is Best?

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) July 15, 2011

A $ 20,000 quest to build a binding that will free a snowboarder upended into deep powder has produced four exciting, lightweight and inexpensive designs that promote snowboarding safety without diminishing snowboarding fun.

The winning design will be selected July 31 after the public, snowboarders and inventors have had a chance to view and critique all of the entries at the challenge?s Facebook page.

Creators of the Chris Zider Snowboard Design Challenge include family members of a snowboarder who was killed in a 1992 spill. They hope to call the industry?s attention to these efforts to make a fun sport less likely to be a fatal one.

?We're trying to save some lives, and hoping snowboarding companies and manufacturers will pick up on these ideas and help the inventors commercialize them,? said Bob Zider, whose son, Chris, fell into a tree well and suffocated. ?We need input from engineers and boarders. The key criteria are technically solid design, and a device young, deep-powder boarders would buy (at less than $ 100).?

Here are the four entries deemed by judges to meet the technical criteria while also infusing snowboarding safety with some degree of cool:

????Scott Nisbet, inspired by CarShield technology that assesses when a car has been in an accident, used sensors for his device. It doesn?t require any change in boots or bindings, and recognizes when the boarder is upside down or in danger, sending a signal to automatically unlock the boot from the board.
????Brad Brinson, a Santa Cruz snowboarder motivated by his own tree well scare, created a ?pyro mechanism? device that, simply put, explodes to break the connection between boot and binding. The boarder activates the device with a remote, carried in a pocket or on a belt.
????Thomas Trudel, a propulsion hardware engineer and action sports enthusiast who lives in Santa Cruz, looked complaints about current safety devices in the eye. His answer: a standard looking strap that contains a hydraulic timer that releases the board when the boarder is upside down for 30 to 60 seconds (time depending on the boarder?s setting). Trudel?s technology allows for hassle-free snow removal.
????Adam Weisberg, a snowboarding enthusiast from Corvallis, Oregon, looked at skis for his inspiration for a hands-free in-and-out connection for snowboarder and board. Weisberg?s foot-activated release operates with a lever the boarder self-activates to unlock his front foot by using his back foot.

Bob Zider, himself an inventor of medical devices and golf equipment who is credited as the mind behind Flexon, is pleased with the creativity and diversity of the designs. ?Unlike with skis, snowboard bindings are typically fixed to the board rigidly, and releasing from them requires being able to bend down and release the buckles.

?There have been many efforts to introduce releasable bindings to the industry, but all have failed to receive acceptance, and other than using a lanyard, none to our knowledge has been able to address the tree well problem of nothing being able to reach the boots to release, or provide added time for rescue of an unconscious boarder.?

Detailed specs and drawings for all four designs, as well as those of the three runners-up, are online at http://chrisziderscholarship.org/design-challenge/ through July 31. The winning designer will receive $ 10,000; second-place prize is $ 6,000 and third-place prize is $ 4,000. For more information or to arrange interviews with the contestants or sponsors, please email Susan Fornoff.

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