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Ingenio Co-Founders Scott Faber and Sean Van der Linden Named Contenders for 2005 World Technology AwardNEW YORK, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Technology Network (WTN) announced today that Scott Faber and Sean Van der Linden, co-founders of Ingenio, Inc., the company who pioneered Pay Per Call(R) advertising, have been named members of the prestigious WTN organization, and deemed two of the most innovative individuals in the world of Marketing Communications Technology. The list of 100 luminaries is compiled every year by WTN members who vote on individuals who are doing the most innovative work in their field. The WTN is a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank, and an elite club focused on the business and science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types (from biotechnology to new materials; from IT to new energy sources) into reality. The World Technology Awards Gala ceremony, held in association with TIME magazine, CNN and Science magazine among others, will take place on November 15th, 2005, at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, California. The Gala will conclude the two-day World Technology Summit. "We are truly honoured to have our founders recognized by such a prestigious group of technology luminaries," said Mark Britto, chief executive officer, Ingenio. "Today's nomination and the appointment of Scott Faber and Sean Van der Linden as WTN Fellows further cements Ingenio's role as an Internet technology innovator and industry pioneer." Nominees for the 2005 World Technology Awards are identified based on an intensive, global process over a period of many months. Nominating members are primarily elected WTN Fellows from previous awards cycles, number more than 800, and are spread out over 60 countries. James P. Clark, founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network, added, "The World Technology Awards program is not only a very inspiring way to identify and honor the most innovative people and organizations in the technology world, but it also is a truly disciplined way for the WTN membership to identify those who will formally join them, as WTN Fellows, as part of our global community. By working to make useful connections among our members, we look forward to assisting Ingenio in continuing to help create our collective future and change our world." A small selection of those WTN members in the 20 different award categories who nominated/judged/voted this year includes: * Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium * Niklas Zennstrom, CEO & Founder, Skype * Gordon Moore, Co-founder, Intel * Bert Keely, Architect, Tablet PC, Microsoft * Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School, Author "The Future Of Ideas" * Dan Gillmor, Author, "We the Media; Grassroots Journalism By the People, for the People," Former Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News * Fred Von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation * Richard Dasher, Executive Director, US-ASIA Technology Management Center, Stanford University * Peter Singer, IRA W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University * Daniel Goldin, Chairman, The Intellisis Corporation; Former Administrator, NASA For more information on the World Technology Network, World Technology Awards and World Technology Summit, please visit this website: http://www.wtn.net/ About World Technology Network The World Technology Network is a New York-headquartered organization that was created to "encourage serendipity" -- happy accidents -- amongst those individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative in the science and technology world. The WTN's areas of interest range from IT and communications to biotech, energy, materials, space, as well as related fields such as finance, marketing, policy, law, design, and ethics. Each year, WTN members are brought together through an ongoing global series of regional roundtables, global Summits, and other events. In 2004, the WTN also convened the World Energy Technologies Summit at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The WTN also publishes "WTN Update," a monthly collection of news items covering the innovative work of the WTN membership. The central events in the WTN calendar include the annual World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards -- the culmination of a global judging program through which new members are nominated and selected and by which the network grows and is refreshed. About Ingenio, Inc. Founded in 1999, Ingenio, Inc. is an Internet company enabling buyers and sellers of services and information to connect and transact by seamlessly integrating today's two most powerful communications vehicles -- the Internet and the telephone. The company's patented technology powers the Pay Per Call(R) Advertising Platform and Network, the only complete paid search advertising system that generates targeted incoming phone leads instead of website clicks, and its Live!Advice(TM) Directories offering, which facilitates real-time transactions between buyers and sellers of advice and information. Ingenio's solutions are utilized by top-tier organizations in both America and Europe, including AOL, Microsoft, SBC SMARTpages.com, MIVA, Inc. and the IRS. Headquartered in San Francisco, Ingenio has connected more than 2 million buyers and sellers through its web and telephony platform, and today produces 20 million e-commerce minutes each quarter. Please visit http://www.ingenio.com/ for more information. Media Contact for Ingenio: Valerie Garing Combs 415-248-4029 [email protected] Media Contact for WTN: Angela Costa Edelman 650-429-2765 [email protected] Ingenio, Inc. CONTACT: Valerie Garing Combs of Ingenio, +1-415-248-4029, [email protected]; or Angela Costa of Edelman, +1-650-429-2765, [email protected], for WTN Web site: http://www.ingenio.com/ |