Post and video by Miiko Mentz

Bubblicious Reporter Alison McNeill recently presented Bubby awards to five winners at Twiistup 5, which was held at Hangar:8 at the Santa Monica airport. On Friday, we posted our highlight reel of the Bubby Award winners and this week we’re posting one interview a day from each of the five winners.

Yesterday’s  interview was with Causecast, our “Favorite Do-Gooder” Bubby award winner. Today’s post features Viewdle, our ‘Favorite Showoff’ Bubby award winner.

Viewdle is a video platform that provides powerful facial recognition and audio content identification in Web videos for indexing, searching and monetizing video assets.

In our interview with Laurent Gill, president and COO of Viewdle, he shares how Viewdle’s video search technology works and how its able to recognize who is in a video and identify what’s being said within the video. To date, they have indexed more than 44,000 people in online videos with a high degree of accuracy. Viewdle can even find your mother, provided she’s in a Web video.

Watch our interview of Gill to learn more about Viewdle’s innovative digital media platform and how it all started with three guys in a room with a whiteboard in the Ukraine. The company is now based in Los Angeles with R&D in the Ukraine.

And come back tomorrow and watch our interview with Patricia Handschiegel, winner of “Kick Ass Female & Best Laugh” Bubby award.

Post by Alison McNeill and video by Miiko Mentz

The inaugural Bubby Award was presented to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton at Twiistup 3, so it seemed fitting that we give away more awards during our recent trip down to LA for Twiistup 5. Here are the winners this time around:

• Favorite Do-Gooder: Causecast

• Favorite Showoff: Viewdle

• Kick Ass Female & Best Laugh: Patricia Handschiegel

• Most Bubbly: Karen Hartline

• Favorite Fashionista Startup: Closet Couture

Twiistup went all out this time and was held at Hangar:8 at the Santa Monica airport, had Cuban Rollers at the entrance and our very own Brian Solis as a Showoff judge.

When handing out these Bubby Awards we were questioned about our criteria in choosing the winners and the truth is that there are none. So be prepared, at any time or any event, because you too may be presented with a Bubby!

For our pics of the event go here. Check out our interview with Mike Macadaan, Twiistup producer and VP of product and design at Tsavo Media, along with quick snapshots of each Bubby award winner. Every day next week we will be posting interviews of each Bubby award winner, so be sure to check back then to watch.