Musigy - When Imagine Cup project becomes consumer Internet product
I just received an email from Stan Vonog, a founder of Musigy – a company that was formed after its founders participated in Innovation Accelerator 2006. Stan and his team from Russia won the Imagine Cup 2005 in Japan with a p2p technology (http://spectrum.ieee.org/jul07/5297) for transmitting live audio and video streams in real time, with high quality and very low delays – so that musicians in different countries can play together over the Internet!
Musigy enabled the world's first distributed jazz festival – Jazz at the Speed of Light (http://jsl.musigy.com ) where world's jazz stars in Russia (the Red Square), Ukraine (the Black Sea) and the UK (Oxford) played live across 3,000 miles.
The guys also made a major 2007 New Year Internet concert on Russian National TV (http://blog.musigy.com/archive/2007/02/18/musigy-unites-georgia-and-russia-on-channel-russia.aspx ) – the event was viewed by 50 million people!
Tomorrow Musigy is releasing a beta version of its first consumer Internet product, Musigy Maker. Give it a try. You can be among the first people in the world to make music without geographic boundaries! Sign up and download Musigy Maker beta at www.musigy.com/signup
The Imagine Cup 2007 finals have just finished last week in Seoul, Korea. The new winners are from Thailand, Korea and Jamaica. These three teams, plus Ireland, Mexico and Poland were awarded participation in the Innovation Accelerator – a two-week business incubation program designed by Microsoft and BT to transform Imagine Cup ideas into viable business realities.
Apparently Imagine Cup can bring not only the prize money, but also unlimited opportunities, fame and world domination:) Musigy guys were featured numerous times on TV (http://blog.musigy.com/archive/2007/06/22/musigy-on-nhk-in-japan.aspx) and even a glossy magazine for women (http://blog.musigy.com/archive/2007/05/04/musigy-in-gala-a-glossy-magazine-about-people-fashion-and-style-for-women.aspx)!!
So, go ahead and step up to competing in the Imagine Cup 2008, which will take place in the fabulous city of Paris!
