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Qbox was invited by Kevin Werback of the Wharton School to Supernova 2008 to be one of the early-stage startups to attend the event for free and also demo our product during the networking reception.  It was a great opportunity for us to meet potential partners, users and investors.

Attending the conference from Qbox were Mickey and Bernard, both network partners of Qbox living in the Silicon Valley area.  We have no real headquarters, and our people are literally located around the world even though we are a small early-stage venture.  As a “network company,” we make the most use of web-based collaborative tools to work on projects across great distances.

Here’s a shot of Mickey eagerly pitching Qbox to one of the attendees.  With some people, their energy and enthusiasm are just contagious, and Mickey is one of those guys.

Anyway, below are some key takeaways from the conference (from our perspective):

People generally really liked the ability to play tracks continuously from multiple social networks (and, of course, across different MySpace musician pages).

There was a lot of interest in our Emotional Link algorithm, the proprietary music recommendation engine.

In terms of the “wow!” factor, our Link-2-Music feature, which enables users to stream music from Google music search results and Wikipedia entries, won hands down.  We will be releasing this feature officially later this summer.

Posted by Peter K