Anomopoly, Dirty Truckers Snatch Top Prizes in Band Battle; Thanks to All Our Sponsors

in the audience favorite vote was:

The Dirty Truckers — 30.8%
EneROCK–26.1%
Anomopoly—15.5%
Seymore Willie—13.8%
The Main Drag–13.7%

Seymore Willie; photo by Jason Walker, www.personalsnapper.comThere were quite a few photographers on hand to record last night’s proceedings, and we want to point you to two collections of shots that have already been posted on the Web. Jason Walker, who also happened to win one of our door prizes, has published more than 360 amazing shots at his site PersonalSnapper.com. And Kennieth Burwood of American Well has posted more than 200 very artful shots on his personal Picasa Web collection. Jason and Ken gave us permission to excerpt several of their photos here; click the thumbnails in this article to see larger versions with photo credits.

We can’t close this wrapup without thanking our fantastic event sponsors, who were led by Microsoft and Invest Northern Ireland, along with Bristol Studios and Nimbit, which put up the two great band prizes.

EneROCK; photo by Kennieth Burwood, picasaweb.google.com/kburwoodJoining them as event sponsors were Aerva, the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, iRobot, KMC Partners Public Relations, MITX (the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange), and Nextcat.com.

We had a cadre of super door prizes as well: Microsoft donated two Zunes, iRobot dusted things off with two Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, and Harmonix Music contributed three Rock Band 2 bundles.

Finally, we had an incredible group of Event Supporters, who bought ticket blocks: American Well, The Computer Café, EnerNOC, General Catalyst Partners, IDEO, LaunchCapital, Nano-C, Pegasystems, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/