Thai Students Win Imagine Cup 2007

Congratulations to Prachaya Phaisanwiphatpong, Vasan Chienmaneetaweesin, Jatupon Sukkasem, and Pathompol Saeng-Uraiporn from Thailand's Team 3KC Returns/Project LiveBook! , who celebrated their first-place finish in the worldwide Software Design Invitational, sponsored by Microsoft, and were awarded a $25,000 cash prize.

The Imagine Cup in its fifth year, and offers prizes to the best programmers competing in a variety of categories: Software Design, Embedded Development, Web Development, Project Hoshimi (a "programming battle"), IT Challenge, Algorithm, Photography, Short Film and Interface Design. A total of 344 students from 112 teams representing 59 countries and regions competed.

This post would be a heck of a lot more interesting if Microsoft or the student teams would have posted links to the winning technologies, either via Google or via Microsoft's dedicated page. so far, there's nothing. But I guess that's why we've placed this in the "Crazy Start-ups" category -- who knows what NDA agreements the winners signed?