We’re live streaming everything these days. TV shows, Presidential debates, speaking events, and concerts.
But, have you ever watched a concert online? Or have you ever seen musicians try to play together online? The experience is sub-par at best. The audio and video are often not synced, and the whole point of going to see live music – the live, raw experience, is really lost in blurry, low quality video and audio streams.
We can do better. And Chattanooga did this weekend.
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Could Gig City soon become Geek City?
Chattanooga — also known as Gig City — recently announced Geek Move, an incentive that doubles as an emigrant program for the technologically savvy. It is meant to help one of Tennessee’s largest and most economically diverse cities flourish into even more of a tech haven.
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When you think of tech hubs, Chattanooga doesn’t usually come to mind. But the historic Tennessee town of 150,000 is looking to lure some techies with a new relocation program that will offer $10,000 in incentives for those eligible geeks who make the leap…
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Chattanoogans may have as many as 12 new uses for the city’s world-class Internet speeds by the end of the weekend.
Today, 80 computer pros from across the nation descend on Chattanooga for “Hackanooga,” a 48-hour marathon programming weekend that challenges participants to create killer apps for taking advantage of Chattanooga’s gigabit-per-second Internet speed.
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With access to ultra high-speed Internet, startup capital and free lodging for more than three months, what types of applications or tech ideas could be created? Chattanooga, Tenn., wanted to find out.
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Three members from the BigBlueButton project — Fred Dixon, Ryan Seys, and Calvin Walton — are traveling to Chattanooga, Tennessee to participate in Hackanooga, a hack fest sponsored by Mozilla (and others) to create applications that leverage the power of Chattanooga’s Gigabit network.
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In the next step in the quest to develop innovative uses for Chattanooga’s high-speed Internet, local and national leaders have invited computer whizzes from across the country to the Gig City for a 48-hour hack-a-thon called Hackanooga.
“This particular event is for people that have hardcore tech development and coding skills,” J. Ed. Marston, vice president of marketing and communication for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, said. “Certainly we will be communicating with the broader public, but the people that are going to participate need to have those technical skills.”
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Last week’s Gig Tank Demo Day in Chattanooga highlighted two results US Ignite seeks to achieve: engaged communities and killer apps that take advantage of next-generation networking to improve people’s lives.
What can you do with a ubiquitous metropolitan gigabit Ethernet connection? Google has recently gotten lots of attention with the metro fiber network that it is beginning to build in Kansas City. Welcome to Chattanooga, Tenn. The city has laid its fiber network just about everywhere, and is beginning to reap the rewards of ultra-fast Internet service. What lessons can Google and others learn from the experience?
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Ever wonder what you can do with a gigabit internet connection? A competition involving teams using Chattanooga, Tenn.’s gigabit network set out to win fame and cash with their efforts, which also showed off real-world applications of extremely fast networks.
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Only one American city offers one-gigabit internet connections to every resident, and it is not tech-savvy San Francisco or university-laden Boston, but Chattanooga, Tennessee’s fourth-largest city, nestled in the Appalachian foothills.
Kansas City, Missouri isn’t the only place in America where you’ll find gigabit Internet service.
Several young startups took to the stage in Chattanooga, Tenn., yesterday to explain how they’re using the city’s gigabit Internet infrastructure to help them create what they hope will be the next Google, Facebook or Twitter.
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Today, Banyan was awarded the top $100,000 prize at GigTank Demo Day, for the groundbreaking version control system that they presented to a panel of judges and 500-plus audience. The event marked the finale of the 14-week GigTank accelerator program, co-hosted by CO.LAB and Lamp Post Group in partnership with the Chattanooga Chamber and EPB, which built and manages America’s largest 1 gigabit per second Internet in Chattanooga.
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TJ Weigel may speed up the search for the cure for cancer.
And hasten discoveries in particle physics. Maybe even help solve the energy crisis faster.
After 100 days in Chattanooga working tirelessly in the city’s GigTank competition, his company came out on top and walked away Thursday night with a $100,000 prize.
“Some of these groups are so damn good,” he said moments after he was handed the oversized check. “Before they announced the winners I was shaking.”
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Hundreds of people converged upon the Read House Thursday to witness the Gig Tank’s Demo Day, and—as one contest participant put it— the event was a reflection of Chattanooga itself.
“They have done a good job of it being a big event but it still feeling relatively small,” said Anthony Guglielmo, who pitched his company, Vigia, Thursday morning. “That’s the feeling of Chattanooga all encompassed in the event. It’s big enough to get the job done, but not overwhelming.”
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Yesterday in Chattanooga, Banyan, Babel Sushi, and Iron Gamer captured $160,000 in prize money at the demo day that capped the city’s summer-long Gig Tank competition.
As I wrote earlier this week, Chattanooga is reaching out in multiple ways to make people aware of the possibilities its city-wide, fiber-based gigabit Internet access will enable. The Gig Tank program’s explicit goal was to encourage separate teams of entrepreneurs and students to think broadly and deeply about what kinds of applications gigabit-per-second connectivity makes possible.
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All summer Chattanooga has hosted a competition asking, “What if internet speed wasn’t an issue in developing a new business?”
Young entrepreneurs and students have been developing and testing their ideas and now we know whose won. Chattanooga is home to that new lightning fast, gigabit fiber optic network. But what do you do with it?
Two days ago, Channel 3 gave you a preview.
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One of the biggest things that’s struck me about the Gig Tank and Gig Tank’s demo day is how the entire city has come out to show their support. Last night we talked about how various businesses throughout downtown Chattanooga participated in the event by holding events.
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Entrepreneurship and startups are a hot bed of activity this month in the great state of Tennessee. As we reported earlier, there are three different accelerators graduating this month, all with their own demo day. Possibly because it’s the first of the three graduations, or possibly because they have a unique program, Chattanooga’s Gig Tank has attracted a lot of attention from the entire state.
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