Heading to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week? Make sure to check out the Launchpad event at the Summit, where Qik will be one of six presenting start-ups before a panel of expert judges. It's a huge honor to have been selected from all of the companies that applied, and Bhaskar has authorized me to disclose that he's very excited to show off Qik. :)

Bhaskar, Rishi and I hit the Web 2.0 Summit today for the Launchpad dress rehearsal - the Palace Hotel was absolutely buzzing. One of the hot topics was Microsoft's announcement today of their Bizspark program for young companies. It's a pretty cool global program which gives start-ups free access to Microsoft software. Microsoft is one of Qik's partners, as we have Qik running on Windows Mobile devices, and I managed to get MSFT SVP Dan'l Lewin to tell me, live on Qik, what Bizspark is all about: