Microsoft is proud to announce that Cynergy Systems (www.cynergysystems.com) has taken the title at the Finale at South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas on Monday, March 10th. Presenting to a crowd of over 500, Cynergy presented 'Ben', a series of connected cross-platform applications that leveraged the power of Silverlight, Live Services, and VOIP. At one point, the team called Barack Obama from a Silverlight Facebook application using VOIP technology. Asking for some crowd participation, Cynergy had the whole room shout 'Hello from SXSW' to the Obama campaign's answering machine. Congratulations to Cynergy for the win!

We now have some great pictures from the application to show you.