The NY Tech Meetup's members gathered last night at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology's Haft Auditorium in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to hear startups demo their latest creations and announcements of interest to the tech community in NYC, forgoing the group's historic August break. We have included Livestream's video of the meetup below.
The evening consisted of six presentations and two announcements. Presentations were made by:
- Blip.tv, which just recently held a press conference to announce their new partnerships, showed off their new platform which provides content producers with more information such as where their Internet television shows are being distributed and their viewers' habits (where they rewind, where they shut off the video, etc.).
- Rocketboom, which previously debuted Magma at a NY Video 2.0 Meetup, demonstrated the video-aggregation Web site's social-media capabilities.
- WellcomeMat had a few technical difficulties, but their representatives were ultimately able to explain PegShot, their new service which allows you to peg videos to a map using your iPhone 3GS.
- Comixology also had an iPhone application, one which allows users to order comic books online which they can pick up at their local comic-book store and also offers what appeared to be a limited ability to view full comic books on an iPhone.
- Hunch didn't have an iPhone application, but they do have a Web site which relies on a series of user-submitted questions to help others users find the information which they're looking for.
- The meetup's last presentation was of Translation Party, a Web site that asks users to enter a phrase in English which the site translates into Japanese and then back into English with humorous results. Organizer Nate Westheimer entered a question abouts its API which coincided with the Internet connection dropping on stage.
The announcements made were about the ability to order a NY Tech Meetup t-shirt (proceeds will be donated to charity) and the retooling of the NY Tech Meetup Web site by Magnify to aggregate Twitter comments about, and photos and video taken or made at the meetup in one location on the group's Web site.
[Editor's Note: Magnify powers NYConvergence's NYConvergence TV channel.]
Livestream's Video of the NY Tech Meetup
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