The NY Tech Meetup hosted its first 2010 gathering at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology's Haft Auditorium in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood last night.
The evening kicked off with four one-minute long "pitches" from New-York based startups, including:
- PressLift: This new service from drop.io is designed to help publcists send videos and images to journalists.
- NYC Way: In a pitch that was compared to former pitchman Billie Mays, NYC Way's representative quickly showed the crowd how the iPhone application bundled together other applications under consideration for the NYC BigApps competition and what information they could provide about restaurants, commuting, and other facets of city life.
- Taxi Hack: This Web site allows users to submit realtime reviews of the taxis which they're in via Twitter and will store them for review.
- Yogoer: Users can visit this Web site to find information about yoga studios and to compare the prices of classes.
Following the one-minute pitches, four companies demoed their services, including:
- Speakertext:
The Web site allows users to submit video for transcription which an
outsourced transcription team will handle; users can then copy and
paste a specific portion of the text transcription which will link to
that part of the video to others.
- BlazeTrak: This company, whose Web site we saw a demo of back in August, helps connect aspiring performers to real-world music executives. Users sign up, send an executive a sample of their work, and get a video review from that executive for a fee. The company said that it expects to be cash-flow positive in the first quarter of 2010, a goal with the NY Tech Meetup's organizer said other startups should keep in mind.
- Artlog: This site, which we've posted about before, allows users to upload information about upcoming art shows, gallery openings, and other art-world events while aggregating chatter about each from Twitter.
- Udorse: This company, which NY Tech Meetup's organizer met at the TechCrunch 50, allows users to "endorse things" with user-generated pictures to get prizes, a concept which reminds NYConvergence of the mobile-social networking application Gowalla.
The meetup then concluded and some attendees went to network at the Black Door in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood where the staff kept the lights up and the music low to encourage members to keep talking about what they had seen and their own projects. Next month's gathering will be focused on social-media related products and services as it's taking place during Social Media Week; that meetup will be hosted by NY Tech Meetup founder Scott Heiferman.
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