Archive for June, 2007
NYC Tech Meetup - June 5, 2007
June 29th, 2007
This isnt live, but pre-recorded I guess. Here are the presenters I saw when I was paying attention:
Goloco - Looks pretty good, but dont see people really using it.
- Robin Chase
- Social networks into Travel Networks
ExpoTv - I like this idea, hope it catched on. Love the baby stuff reviews.
- Dfj gotham financed
- Video product review
- Syndicate video to Yahoo video, AOL video, Video review tied into
- Buy.com via upc code
- Good for reviews
- NY based, 17 people
- Competitors -
- How do reviewers make money - $5 a video
- The “new focus group”
Livelook.net - Tech Looks kewl, but the chick would offend most geeks. Also too salesey.
- 2 product (consumer, )
- Instead of Webex
- Uses Java
- Competitor - Copilot
- NJ
Adaptive Blue - cute applet of sorts. I wouldnt use it but maybe a less technical person would.
- Organizer of some kind
- Based on web context you can search/take action to other built in sites
- Plugin
- Customized via user
- Seth Godin
Mogulus - very kewl, I hope these guys make it. I also hope it works as well as it did in the demo. They showed some weird ass videos as an example, people getting buried in the middle east.
- NY
- Live Video
- Kewl
- Full management console
- Flash
- Built on S3
James Hong - I like this concept; will look into it for work.
- Hot or Not
- Facebook App
Links du jour and other stuff
June 28th, 2007
Neopets - for the kids
Domystuff - outsource your stuff
MySquibbles - for the kids
Goobegone - to get rid of that sticky stuff when ou take off stickers. Gotta get some.
Use flickr for kids - shapes, colors, etc… Good idea.
A day in the life photobook. A good activity for the family.
Storynori podcast - podcast good for the kids; in the car.
Valleyfreeradio - podcast good for kids; music in the car.
Blackberry Orphans - my life.
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