April NY Tech Meetup

Apr 2006 4
Tue 7:00 PM
Location
This location is no longer available
Estimated attendance
 206  people attended.
4.00 4.0046

Who organized?
Scott Heiferman

Event fee

$5.00 per person

Open floor for the NY tech community to demo, present, show off, announce, hype... 6 people get 5 minute spots.

Room costs $1,000, so please pitch in $5 at the door.
(The other $500 will go for staff help, drink, and other expense.)

Here's who's up...

1. Andrew Rasiej, FON
http://fon.com...
Revolutionary wireless access
Andrew ran for Public Advocate of NYC and runs:
http://www.personalde...
And founded MOUSE ( http://mouse.org/... )

2. Jim Coffman, Blogamp
http://blogamp.source...
New service/solution which combines webcasting and
podcasting to anyone who produces audio for the web

3. Tom Kane, Commontales
http://www.commontale...
Writing The World’s Autobiography — one memory at a time —
on the way to One Million Stories from around the world!

4. Patrick Fitzsimmons, ZipApp
http://demo.zipapp.co...
Building a browser based Excel/Access, allows users to
turn their spreadsheets or Access DBs into an online web app

5. Breck, Alias-i
http://www.alias-i.co...
Java api for natural lang processing/text analytics--
solid tech, dual license open source

6. Mark Hurst, Gootodo
http://www.goodexperi...
Gootodo is a Web-based todo list that can radically
boost your productivity.
Mark also started the gel conference
http://www.gelconfere...
... and the Good Experience Newsletter and more
http://www.goodexperi...

MUST RSVP TO ATTEND. There's only space for 300. Sorry.

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Who attended?

  • 206 attendees
    • Rob
       Well organized, fast paced, informative, good networking oppt'y 
    •  Sadly, this meetup is a victim of its own success and is probably growing too large. 
    • Eric Friedman (+1 guest)
       This was my first meetup and it went great! 
    • Craeg K Strong (+1 guest)
       nicely done. not too long 
    •  Crowd has changed since NYTimes article...but I guess we can't control these things. 
    •  Presentations are a bit of a mixed bag. Perhaps a little more guidance would help. Nothing detailed but 4-5 bullet points of suggested items to cover would help answer the most overlooked items. (e.g., is this a company or a hobby, what's your revenue model (if any), what are you hoping to get out of this presentation. Name tags helped. Would you want to go a bit further and let people add what they want (e.g., looking for work, looking for funding, looking to invest)? 
    •  It was too big and lost some of the flavor of the previous meetups 
    •  Great group of people, diverse technologies and many new faces. 
    •  Interesting, enjoyable, accessible to non-techies. Although I think presentations work well and help people practice, it might be nice to experiment with alternative approaches occasionally to explore different group dynamics. 
    •  My first time, will be back next month for sure. 
    • Breck Baldwin (+2 guests)
       Thanks for having me. It was an important step for my company to present to the general public. 
    •  Give the following guieline to speakers: The presentation should cover the following: 1) Who are we? 2) Who would want our product/service? Why? (option: who are the competitiors) 3) What is the key characteristic/technology/paradigm shift that makes you better than what exists? 4) Show something cool 
    •  Solid presenters 
    •  Need to allocate more time to networking/discussion among attendees. 
    •  venue was a little dark. how about some more light next time. 
    •  Bad presenters. Very boring. The last two were much better. 
    •  Needed a wireless microphone in the audience for Q&A 
    •  They just keep getting better! The presenters have so many great projects and have really done a great job with them. 
    •  Presentations were interesting but in terms of total experience, the 10th Ave. location is very out-of-the-way. Ideally, we would find a loft like or auditorium space (Cooper Union auditorium, perhaps with lots of room for networking outside the auditorium?). 
    • Dianne McGunigle (+1 guest)
    • Matt Dilmaghani (+1 guest)
    • Michael Hoydich (+1 guest)
    • Bradley Glenn (+4 guests)
    • francisco villegas (+1 guest)
    • Alon Cohen (+1 guest)
    • E. Holley Atkinson (+1 guest)

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