Sitting here and listening to a presentation on Adaptive Blue, a FireFox plugin that allows you to interact with content and shows what other friends have interacted with the same content. They deal with privacy by allowing for approval, and you can get rid of individual records you don’t want to be seen.
10gen and AlleyCorp - Kevin Ryan talks about his development enviornment, seems to have everything you need and is connected to the cloud. There’s nothing all that revolutionary here, but the single enviornment along with the cloud makes it interesting. Intact, Silicon Valley Insider runs on 10gen. Your getting relief from System Admin and Platform Gotchas.
Will at Cookstr - got interested in The Long Tail - publishing Cookbook Authors who would be shut out of the web, for various reason.
You can search on recipes by various criteria. Pretty much, this is a portal for recipes, and you can save your own recipes, etc; Social Networking part needs to be added, later.
Wee Web - for new parents, grandparents. Can’t say I’m into this website, service.
CO-OP is good app to share what you and your coworkers are doing. This product is good for teamwork, same people behind Harvest. Www.Coopapp.com.
The program attempts to showcpeople what everyone is working on now. It is a way to bond with your coworkers.
The program is good for showing what we’ve done, too.
Mixed Ink - allows groups to brains to brainstorm and create a joint document.
The documents are rated and updated in real time. Some great ideas here. This software was used for The Netropts Healthcare Plank that was covered in Wired recently.
Habitat Map - online tools to support community mapping, visualing what happens after you flush your toilot, for example, for example, you can find out where your trash is likely to go. Ha.
Good for overlaying maps, etc. Crowdsource knowledge
Good Presentations tonight. Going to the the TechSet party after this.
What about the future of the New York Tech Meetup?
An announcement is being made here, today. Over the 4 years the meetup has had several locations, with more and more and tech meetups.
7500+ members and more and more events. So much more is possible and to realize our potential, so the leader is stepping down.
A new board of directors and an elected organizer seeks to create a new organization that could, eventuallylaunch startups.
