My reportage of last night’s New York Tech Meetup is based on listening to the Livestream while I was in the kitchen preparing dinner, but making quick visits between sautes to my MacBook to take a peek.
Yup, another quirky, short Technoverse review of NYTM demos at Skirball.
Social Workout has an intriguing concept—community members commit to a healthy lifestyle challenge–but I fear this startup may go to the enterprise dark side, developing features for such evil HR goals as getting employees to eating healthy while working more hours. I’m still bedazzled by Foodspotting (and Food52), so I’m just not that into Dinevore, another social restaurant rating site. The CRM-ish Tout tracks email analytics for campaigns and makes good sense for small companies. Crisp Media is doing serious business with an open ad platform that serves interactive ads while avoiding ad networks (read iAds).
Radbox nows holds my Jon Stewart clips
All good, but I was most captivated by the story of Radbox. Hailing from New Delhi (“the land of snake charmers and Java developers”), Aditya “Addy” Sahay gave a winning presentation of a simple, practical, and usable video bookmarking and sharing app. No messy plugins, just drag their bookmarklet button into a browser’s toolbar and you’re ready to go.
I started using Radbox immediately to collect my favorite Jon Stewart videos. Radbox, by the way, supports a zillion different video services (YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, Blip.tv, College Humor, Jibjab, Comedy Central, etc.). It worked flawlessly for me so far.
Addy is in the process of finding a home base for his startup, and from what he says New York City is top on his list.
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