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 Send to email | NY Tech Meetup: Real-Time Language Translation, Internet Booze in General |  By Silicon
el 02-Jul-2008 |
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 About 400 New York geeks and entrepreneurs converged on IAC's swank West Side Highway offices for still the hottest monthly event in Silicon Alley: The NY Tech Meetup. (New to the gong show? Seven startups got in front of the crowd to spend five minutes a piece pitching their ideas, with each presentation followed by a Q&A that invariably revolved around the themes of "What language is your site scripted in?" "Are you hiring?" and "So just what exactly is your revenue model?")
Two startups that raised some eyebrows:
Former Columbia Business School prof Robert Levin said he got the idea for Transclick while traveling in Central Asia and finding himself unable to talk to a French colleague. The idea: Software that can translate between 16 languages on-the-fly, so as one user types English the recepient reads German, Russian, or Farsi. The software is designed to work with a variety of formats, from email and SMS to instant-messaging platforms like Google's gtalk, Yahoo's YM, Skype, and even Second Life. Levin said he has eight patents pending for Transclick's technology and has raised $4.7 million in funding from private investors so far.
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 Wakozi CEO Rob Rizzo started his presentation telling the audience: "We are not Kozmo.com! We do not make deliveries ourselves." What Wakozi (a word Rizzo says means "deliverer" in Swahili) does is act as an intermediary between New York's wine shops and Internet consumers. Stores list their inventory on Wakozi, Web surfers select their picks and type in their credit cards, and the shop sends its deliveryman to fill the order with Wakozi taking a small commission. We love the idea -- New York wine shops all deliver anyway, and the site makes hunting down your favorite bottle of Alsatian Riesling all the easier. Rizzo says Wakozi currently works with about 50 stores throughout New York City, and so far over $50,000 in libations have been bought through the site. But the open question: Whether Wakozi's model will work anywhere outside of high density urban areas like New York.
Photos: Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider
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| Internet Week At NY Tech Meetup: The Big Guys Strut Their Stuff | | Typically, the monthly New York Tech Meetup is an opportunity for the unpolished founders of brand-new local start-ups to go up onstage, talk about their companies for five minutes, and risk heckling from an audience of 400.
But for the Internet Week New York installment of the gathering on Tuesday evening, host (and Meetup.com founder) Scott Heiferman invited a handful of Gotham tech su [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Jun-2008 by Silicon in General
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| NY Tech Meetup: Meet Muxtape | | A foolproof way to taste the latest in tech: Tuesday's NY Tech Meetup lineup is in, and we're anxious to hear from Justin Ouellette of Muxtape.com, the simple music sharing site that has Fred Wilson and the rest of the tech community buzzing. The meetup, which begins at 7 p.m., has given a nice boost to some of its presenting alumni: web-storage startup Drop.io followed its November presentat [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Mar-2008 by Silicon in General
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| NY Tech Meetup: Venue, Time Changeup | |
Changing places: May's NY Tech Meetup will now be held on Tuesday, May 13th at Cooper Union's Great Hall; it was previously scheduled for next Tuesday at IAC. For those who had already RSVP'd to the previous one: get back on the horse and RSVP again. There'll be 600 spots at Cooper Hall, with priority going to the Meetup veterans.
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| This Week In Silicon Alley (June 30 - July 3) | | A light week for tech events in advance of a holiday weekend. Happy 4th of July!
Monday June 30
NYC Web Design Meetup, 253 Broadway, Rm 302, 6 pm. RSVP required.
Eclipse DemoCamp, 101 Rivington St, 7pm
Tuesday July 1
NY Tech Meetup, IAC, 555 W. 18th St, 7 pm. Event full, additional RSVPs possible [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Jun-2008 by Silicon in General
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| NY Tech Meetup Preview: A Twofer For Betaworks |  Don't think we've seen this before: Two companies backed by the same ... group of investors* presenting at the same NY Tech Meetup.
Firefly, a cool display app for Websites, and Summize, a Twitter search engine, are two of the 14 companies that have gotten funding from John Borthwick's Betaworks since last fall. We've just started using Summize, and find it to be a pretty good u [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-May-2008 by Silicon in General
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| NY Tech Meetup Cancelled: Power Outage At IAC | | Tonight's NY Tech Meetup is cancelled because of an "emergency power outage" at Barry Diller's IAC HQ, organizer Dawn Barber says:
"Everyone will automatically get a refund today or tomorrow. We tried to find a replacement venue for tonight, but couldn't find anything for all 400 of us at this late notice.
The lineup you would have seen:
Li [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Aug-2008 by Silicon in General
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