Video from February 2013 NY Tech Meetup

Missed the February 2013 NY Tech Meetup? You can still watch the video here.

You can see the full list of presenting companies here. 

Looking forward to our next NY Tech Meetup on March 19.

Lineup for February 5 NY Tech Meetup

Can't attend the meetup in person? You can find the live video stream here.

Here are the demoers for the Feburary 5, 2013 NY Tech Meetup:

HowAboutWe.com
http://www.howaboutwe.com/
@howaboutwe
HowAboutWe is the first experience-driven dating and relationships company.

Combosaurus
http://combosaurus.com
@combosaurus
Combosaurus: Discover your next favorite interest or person

shelby.tv
http://shelby.tv
@shelby
Shelby.tv is the best place to discover and share video.

Catchafire
http://www.catchafire.org
@catchafire
Catchafire.org: Give what you're good at

Mortar Data
http://www.mortardata.com
@mortardata.com
Mortar Data: Open source framework and Hadoop-as-a-Service for engineers & data scientists.

SumAll
http://www.sumall.com
@sumall
SumAll provides a beautiful, interactive, easy to use business intelligence tool to small and medium sized businesses and marketers. Currently more than 28,000 businesses use the tool

Dawn Robotics
http://www.dawnrobotics.com/
Talos: The Personal Robot

MLB Advanced Media
http://MLB.com
@MLB
A live stream look behind the live stream of NYTM.

Yext
http://www.yext.com
@yext
Yext: Industry-leading location Information software to update your business info with just a click.

Tactonic Technologies
http://www.tactonic.com
Tactonic Sensors enables Touch 2.0 pressure sensing multi-touch interaction on ANY size surface, either as components or as tiles: for mobile devices, peripherals, tables, walls, floors, and more.

Citia
http://CITIA.com
@goCitia
Citia creates delightful digital places for entertainment, publishing and trans-media enterprises. Cross-device premium content platforms that put users first.

Help us make NYC the best city for tech in the world!

In times of crisis, the NY Tech Meetup has played an important role activating members of our community to get involved and take action. The results, as in the cases of the SOPA/PIPA debates and with the relief efforts in the wake of Sandy, were actions that had enormous positive impact on our city.

But times of crisis shouldn't be the only time our community gets involved in making our city work better. With New York City elections taking place later this year for Mayor, Comptroller, Public Advocate, Borough Presidents, and City Council seats, we have an opportunity to engage in discussion and debate about what policy issues are most important, not just for people working in technology, but also for people enabled by technology.

To that end, we’ve committed to amplifying the voices and ideas of the members of the NY tech community by inviting you to participate in conversations around the policies that are most important to you. The results of these conversations will be brought to the attention of the candidates running for public office and will be the starting point of dialogue at candidates’ forums we will host in the spring for the citywide offices of Mayor, Comptroller, and Public Advocate.

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of the opportunity ahead of us - the policies implemented by public officials going forward will have a profound effect on the city’s future, so by doing our part to ensure the candidates are well-informed and are committed to implementing sound policies, we’ll have played a significant role in helping make a better NYC for everyone for a long time to come.

The board of the NY Tech Meetup has prepared a list of key issues we believe represent some of the most important areas of focus. We see this as a starting point; it’s up to you to help determine which of these issues, and which other issues, are important to you and to the rest of the city.

You can help in this process by participating in one or all of the following three key ways:

Review, Vote On and Add to the Policy Goals:
Today, we're launching an online platform to discuss each of the issues. Each policy goal (noted below) is listed as a separate item so you can vote it up, vote it down, or add your own. Sound off! http://nytechmeetup.ideascale.com

Organize a Public Policy Meetup:
If you want to organize an event around one or several of these topics, we want to help you make it happen. Suggest a meetup here.

Invite your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and social media contacts to participate too! If more people are involved in the conversation then more ideas and potential support can be achieved. We have created a special hashtag for this process: #NYTMVote

Here are the initial policy goals and ideas that the NY Tech Meetup Board of Directors believes constitutes a starting point for the conversation about how to advance the future of New York:

1. Make New York City the most wired city on earth by providing every New Yorker and every New York business regardless of location access to the fastest broadband networks at the lowest cost.
2. Reinvent the education system to allow every child, young adult, and all New Yorkers to develop the skills necessary to thrive in a 21st century economy.
3. Make New York City the clear choice for entrepreneurs, software engineers, and other technically skilled professionals to start a business and build a career by making it easy to find partners, financing, office space and housing, employees, and access to markets.
4. Support the appointment of a Deputy Mayor for Technology Innovation with an appropriate budget charged with the responsibility of reinventing New York City government with a 21st century framework.
5. Make New York City’s system for civic participation the most open, transparent, accountable, participatory, and innovative in the world.
6. Make New York City the most citizen-connected community on earth, where its people connect with each other to unleash a powerful 21st century economy: selling to each other, renting to each other, funding each other, sharing with each other, coworking with each other, meeting up with each other, and hiring each other.
7. Support public policies that would ensure that technology and the opportunities available to the tech community can reach all New York’s citizens, and help solve issues related to healthcare, human rights and justice, gender equality, transportation, the environment, and other issues of fundamental importance to all New Yorkers.

Let’s make the future of New York City better together!

Thank you,

NY Tech Meetup Board of Directors

#InternetFreedomDay

From a note to our members sent on 1/17/2013:

Dear NY Tech Meetup Community –

January 18 marks the one-year anniversary of the day when our community came together to help stop the now infamous SOPA/PIPA legislation that threatened Internet freedom and the growth of New York's tech enabled innovation economy. Thousands of us took to the streets in protest and the images from our demonstration and our voices were seen and heard around the world. Between our physical presence, the thousands of websites blacked out in protest, and the millions of calls and emails sent to Congress, the bills were stopped, for now.

However, this anniversary is also bittersweet with the sad passing of Aaron Swartz this past weekend. Aaron was an active member of our community and was the closing speaker at our SOPA/PIPA rally last year (you can hear his words here, at 37:27 - http://new.livestream.com/nytm2012/nytm2012).

Aaron was a passionate advocate for access to information and for a free and open Internet, and contributed significantly to the dialogue and push for progress in these key areas that have an impact on all of us.  Friends of Aaron are planning a public memorial service for him this Saturday, January 19, at Cooper Union. Visit http://aaronswnyc.eventbrite.com/ for details and to RSVP.

With Aaron in our memory, the coalition of organizations and individuals that came together last year to defeat SOPA and PIPA are declaring January 18 #InternetFreedomDay. Help spread the word by joining this Thunderclap: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/1039-internet-freedom-day and linking to www.internetfreedomday.net

NY Tech Meetup will continue to be vigilant to not only protect the open Internet but to also make sure that the environment for growth of the NY tech community is as strong as possible.

Thank you again for all that you do to make our community great.

Best,
The NYTM Team