Last night, Maria, Andrea, Andréa and I attended the October New York Tech Meetup — you can see a replay of all the presentations above. The city’s Deputy Mayor of Economic Development showed up to talk about the NYC BigApps competition, coincidentally just a few hours after we blogged about it. The company that’s running the competition for the city, ChallengePost, also presented about their own product, which is very cool. Other than that, we saw demonstrations from the following companies:

• CloudContacts: Give them all the business cards you’ve accumulated, and they will put all the data online for you, providing you with downloadable lists of contacts and linking the virtual business cards with the people’s social networking profiles. One of their clients gave them 12,000 business cards to catalog! Wonder how long that will take.

• SetJam: Aims to offer access to every TV show and movie available online, by linking to both paid (Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand) and free video sources.

• Postling: Helps businesses (and people) organize their social media presences by aggregating blogs, Twitter and Facebook status into one interface and allowing you to post to multiple platforms at once.

• Regroup: Helps organizations manage their communications (e-mail newsletters, text messages, social media) by aggregating them into one interface and allowing you to post to multiple outlets at once. During the Q&A, someone asked how this was different from Postling, and I agree that they really were too similar to present consecutively at the same NYTM. It’s better to mix it up!

• Tagnic: Allows Twitter users to tag people with a plus sign (such as +jaunty) and adds that tag to their Tagnic profile. They said they haven’t had any problems with people tagging others with negative or offensive tags…yet.

• AnyClip: Compiles movie clips into an elaborately-tagged database, allowing users to search for a wide variety of scenes. The audience-suggested searches during the demo were a little awkward — the search “food fight” brought up a scene from The Shawshank Redemption, for some reason — but they’ve only been around for four months and are still growing.
  

However, the highlight of the NYTM for me was a hilarious video presentation from OMGICU (which we have previously blogged about), launching their Twacy.org campaign to get Tracy Morgan to join Twitter. If you’re so inclined, you can also check out my live-twittered thoughts from throughout the event.

—Alyssa