OMGPOP's Charles Forman, a veteran NY Tech Meetup presenter, took to the stage last night prior to the last presentation to announce a new monthly feature.  NY Tech Meetup members can submit what they find really inspiring to him each month and he'll select one to be highlighted on stage.  Since this was the first of these, Forman himself showcased NinjaVideo.net, a Web site which allows users to view popular programs online and which he also admitted might not be legal. 

The rest of the meetup (setup pictured, left) this month was dominated by presentations.  First, four companies discussed their Web-based services, including:

• FiLife: This Web site allows users to submit questions about financial matters for free, so other users can see them, or privately to financial advisors using the site for ten dollars.
• Pink Dingo: Users can sign into this Web site to make small donations to non-profits.
• Bellaga, which bills itself as a "fashion marketplace," offers a clean design and large images of fashions for sale.
• Needakick lets users reward themselves for completing a project monetarily.  They can, according to the presenter, also lose money, but where the money goes when it's lost was not specified.

The five main presentations included:

• Bundle, which we've written about before, showed off their interface for comparing New Yorkers' spending habits.
• Surphace demonstrated its recommendation widget, which suggests other related content to readers of a post or article on a Web site.
• Venmo's founders exchanged money with each other via text message from their Venmo accounts.
• Crowd Fusion's Brian Alvey talked about his past work on the Web and also showed how his company's CMS could be uses to build other CMSes.
• Qlipso arranged a three-way video conference call with its team to let the audience see how it could be used to view Flash-based content on the Web with friends.