The April 2010 NY Tech Meetup began with demos by area college students Tuesday night at the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology's Haft Auditorium in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.  These college students had recently participated in and created their applications during the 24-Hour Hackathon, about which we'd written previously.  The demos included:

• Dropioke: Built on the Drop.io API, the Web-based application allows users to share and tag music through Drop.io.
• Aviary Tennis: Using the Aviary API, users can access this Web-based application to compete in the creation of satirical images.
• Candidates allows users to search specific venues to see who has checked in there via location-based social networking service Foursquare.

Following the student demos, area entrepreneurs' presentations included:

• Where Do You Go?, which creates a "heat map" of the locations where a user has checked in on Foursquare;
• Hangalong, which enables friends to schedule times for when they want to meet and incorporates data about users from the various social networks which they use in order to facilitate new friendships being made;
• Project Noah, an Apple iPhone app which is designed to allow users to identify wildlife which they encounter while out and about;
• Sense Networks' Cabsense (pictured, below right), about which we've written before, provided attendees with a peak at the data used by the app to determine the best locations in Manhattan at which to find taxis;
• BantamLive showed off its "social CRM workspace;"
• Whistlebox's representative played along with the characters in its augmented reality game for children, one of the adventures of the "Do Crew;" and
• Parse.ly's creators talked about how its technology allowed users to filter news from a variety of sources.