NYConvergence ORIGINAL

Mobile Monday hosted its first event in Brooklyn last night, Mobile Monday Brooklyn or #MoMoBk on Twitter.  Sponsored by RRE Ventures, the event consisted of networking and nine mobile applications presentations by NYC-based developers, incuding:

- Hot Potato: The application, only available for the Apple iPhone, currently allows users to chat and share photos in a "chat room" like environment on their phone.  The next version, due out before SXSW Interactive, is expected to have audio and video capabilities.

- Big Mapple: Currently available only on the Web, this application allows users to see nearby events on a map of their neighborhood. 

- Sit or Squat: The brainchild of one of the co-inventors, this application was developed to help her locate bathrooms in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood.  Originally, it listed all of the bathrooms she had on her blog, but now, its database consists of restrooms submitted by users.

- BeerCloud: This Drupal-powered application was described as a "Wikipedia" for beer.

- NYC Broken Meters: This application assists users in finding broken parking meters in New York City where, according to law, parking is legal and free.

- Where Brooklyn App?: Developed by DUMBO, Brooklyn-based Carrot Creative in their Carrot Labs, this applicaton enables users to find out historical information about the borough, the locations of parks, upload photos via Flickr, and find out more about trending venues from Foursquare.

- Primo Spot: This paid application allows users to view parking regulations based on where they plan to park.

- Stylecaster: Due to a technical snafu, this application's creators were not able to show attendees what it does, but they informed the audience that it offers suggestions on what to wear based on the current weather wherever you are in the world.

- PegShot: The final presentation involved sample images which had been "pegged" to a specific location and shared via services such as Twitter and Facebook.

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This just in:  Six states have now lifted the marriage ban.  You are now free to marry the soon to be released Apple Tablet in California, New York, Arkansas, Ohio, Maine and Vermont.  The rest of you will just have to go to one of these events to try to find human life partners:

Monday, January 25th
6:00PM The Future of Music: with Lyor Cohen, CEO Rec. Music, Warner Music
Lyor Cohen (http://en.wikipedia.o...) - who has been a pioneer in the development of hip hop, and is Chairman and CEO Recorded Music of Recorded Music for Warner Music - will offer some thoughts and lead a discussion on what trends are effecting music in a +30 year sense.  There will be an iPod check at the door to determine the copyright status of your digital music.  Violators will be prosecuted.  No, just kidding...I think.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/calendar/12276640/

7:00PM Moble Monday Brooklyn (MoMoBK) Inaugural Event: NY Apps, So Hot Right Now
Mobile Monday Brooklyn demo night of awesome apps created by local NYC and Brooklyn developers.   The following apps will be presented:  Hot Potato- Event sharing app for iPhone, Sit or Squat- Public restroom locator,  Where Brooklyn App?- AR app with Brooklyn points of interest,  StyleCaster- Provides daily looks based on the weather,  BigMapple- Uses Twitter and Flickr to map NYC events,  BeerCloud- Ultimate beer lover app,  PegShot- Photo/video service to share what you're doing with friends,  Guerilla Apps- Broken Parking Meters helps you find these free spots,  SpokesNYC- Bicycle routing app for city dwellers.

RSVP: http://momobkjan10.eventbrite.com/

 

Tuesday, January 26th

8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond

Join our panel of experts in media law, health care communications and digital/social media as we explore what this heightened government scrutiny may mean for PR practitioners, marketers and media strategists.

RSVP:  http://www.prsany.org/index.php?s=event&itemid=163

Wednesday, January 27th

6:30PM  New York Video January Meetup
A new decade is in front of us and as we tip our hats to 5min for winning our top honor of 2009, we're looking forward to big things from all our members in the year ahead. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. We're also trying out a swanky new space at the TAJ Lounge in midtown.

RSVP:  http://www.meetup.com/nyvideo/calendar/12134493/

 

7:00PM: NYC MusicTechnology Meetup

Presenters will include:
    * Morgan Lang, presenting RebelX iPhone app.
    * Unha Engels, presenting CuriousBrain iPhone app.
    * Craig Swann, presenting ClubCreate
    * Thomas Tracey, presenting Thumbplay Music service.
Also a Special Announcement from Jesse Kirshbaum of SoundCtrl

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/music-techster/calendar/12329809/

Thursday, January 28th

7PM 20dot20 Advertising, Music & Media MixerCheck out the studio where iconic artists such as Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and many others churned out their hits.
On the invite list, as always, are the top Advertising, Music, Media & Technology professionals. Be sure to bring plenty of business cards and samples or your work, promotional literature and/or products as appropriate

RSVP:  http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2ot4f1u5a7aacf0&oseq=

Friday, January 29th

9:30AM  North Brooklyn Breakfast Club

This is the first of our monthly breakfasts, which take place the last Friday of every month at 9:30am at Enid's in Greenpoint/Williamsburg.
The agenda:
    * Quick introductions over breakfast
    * Three brief demos, including one from Hot Potato
    * Casual networking session, with free Wi-Fi on offer for those who want to stick around and work in a community environment

RSVP:  http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2ot4f1u5a7aacf0&oseq=

Saturday, January 30th

10AM through the weekend   Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort

Crisis Camp Haiti NYC will take place January 30 & 31, 2010 joining together with technology volunteers at Crisis Camps in three countries and 10 cities to provide local opportunities for citizens to assist in crisis mapping, data management, and RSS feed aggregation. In addition, people with specialized skills such as translation, computer programing and literacy advocates are encouraged to participate.

RSVP:  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/543649069

NYConvergence ORIGINAL

Urbansignals hosted a launch event in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood last night at Safeharbor Gallery to promote its new iPhone application that aims to "solve the 'missed connection' phenomenon."  Founder Aubree Nichols (pictured) told NYConvergence that Urbansignals allows its users to instantly message other users nearby on the application's GPS map, eliminating the need for them to resort to Craigslist to try to find the object of their affection.

[Editor's Note: The photo is provided courtesy of Random Night Out.]

On the blog A Starving Entrepreneur, budding tech entrepreneur Sam Rosen talks about his recent transition from Wall Street to the NY tech startup scene. 

The key discovery he has made during this time is that collaboration is the key to success in the NY tech scene, finding that there are a plethora of new startups and people who are looking to connect  through events such as Future of Local Media, Hackers and Founders and NextNY. 

A Starving Entrepreneur

NYConvergence ORIGINAL

Snac, a NY-based company and one of the presenters at today's PluggedIn: The Mobile and Social Media Summit, demonstrated its downloadable mobile application that creates an "iPhone-like interface on nearly 300 different mobile phones- both smartphones, and most importantly regular phones."  The summit (pictured) was held in two locations which are party of the Sy Syms School of Business on Yeshiva University's campus in Manhattan's Murray Hill neighborhood.

The interface bore a resemblance to an application familiar to users of older Palm devices and other PDAs, Vindigo.  And later on in the presentation, the company's representative, Kevin King, informed the attendees that had been at that company, which "aimed to bring a broader range of information to the Palm Pilot platform."

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