blip.tv presents at NY Tech Meetup
“New York City has produced about $35 billion in tech assets over the past decade. That makes it second only to the Bay Area.” – CNET
Allan (a friend of ours) at blip.tv (New York-based startup) presented their new dashboard at NY Tech Meetup this week. The dashboard is a single place where video creators can do almost everything they need to distribute their video across many sources and generate ad revenue. For starters, it allows creators to upload multiple versions of their videos in various formats and distribute them in a single step across 80% of all Internet-video providers, including YouTube, Vimeo, TiVo, Verizon FiOS On-Demand, a WNBC digital TV channel called New York Non-Stop, and more. They also built several new analytic tools into the dashboard, including the ability to see a timeline graph of your video that shows when people stopped watching or when they rewound and watched again.
The audience at NY Tech Meetup was impressed and so was I. The other demos were great and it was nice to see once again how packed the auditorium was (over 400 people on a Tuesday evening in August). It reflects well on the New York tech community as NY Tech Meetup has been growing rapidly in popularity, now reaching over 10,000 members. There are also many other great events setup in New York City for the tech community – particularly for Internet start-ups.
- Bootup puts startups in front of engineers to create a forum for analysis and the technical pitch. It is the startup-focused counterpart to NYPHP’s monthly corporate meetings at IBM (operated by the New York PHP User Group Community, the world’s largest PHP user community).
- Ultra Light Startups (recently referred to as Self-Help for Startups, by Businessweek), held in Chelsea, Manhattan.
- StartUpAlhpa, an entrepreneurship network in the greater New York area that hosts various events.
- The Hatchery, where audiences watch while technology companies pitch their ideas to a panel, after which they receive priceless guidance and feedback from successful entrepreneurs.
- Other events include the NextWeb | NY Web 2.0 Meetup, the SEMPO New York, and Web2NewYork (New York Web Entrepreneurs).