NYTech Meetup - October 2010

Been some time since I live-blogged, so here it goes:

Andrew Raisej kicks off with an announcement of WeGovernment - things that are useful for their civic lives. Introduces the Deputy Mayor - MediaNYC2020 - series of initiatives. Establishment of business incubators, creation of a media lab for commercialization of new technologies, launch of the BigApps competition.

BigApps accomplish transparency in government, innovative ideas, improve efficiencies of city government, and provides developers and programmers the content needed for new apps. Doubling the datasets, winners will meet the mayor and get $20K in prizes. http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6301114

Brandon Kessler - ChallengePost - describing the NYC Big Apps 2.0 - use at least one dataset and make it available to the public. Submission deadline - Jan 12, 2011.

One Minute Presentations
Ari presents HowMutch - www.howmutch.com - learn about how much people would pay for various product offerings?