Here's a cool post on last night's NY Tech MeetUP.

http://newsfeed.civilnetizen.com/entries/2006/10/4/the-october-ny-tech-meetup.html By: David A. Evans

The October NY Tech Meetup

It's once again that time of the month - the October NY Tech Meetup, again held at the NYU School of Medicine. As usual, the crowd was packed with an enthusiastic group of folks interested in learning about the city's best new tech companies and products. Interestingly enough, a large portion of the crowd was made up of first timers. Scott even wondered if he was losing folks. Well, your friendly neighborhood Netizens are still attending and as usual, we'd like to recap what we saw and thought of the event. So without further ado, here'sa quick summary of the presenters:

Magnify.net - Presented by Steve Rosenbaum, creator of MTV Unfiltered, Magnify.net is a site that allows for community powered video. Basically, the site allows users to create their own channels to categorize and rate content so that its easier to find video that's relevant to you. He entertained the audience with a clip of a Representative Foley spoof and showed how Magnify pipes it correctly into a Foley Comedy channel. An innovative slider rating system helps ensure content ends up in the right place. For now, they'll probably only be earning revenue through ads, but I'm definitely curious how they'll make money in the long term. Let's just hope YouTube doesn't do the same thing for Maginfy's sake...