The Coolest TECH cocktail Photo Video Mashup
April 25, 2008
Nick O’Neill, a D.C. native and founder of Social Times, has leveraged Animoto, a product we played around with previously, to create the coolest TECH cocktail Photo Mashup. To date, it is one of the best I have seen. Check it out the TECH cocktail DC 2 Photo Video Mashup on Social Times. Thank you Nick, that video rocks!
TECH cocktail DC 2 Thank You & Photos
April 25, 2008
Thanks to the over 400 TECH cocktailers that came together at MCCXXIII (1223 Club) last night on the warm spring evening in Washington, D.C. We are happy we were able bring the community together and show off some of the local technology startups. We had some great demos from the following companies:
AwayFind - a product aimed at helping combat the email problem by letting your contacts get in touch with you via an online form.
iGala - a digital photo frame with a touchscreen interface that connects directly to Flickr and Gmail to stream photos to the frame like a slideshow.
Loladex - offers local recommendations from your trusted network of Facebook friends.
Odeo - launched a new beta verision which offers both search and personalized content (audio and video) recommendations.
Voxant - a free licensed content offering for publishers which offers a pageview based revenue share to anyone that embeds the content on a their site.
WhyGoSolo - a new social networking site aimed at helping you to create spontaneous new connections so, as its name implies, you won’t go solo any longer.
We could not put on an event like TECH cocktail DC 2 without the support of our sponsors which included AOL, Viget Labs, Voxant, Network Solutions and Jess3 - thank you. Stickers for TECH cocktail DC 2 were provided by StickerGiant.com.
The very talented D.C. local photographer Raoul Pop captured the evenings happenings in his photos - check out the TECH cocktail DC 2 Photos.
Updated: You can also check out this TECH cocktail DC 2 video (below).
WhyGoSolo Handshake Before TECH cocktail DC 2
April 23, 2008
In the spirit of amplifying the technology signal in under served market; we love to support and bring light to the startups in the cities like Chicago, D.C., Boston and Boulder. We do this through our sponsors, as well as having the local startups demo at our events.
One of the startups showing off its stuff at TECH cocktail DC 2 tomorrow, WhyGoSolo, wants to showoff a little early to make its demo tomorrow night have a bigger impact on the DC community and better connecting people together at the event. Simply get yourself a WhyGoSolo Handshake for the event which basically means that someone else is going to agree to attend TECH Cocktail DC 2 with you but keep in mind you still need to RSVP here for TECH cocktail DC 2. Visit WhyGoSolo.com (create an account if you don’t already have one) and create a listing for TECH Cocktail DC 2. Here is an example of a listing from Keith the CTO of WhyGoSolo. Send it to Twitter and add it to your Facebook profile and see who is interested in joining you. For example, here is a link to Keith’s listing – that has already been Handshaked.
I’m guessing this could be kinda fun – especially since it opens up the ability to meetup with a few new people online before and then in reality at TECH cocktail DC 2.
A TECH cocktail DC 2 Preview
April 22, 2008
With over 350 TECH cocktailers have RSVP’ed for TECH cocktail DC 2 and it approaching fast we wanted to take an opportunity to give a brief preview of the event. We could not do it without the support of our fine sponsors. TECH cocktail DC 2 is sponsored by AOL, Viget Labs, Voxant, Network Solutions and Jess3 (one of our preferred service providers):
TECH cocktail is a “cocktail of tech people” looking to help amplify the technology signal of the local community and what better way to do so than to showoff some of the great new startups in the area. The following companies will be demonstrating their products and services in an expo-style at TECH cocktail DC 2: AwayFind, iGala, Loladex, Odeo, Voxant and WhyGoSolo.
See you there. Also if you are up for it… our friends at Lijit Networks are hosting a breakfast in DC on Friday morning. Come hangout from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sign up here.
Announcing TECH cocktail DC 2
March 20, 2008
Staying true to our mission of helping to amplify the technology signal in under served markets and have fun doing it we are excited to announce TECH cocktail DC 2! It has been almost a year since our last TECH cocktail DC and in case you missed it you can get caught up on what happened at TECH cocktail DC 1 and check out some of the TECH cocktail DC 1 photos. Make sure to subscribe to the DC only TECH cocktail email updates to keep up to date on what we’re doing in DC.
Here are the important details:
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Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Venue: MCCXXIII: 1223 Connecticut Avenue, NW - Washington, DC 20036 (Map)
Cost: $0 - It’s free!
RSVP: techcocktaildc2.eventbrite.com
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TECH cocktail DC 2 will be sponsored by AOL and Viget Labs, Voxant, Network Solutions and Jess3 (one of our preferred service providers). If you are interested in sponsoring TECH cocktail DC 2 we still have spots open so please contact us as soon as possible - more information on sponsoring is here. We run these events to break even and would love to do so on this second event. Also if you are interested in demoing your startup product or service please contact us.
The following companies will be demonstrating their products and services in an expo-style at TECH cocktail DC 2: AwayFind, iGala, Loladex, Odeo, Voxant and WhyGoSolo.
Also if you are up for it… our friends at Lijit Networks are hosting a breakfast in DC on Friday morning. Come hangout from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sign up here.
See you there!
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Preferred Creative Service Provider: Jess3 
Preferred Accounting Services Provider: Frost, Ruttenberg & Rothblatt, P.C. 
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Teaming for Technology
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