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Twiistup connects people from technology, media and entertainment.

Our events feature several startups chosen to ‘showoff’ their products & services to the media, investors, influential bloggers, fellow technologists and those interested in learning about what’s hot in tech.

An alternative to traditional networking events, Twiistup mixes it up with tunes, video, bites, beverages, prizes, swag and the unexpected.

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Cogi Automates Note Taking

 

Cogi was created to solve a problem everyone shares – how to remember and act upon the important points that flow from every conversation. With its service, Cogi gives users a way to effortlessly recall and track important conversations through the use of a web-based experience that seamlessly transcribes the important parts of conversations – the ‘COGent Ideas’ or Cogi. Cogi allows you to forget about note-taking and become more active in the conversation.  The service provides accurate, timely and secure audio recordings and text transcripts of conversations, conducted on the phone or in person.


(Brian Solis, briansolis.com)

Cogi: Cogi’s founders spent a significant amount of time on the phone and in meetings.  Trying to capture the most important parts of their conversations, tracking action items, and remembering who said what and when was an ongoing struggle.  With details coming at many business people at an ever accelerating pace, it’s no wonder that the content of conversations is forgotten by the end of most calls. Simply writing down notes felt like an inefficient, unreliable method for staying on top of projects, and the time consuming process of summarizing a conversation in an email can lead to leaving out important points or misinterpretation.

Seeing the universality of their own problems, Cogi’s founders set out to create an automated way to capture and track their conversations, to take verbatim notes at the push of a button, and create an email-like system that allows users to easily share conversations with any coworker.  Cogi was born to help busy professionals hang onto their ‘COGent Ideas’ or Cogi, enabling them to be more productive, accurate and save time.  They can replay the entire conversation, listen to the highlighted portions, or read the transcript of those highlighted moments - as if they were there with you in the conversation.  Nothing gets lost in translation.

Cogi: Proprietary. Simply put, current fully-automated, computer-based speech recognition systems simply can’t provide satisfactory transcription accuracy (especially in circumstances with multiple speakers or background noise) - that’s why we use our patent-pending combination of speech-to-text technology, advanced speech processing, and when necessary, human assistance to ensure transcription quality. To ensure privacy, our patent pending-process breaks all conversations into small, anonymous segments, maximizing conversational confidentiality.

Cogi will be showing off at Twiistup 5 on February 12, 3008.  This showcase will be one of a series that will focus on each Showoff.  Cogi is currently offering new users a 30 day free trial of the Cogi service. Cogi is available at www.cogi.com

The King of Stampede - A Fistful of Regret

Kotaku’s Owen Good aims at Steve Wiebe’s Stampede (on Atari 2600) record. Steve holds 3 records - 2 in the Donkey Kong world and 1 at #19 on the all time *recorded* scores for Stampede. Does he break the record? You decide - catch the video above.

 

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Creative way to land an interview

 

Seems that Rubicon Project [previous sponsor] is having an easy time attracting job seekers - as evident in this video.  Word on the street is that this is the level of effort that people are going through to get a foot in Rubicon’s door.  Don’t blame her - they have a strong business and a great culture.  We’ll see if this little YouTube stunt works.

Here are the Twiistup 5 Showoffs [Drum Roll]

Our judges reviewed more than 100 companies, the majority early-stage start-ups, all vying for the opportunity to hold one of ten coveted Showoff spots at Twiistup 5.  Here are their picks.

 

Causecast

Causecast, dubbed “a one stop philanthropy shop” by TechCrunch, is a platform where media, philanthropy, social networking, entertainment and education converge to serve a greater purpose.

 

Cogi

Cogi set out with a simple goal – give professionals a way to effortlessly recall and track everything in their important conversations through the use of an intuitive, browser-based service that seamlessly transcribes the important parts of conversation – the ‘COGent Ideas’ or Cogi.

 

eHow



More than 27 million people visit eHow.com each month to search more than 300,000 articles that are professionally written with clear and concise directions on how to do things. It also has a rapidly-growing library of articles created by eHow’s members and a large library of professional instructional videos.

 

FixYa 


FixYa empowers individuals to repair and improve upon their already-purchased possessions. The company also offers business services to manufacturers and retail businesses through its custom partnership opportunities.

 

GoGreenSolar

GoGreenSolar is global group of professionals dedicated to improve the distribution of renewable energy products, services and financing for people everywhere.

 

Meebo  



Meebo is a new communications and media company that’s re-writing the way people have conversations and communicate on the Web.

 

RoboDynamics

RoboDynamics is built by passionate people who want to use technology to shift the status quo and leverage state-of-the-art technology in robotics to change the way people live and work.

 

TheScene

The Scene connects individuals to the hottest places, people and events in their area. The Scene’s trendsetting community is on the pulse of nightlife and entertainment in various cities throughout the world.

 

Viewdle 

Viewdle is a facial-recognition powered digital media platform for indexing, searching and monetizing video assets.

 

Yammer

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’  

 

Each of these companies will demo their offerings at Twiistup 5 and are eligible for the Fan Favorite and Judge’s Choice awards.

Another huge thanks to our esteemed panel that devoted their time to select this awesome group of Showoffs.

Judges that will attend Twiistup 5:

Sarah Lacy, Jackie Peters, Peter Pham, Andrew Warner, Richard Wolpert, Will Jessup, Frank Gruber, Devlyn Steele and Brian Solis

 

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Twiistup 5 Judges

Sarah Lacy Andrew Warner Brian Solis Jackie Peters Will Jessup Richard Wolpert


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