Thank you so much to everyone who presented at our May Show & Tell Breakfast! We’ve definitely got some neat new tools to try out, and here’s the quick recap, in case you missed it!

Plancast.com

• Create an event, broadcast it to your followers.
• Works like Twitter for events. You have a feed that shows you not only events from your connections, but also events based on your location and interests.
• Subscribe to individual feeds; see where your friends are going and which events they are attending.
• Can import Meetup.com info.
• Can auto-create an event on your Outlook Calendar.
• BEST PART: Allows event planners to reach a wider base, consisting not just of their existing social connections, but also those who’ve specified particular interests.

EmpireAvenue.com

• Ties your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts into a game that awards points based on engagement.
• Invest in individuals that participate in social media and earn points. Like the stock market.
• See returns on your investment as they engage in the social media scene.
• The more involved and influential they become, the more “profit” you make.
• BEST PART: More points awarded for deeper engagement, encouraging meaningful social media interaction.

Kickstarter.com

• Funding platform for music, film, art, technology, design, food and publishing.
• Pitch your ideas to the masses, individuals in the community contribute funding for your projects.
• BEST PART: A world with more art.

MotionX-GPS iOS App for iPhone and iPad

• GPS App for the iPhone and iPad
• iPhone – $0.99 / iPad – $2.99
• Voice guidance can be purchased in-app for an additional $2.99/month or $19.99/year.
• BEST PART: In-app links to Facebook Places and Wikipedia. Share your location and get all the info about it from inside the app.

Google Realtime

• Crawls social media sources for the search term you provide
• Returns data in realtime
• Streams live twitter results of your search terms
• Easily set up a Google Alert from the search page to get emails for new mentions.

Google Fusion Tables

• Import data (CSV, XLS, Google Spreadsheet).
• Create visualizations of data through charts, graphs, Google Maps overlays.
• Can share with friends or make publicly available.
• BEST PART: Pretty graphs!!

2011 Tennessee NEXT Conference May 5-6 Nashville TN

• Event “focusing on technology based-economic development.”
• 28 tech startups will be presenting.
• Presentations are divided into 4 tracts of business types, each containing 7 businesses
• BEST PART: Memphis is represented by 7 different businesses, including StiQRd. You go guys!

Addictomatic.com

• Mashup of various social media feeds, blogs and search engines that return the latest information based on search term that you provide.
• Can customize and bookmark your own page.
• Only view information sources that you select.
• Produces a clean, simple user interface with a consolidated view of your favorite social media sources.
• BEST PART: The tagline – “Inhale the web.”

Thanks for coming out guys! See you at the next one on June 1st!

Tags | addictomatic, Empire Avenue, EmpireAvenue, Google Fusion, Google Realtime, GPS, Kickstarter, MotionX, NEXT conference, Plancast, stiQRd