words and pictures by Brian Solis

Web 2.0 Expo New York was an incredible and highly educational experience. Aside from our current economic woes, the Web 2.0 landscape showed no signs of weakness or slowing. The ideas and vision shared during that week only demonstrated and portrayed a bright future for East Coast Web companies and those businesses and professionals who can benefit from their innovation.

Stephanie Agresta and I were invited to host a Techset party for Web 2.0 Expo attendees and we happily obliged.

The Techset celebrates the accomplishments, voices, and connections of those who are defining the new Web and as such, creating a unique, thriving, and valuable social economy.

In New York, we shared the spotlight with an incredible array of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and content creators who are collectively contributing to and defining Web 2.0 and beyond.

Thank you for being part of it…

I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

Eden, NY

Scott Beale of Laughing Squid

Gary Vaynerchuk and Tamar Weinberg

Stephanie Agresta, my lovely co-host

Meghan Asha

Khris Loux of JS-Kit

Jackie Peters

Loren Feldman and Chris Saad

Bryan Thatcher of Empressr

Michelle Oshen and Tamar Weinberg

Deb Schultz

Marifer Rodriguez

Julie Wohlberg

Richard Moross of Moo.com

Gregarious Greg Narain

Michelle Oshen and Loren Feldman

Melanie Notkin of SavvyAuntie.com

Brian Solis

James Im of HeyCosmo

Michelle DeForest

Stephanie Frasco

Nicole Simon and Bryan Pearson

Leora Israel

Rafe Needleman of CNET

Andrew Hyde and Aaron Strout of Mzinga

Oz Sultan and Brett Petersel

Valerie Russo

Janetti Chon

Tiffany Weller

Adriana Gascoigne of Hi5

Walt Ribeiro, Jim Louderback, Stephanie Agresta

Kristen Hull, Jonathan Dingman, Sarah Cooley, Paul Lewis, Tim Kress-Spatz

Selina McCusker

The pic that made Valleywag

Gregarious Greg Narain and Daniela Barbosa at the after party

After party – Charles Forman, David Karp, and Bill Cammack

After party – Nate Westheimer and Melissa Smolensky

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None of this would have been possible without the sponsors who made the event a resounding success. A very special thank you to HeyCosmo, Empressr, and Mzinga. Please thank them by visiting their sites to see if their products/services might be helpful to you.

HeyCosmo adds a pinch of awesome to your life. It becomes your private concierge and secretary available from the Web and the mobile phone for FREE! Want to find out if your friends are available to hang out this evening? Looking for a plumber who can check out your problem within the hour? Want to find an Italian restaurant in NYC to accommodate your party of five at 6:00pm? Deliver your messages and get a confirmation in 60 seconds or less. “Guaranteed.” New services include, Concierge for personal services, Blaster for voice SMS, Prankster, and TelEmoticon, which bringing emoticons to life.

Empressr is the first of its kind rich Internet application that provides users with the tools to create and share multimedia visual stories online. Armed with only a Web browser, users can combine photographs, artwork, text, music, videos, audio recordings and charts to produce anything from a simple slide show to a state-of-the-art business presentation. Empressr embraces the best of what the Internet has to offer with features such as asset tagging, Web mashups, embedded data and a comprehensive selection of rich media features. Once created, an empressr can be published to the community site or your social networking page, sent in an email and even embedded in a blog or wiki.

Mzinga is a leading provider of business social media solutions that drive growth, innovation, and learning. Its combination of highly scalable technology, rich domain expertise, and moderation services enables businesses to harness the collective intelligence of employees, customers, and partners to achieve tangible business results.

Marketing, customer service, and human resources professionals deploy Mzinga’s “pervasive community” solutions to achieve higher revenues, lower costs, greater workplace satisfaction, and improved customer support.

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For more pictures from Techset Web 2.0 Expo NY, please visit my album on Flickr.

Pictures from the Web 2.0 Expo Microsoft party are here.

Pictures from the Web 2.0 Expo after party are here.

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