After the pitches on Friday night, thirteen groups formed and started turning their ideas into reality. Some 48 hours later, they were back to show what they had done. Here, Niten Luthra provides a great overview of the pitch night:

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Launching at Startup Weekend:

DIALSOCIAL

Using the Twilio API, DialSocial allows you to create and host your own “party line” (remember those?!) for free. Business or pleasure, chat with like minded people from around the world.

VERDANT EVENT

Verdant Event created the scheduling system used for the Sunday night Startup Weekend presentations! Their primary focus is around green events, and enabling the communities that search for them.

CADUCES

Caduces aims to help maintain your entire family’s health, wellness, and fitness information all in one place by providing a “virtual safety deposit box” which contains your  ”family health genealogy”.

TWEETLEADERS.COM

Tweet Leaders seeks to identify who are the most influential people on twitter for any given topic, effortlessly providing the top ten for any search term based on conversations and mentions in the both the public and private domain. Still looking for a video of this great presentation!

FOOTRAFFIC

FooTraffic provides a means to monetize location based networks such as FourSquare by providing a self-service couponing system for local businesses.

BETTER TALKING

Better talking allows you to hone your interview skills through sharing your responses to an automated stock interview with your friends, and gathering their feedback. See it action here:

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TICKETS SUCK!

We hate getting parking tickets as much as the next guy, which is why this system for automatically reminding you to fill the meter using twitter is so awesome. In their own words:

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GIRLSWHOLIKE.US

Looking for fun? For stimulating conversation? Socially awkward and need tech to help you score? This mobile platform with fun social games could help you then!

INTELLIMED

Intellimed uses Twilio to contact patients and remind them to take their pills.

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STACYPLEASE

Stacy Please is an automated assistant which can remind you of important actions at a time of your choosing.

DRESS ME, SUE!

Dress Me Sue allows to catalogue your outfits and save your favorite combinations to use again. Perfect for the stylish beau about town!

CHORELY

Chorely brings together geolocation and reminders to ensure that you never again forget to pick up the dry cleaning whilst you’re in the neighborhood! See their presentation here:

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HANDOFF.ME

Handoff Me provides a DNS based means to balance between two separate service providers for your web app:

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And The Winners Are…

It was a tough decision, but our crack team of tried and tested entrepreneurs were able to  choose four winners.

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The winners were:

4th PLACE – Dress Me Sue

3rd PLACE – FooTraffic

2nd PLACE – Better Talking

1st PLACE – Tweet Leaders

Congratulations go out to both the winners and all who participated. Most of the companies launched created dedicated twitter accounts for their projects, which we have add to a list here. Go follow it!

Look forward to seeing you all at the next event!

Springbase is a platform for rapid web application development, helping you build rich web apps with no servers to configure or software to install. We can’t wait to see what the people at Startup Weekend can do with it! Check out our website to get a sneak peek at our platform. Need a ticket to the event? Check out our blog.
Springbase – Web Application Development

Jason Cooper, App Engine Developer Advocate & Mike Repass, App Engine Product Manager will be joining us over the weekend to help teams out! Google App Engine is obviously a great tool for startups over the weekend, and these guys can ensure that teams are utilizing them to their fullest!

Startup Weekend is excited to announce it is partnering with the guys at DEMO to help further our efforts to provide new and valuable opportunities to our community!

DEMO is one of the foremost tech conferences in the world. What types of companies come from DEMO?

vmware, Salesforce.com, Tivo, Bitgravity, Symantec, Java, E*Trade, Boingo, palm, six apart, and more!

Why is this cool?

Successful Startup Weekend companies will get “fast track” consideration with the directors of DEMO for the Alpha Pitch segment of the event for early stage startups! Stay tuned for other great opportunities to come from this partnership!

Already a Startup?

Get the Demo Facts, and Attend DEMOspring 2010 in California March 21st-23rd.

Attending will be:

Jim Parkinson – Cloud Computing VP

Sriram Natarajan – PHP integration in Web Stack

Shanti Subramanyam – AMP stack, ruby, etc.

Arun Gupta – GlassFish

Marina Fisher – Sun Startup Essentials Web Architect

Rajesh Ramchandani – Sun Startup Essentials and Cloud Computing Biz Dev

Don’t miss the amazing opportunity to mingle, learn, and build a startup with the help of these guys!

Twilio is teaming up with us for the weekend of November 13th through 22nd to encourage innovation with voice enabled applications, using our open API. If your team uses Twilio in any way over the course of the weekend, you’re eligible to win Netbooks for your team members.

How It Works

Startup Weekend teams range in size, so we will award the winning team with up to six Netbooks, along with other Twilio goodies. Startup Weekend teams in six cities will compete for the chance to win, and we’ll be blogging and tweeting about your projects throughout th weekend and beyond.

Get Motivated

Brainstorm Ideas for Your Project Pitch

Do you have a laundry list of projects you’ve been meaning to build, or are you drawing a blank? Either way, its time to begin generating ideas so you can decide what to pitch on Friday night.

Read About Past Twilio Projects at Startup Weekend

• ShoutNow
• Monkey Calling
• Escape My Date

Thanks to isocket for signing up as a sponsor for this Startup Weekend! isocket is looking to expand their network and to possibly recruit & hire some developers!

“Introducting the first commission-free ad platform! isocket is an exciting new application that makes it easier to sell any kind of advertising, such as website banner, mobile video or out-of-home digital sign.”