Cogi , a service which helps you capture meetings and phone calls in text transcripts, scored the judge’s award (I was one of the judges);  the other firms were Causecast , eHow , FixYa , GoGreenSolar , Meebo , RoboDynamics , TheScene , Totspot , Viewdle , and Yammer . ...Tags: In what was a remarkable turnout–given the horrible economy we’re in–there were more than a thousand people at last night’s Twiistup 5 event. Twiistup 5 –the brainchild of Mike Macadaan–lets startups show off their products to the crowd in a very non-conference

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 . Yammer - Yammer is a tool for making This video will show you the sartups that will show off at the next Twiistup , an event which highlights promising startups. I

eHow = WikiHow + actual relevance in real life Yammer = progress reports + your boss + Twitter Still trying to figure out whether Twiistup 5 will be worth going to? Yes, anyone who’s anyone in tech will be going — just check out some of the judges — but are you wondering whether the ten Showoffs spots will make it worth attending on Feb. 12?