What is IgniteNYC? It's an ongoing, cutting-edge speaker series, with a catch: the speaker's slides change automatically, every five seconds. The speaker has to keep up. That's just the sort of challenge ZocDoc's very own Karsten Vagner can't turn down. Check out a video of his great talk after the jump.

Last week, we got to participate in an exciting panel discussing Social Media at the NYU Stern School of Business for New York Social Media Week. What's so exciting about it, you ponder?

Watch ZocDoc CEO Cyrus Massoumi present at the NY Tech Meetup on May 13, 2008. Donning bright orange scrubs, Cyrus talked about the company's mission to help patients easily find a doctor or dentist and make an appointment instantly online. Audience members gave ZocDoc a friendly reception and began Twittering instantly, calling ZocDoc "impressive," "the best" and "a great example of the mainstream web." Check out some of their comments here. A lively Q&A covered everything from the business model, roll-out plan & the patient first ethics of the business - watch yourself.

Today at 10:45 am PST our service went live at TechCrunch40, where ZocDoc was selected as one of the 40 hottest startups globally by Michael Arrington and his team. Not a small compliment, considering they have reviewed thousands of companies in the TechCrunch Blog (one of the top 3 tech blogs worldwide).