Monthly Archives: September 26, 2011
Guardian’s Simon Rogers Explains The New Journalism
I was at the O’Reilly Strata Summit yesterday, which is a gathering of data miners, visualization geeks, CIOs, data base developers and hackers, journalists, and NoSQL evangelists. Journalists?! I noticed that the afternoon session would have a talk by Simon … Continue reading
CapitolJS Event: Ok, JavaScript is … Awesome!
This non-developer probably won’t be using any of the deep JavaScript knowledge that was being radiated by the speakers at the CapitolJS conference held in Washington yesterday. Still I was very have glad to have been there, immersed in the … Continue reading
Instant iPhone CMS with ShoutEm
At a recent pitch event sponsored by The Hatchery, I thought one of the entrepreneurial pitchers received short shrift from the some of the judges. It ain’t easy having to explain what your company is about, and in the case … Continue reading
PowerInbox: Social Media-centric Email Plugin
PowerInbox may just be the productivity booster you’ve been looking for. That is, if productivity is measured in terms of conveniently accessing social networks within your email service rather than —gads!—having to switch to another browser tab to respond to … Continue reading
Baton Rouge, LA: AT&T’s Kind of Town
The FCC divides the country up, in terms of wireless spectrum, into CMAs or Cellular Market Areas. In their recent suit against AT&T, the US Department of Justice gauged the effect of a T-Mobile acquisition across the top 100 CMAs, … Continue reading
Pitch Night at Ultra Light Startups: All Hail Daily Secret
I grabbed my slice of pizza and then sat down to an evening’s worth of pitches hosted by Ultra Light Startups at Microsoft’s swanky digs in midtown Manhattan. Founded by Graham Lawlor, Ultra Light creates “an ecosystem for startups to … Continue reading
Delicious Small Biz Tool: Automato
Since we’re coming to the end of the local growing season here in NJ, it’s good to know there’s a way to extend your enjoyment of a truly tasty pomodoro into the fall and winter months. This enjoyment though will … Continue reading
Live From MissionFifty
I came back to MissionFifty yesterday during its extended open-house week—i.e, it’s free—to use Hoboken’s first coworking space as my base of operations for the day. I got work done, handled a few phone calls, took those pictures I promised … Continue reading
Hoboken’s MissionFifty Goes Online
The MissionFifty coworking space opened its doors yesterday to the public. I stopped by for a late afternoon visit to find workers busily finishing up this makeover of what was a manufacturing loft. Even in its almost-complete state, you can … Continue reading













