I was in attendance at last night’s launch party for BMW i Ventures in Manhattan’s West Village. You can get a good idea of how …
New York City Economic Development Corporation announced the winners of its Big Apps Idea Contest.
These are not actual apps, but ideas for applications, which were submitted and then voted on by the public.
The wise panel of judges, including Clay Shirky, NYTM’s Dawn Barber, and BMW iVentures’ Alex Diehl, picked 10 winning cerebrations.Continue reading
I couldn’t make last night’s New York Tech Meetup in person, so I grabbed my laptop, settled into my sofa chair (after removing the cat), and watched the Livestream broadcast. Besides liking introspectr (more on them in a later post), for me the most significant part of the evening’s entertainment was the official launch of NYC BigApps 2.0 contest.
As with last year’s first-ever competition, developers work with New York City’s open-gov data sets to create applications. The “most creative, best implemented, and impactful applications”, as judged by a panel of industry experts and leaders, will compete for $20,000 in prizes. The submission period ends January 12.
So what data sets are available to developers?
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