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One of the vendors who sponsored yesterday’s Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon just happened to be Orbotix. They make a robotized plastic ball, known as Sphero, that President Obama recently took a few minutes to “drive” during a brief visit to … Continue reading →

As a non-contributing member of the Hacker League, a community devoting to preserving those late night hacks for posterity, I get the benefit of receiving their newsletter, the EventTransmitter(). It nicely summarizes hackathons in this area and across the US. … Continue reading →

Our friends over at CodeFab run the annual Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon. This year DevCamp Developers will gather during the weekend of April 28th to hack out mobile apps for IOS and Android. The theme this time around will be … Continue reading →

Could be. Our local technology press has lit up with a few announcements made at a conference held yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens President Nariman Farvardin is “committed” to setting up a technology incubator associated with the university … Continue reading →

While the rest of us were having our usual Saturday nights, hackers from the New York City metro area and from far away places, like New Haven, Philadelphia, and something called Boston, coded away the night at NYU’s Courant Institute … Continue reading →

I won’t pretend to have understood all of the 5-minute presentations given by members of this NYC hack community on their works-in-progress at last night’s Hack and Tell meetup. If you’re a developer or other interested party who wants to … Continue reading →

One of the side benefits of going to a hackNY event, such as this past weekend’s Fall Hackathon at NYU’s Courant Institute, is learning about all the astonishing public APIs that are available. Need face recognition? There’s Face.com’s web APIs … Continue reading →

Share With 911 was hatched earlier this month at NYC Startup Weekend. This crew is on a mission to capture and filter social media for any content related to an emergency or natural disaster, and then distribute it to first … Continue reading →

The last time I attended a NYC Startup Weekend at General Assembly I found myself wedged against the wall near the kitchen serving area with just enough elbow room to jot down a few notes. While it was less crowded … Continue reading →

This was a NYC-class hack gathering: a big stage set up in the large Pier 94 hangar, enormous video screens, an enthused audience, and more demos than there were lights on Broadway. With a long line of hackers waiting to … Continue reading →

I had a brief chat this afternoon with Alex one of the co-founders of BridesView, the wedding site that picked up an honorable mention at NYCSW last month. Alex told me he will be following through on his vision of … Continue reading →

Did I really hear 20 or so presentations in a little over 2 hours at the conclusion of NYC Startup Weekend? According to my barely legible notes, scribbled while standing up in the very crowded kitchen area in General Assembly’s … Continue reading →

There were all the signs of a long weekend of coding at the Converge Coworking space on the Kean University campus (Union, NJ). Stacks of empty pizza boxes, coffee cups, wireframe sketches scattered on desks, and developers staring at screen emulators … Continue reading →

Flickr Last night at New York Tech Meetup there were clear signs that the local tech ecosystem is growing and evolving. First, the NYTM organization itself is looking for a managing director to essentially oversee the affairs of the organization—events, … Continue reading →

I missed HackNY’s Fall hackathon event which was held at NYU’s Courant Institute over one long weekend earlier this month.  HackNY—it’s a non-profit—had the idea that entrepreneurship can be nurtured at the college level. HackNY is itself a kind of … Continue reading →