The Long Meeting Infographic
All you need to know about long, rambling corporate meetings is captured in this infographic from our friends at SalesCrunch. I’ve often felt the meter …
Year: 2012
Hackers Come Through at Fifth hackNY Hackathon
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 …
Pivot Alert: Taap.it and Wanderfly
Software startups, unlike their industrial-age grandparents, don’t have to do a messy retooling of their factory to change product lines. They revamp their look-and-feel and …
InboundWriter: SEO for Small Biz and Other Content Creators
Friday morning I received a product tour of a very usable and useful SEO web service called InboundWriter. The name says it all. This San …
NYU to Offer ITP Program in Shanghai!
Last year New York University announced an agreement to create an independent research university in Shanghai. The first program to be offered at this new …
I Made This Infographic with Visual.ly’s Create
Last September I remember being excited by the great visual data presentations at O’Reilly’s Strata Summit. Somewhere around that time I also signed up for …
Demo Night at General Assembly: Neat Small Biz App Called Knack
One of the apps that got my attention at General Assembly’s Demo Night yesterday falls under the small business productivity tool category. It’s a genre …
Clicks-to-Call on iPad With Help From SIP
When a little free time opened up last week, I scanned my long-term task list to find “VoIP softphone for my iPad” was still unfinished …
NYU Game Center to Offer MFA
Who knew? NYU has a has an academic department devoted to the study of games. The NYU Game Center is connected with–not surprisingly–The Tisch School …
Low-Cost Presentation Software from SalesCrunch
I suppose the web-conferencing space deserves some disrupting. WebEx is now up on Mt. Olympus with the other Cisco gods, NetMeeting is a Microsoft-centric creation, …
Infinite Monkeys: Mobile Development for Humans with Chimp-Level Programming Skills
Can just about anyone develop a capable mobile app without any programming skills?. That is the question–or in pitch-speak, the real-world problem to solve–that several …
Hack and Tell is Back on February 29
New York City’s most hackalicious meetup is scheduled for the end of the month on Leap Day. It will have the usual format. In other …
FYI: ER Accelerator Accepting Applications for June 2012
NYC-based incubator ER Accelerator is accepting applications for their summer session. As a startup-to-be you get co-working space in their Times Square offices, mentoring (Fred …
What You Missed at NJIT’s Startupalooza
How about over 40 exhibitors split up between health care and IT, six semi-finalists asked to present and pitch, a panel of savvy judges, and …
BetterCloud’s DomainWatch Helps You Get Serious With Google Apps
Appropriately enough, David Politis, CEO and cofounder of BetterCloud, was phoning me from outside of Google’s mothership on 8th Avenue in NYC. We were chatting …
Google Apps: Tasks, Scheduling, & More for Small Biz
In a post last week on the brief history of personal information managers or PIMs, I suggested that productivity apps, like scheduling and task management …
Parking Nerds Gather at BMW’s Incubator Opening in NYC
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 …
Cisco Has 100K Twitter Followers!
They announced this social media milestone on their blog, The Platform. They’ve also analyzed the 100,000 profiles and associated tweets to come up with a …
Wunderkit: Return of the Personal Information Manager
A long time ago, in a magic kingdom called California, the simple but good townspeople were bored looking at their DOS-based command line and copying …
Car Buying Startup Tred Hits the Road
I first saw Grant Feek, Tred’s CEO, present his idea for an on-line auto buying startup at General Assembly’s Demo Night last month. The breakthrough …