NYU-Poly Incubators Are Certified
This is really, truly our last post of the year. And for our finale … NYU-Poly’s incubators have officially received a New York State Business …
Year: 2013
2013: Privacy Makes a Comeback
My last post of the year, more or less, is a short toast to Privacy. I raise my glass to wish Privacy better health in …
SF-Based SixDoors Has a Localism Manifesto
I’m not sure what to make of a startup that has its own manifesto. But in San Francisco, which online shopping service SixDoors calls home, …
Web Design Ecosystem Infographic
Our friends at Webydo sent us an infographic explaining the entire web design industry. Hard to believe, but they’ve done it (see below). In short: …
Spotted by Locals NYC App is Free!
At least till December 15. At TvB, Spotted by Locals is our “essential travel aid.” We’re excited that all the information that the SbL crew …
Briefly Noted: Cynaps Goes Indiegogo
Thank you crowdsource funding sites for acting as virtual patrons to this recent renaissance of hardware and device hacking. Based on watching the occasional gadget …
TvB’s Thanksgiving Leftovers
Like everyone else living in the United States of Shopping, we were bombarded with Black Friday offers for massive one-day only price reductions. But our …
Metadata Inferencing Meme Goes Mainstream
Knock me down with a feather. As a techy blogging bystander, I’ve been watching as the non-technical media world figures out the implications of the …
KPass gets off the ground
Last week, I had a chance to chat briefly with Dan Nelson, whom I met at Hatch Match 2013 while he was in mid-pitch for …
Talent Garden: Coworking Space, Italian-style, to Come to NYC
Talent Garden is an Italian coworking network–locations in Milan, Genoa, Turin and 4 other cities– that has plans to open up a NYC branch in …
CartoDB: Online Mapping Class for the Directionally Challenged
CartoDB is high-productivity software that lets non-cartographers generate maps from tables. NYC-based Vizzuallity is the startup behind the product. Their APIs have been used during …
NYU Game Center on Kickstarter
Did you know there’s a Kickstarter page devoted to projects launched by NYU Game Center students? Game Center kids have a pretty good track record …
Meddle Lowers the Bar for Corporate Content
According to the sages at Business Insider, social media doesn’t have a traditional ROI metric. This should surprise absolutely nobody. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t …
Friday Afternoon Fun: Sk8trakr is Nike+ for Skateboarders
That’s how this Buenos Aires-based startup describes their prototype device. Their Co-founder, Guido Marucci Blas, contacted us recently to say they’re in an early stage …
Hatch Match 2013: Chez Hatchery was Booked
The old rule that everyone wants to shop in a busy market or eat in an already crowded restaurant would seem to hold true for …
We Told You So: FBStalker and Mining Facebook Connections
In late 2012, we interviewed NYU-Poly’s Professor Keith Ross about his research into privacy loopholes in Facebook. Ross showed it was possible to work out …
The Hatchery Seeks Startups at Hatch Match 2013
The Hatchery is perhaps better known for their monthly “Are you serious” events where startups try out their pitches in front of the public with …
Running with the Thought Police at Cyber Security Summit 2013
Two weeks ago I attended the Cyber Security Summit, a gathering of the cyber tribe that took place here in NYC. Sure there were a …
Tangeez Goes Kickstarter: interactive light emitting blocks for the masses
Back in July, while randomly wandering the aisles of CE Week, I came across a stack of soothing light-emitting pucks that captured my attention and …
Metadata Chronicles: NYT Beginning to Realize the NSA Builds Social Attribute Network
It is interesting and vaguely rewarding in a bloggy kind of way to watch The New York Times start connecting the dots and realizing that …