And the results from the Concrete Canoe Competition are in!
Last weekend student chapters from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) met in the NY-NJ area to test their engineering prowess. At the downtown …
NY Tech Day 2013
The “science fair” for startups is back again. Last year NYTD corralled over 200 startups and other advanced hacks into the cozy Lexington Avenue Armory. …
Tabula is great at scraping tables from PDFs
If my hunt for numeric datasets leads me to a PDF file, I raise the white flag of surrender and close up shop for the …
Blerdology Comes to Rutgers Newark
What is blerdology? It’s a couple of things. It’s a social enterprise founded to promote the Black tech community. It was also formerly called #BlackGirlsHack. …
NYU ITP Summer Camp
It’s not too early to start thinking about summer activities–canoeing, lake swimming, hikes up to Bald Mountain, and building a gel electrophoresis box. The last …
New York State Unleashes open.ny.gov
New York State has been experimenting with Gov 2.0 initiatives for several years. In fact, our editor knocked out a few apps once-upon-a-time using Open …
Microsoft Office’s Last Stand?
My friends over at BetterCloud, which provides Google Apps dashboard and management services, just finished surveying over 18,000 admins. These admins are obviously in a …
Spring is Here: TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013!
We received our invitation this afternoon to TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013. And that started us thinking about warmer weather and wandering around the aisles of …
Ukranian Startups
I couldn’t resist writing about this event that showed up in my inbox. Called “Falling in Love with Ukrainian Startups”, this get-together will involve “an …
Game Developer Hackathon at NYU
Beginning Friday evening on January 25, gamers will convene at the NYU Game Center to develop software in under 48 hours as part of Global …
Noted: just.me to Launch on January 21st
just.me is a mobile media sharing startup that first breached the surface briefly back in July. Just long enough for the tech press to learn …
Interview with NYU-Poly’s Professor Keith Ross
Last month, I had the chance to interview Professor Keith Ross about his paper describing a novel profiling attack against Facebook users. The attack’s goal …
FYI: NJ’s First Journo-Coder Hackathon
And it will be taking place at Montclair State University, less than a Garden State Parkway exit away from TvB’s offices. Hack Jersey is being …
Mobixa is a Smartphone Reselling Adviser
Mobixa will price your out-dated and possibly damaged iPhone and then remind you when to sell it to take maximum advantage of your contract options. …
NYC Map of Coworking Spaces, Charging Stations
The New York Tech Meetup community has put together a map of shared office spaces and other support spots for the NYC area. With transformers …
Open Garden: $2 Million Seed Round
Our friends at Open Garden, the SF-based multi-hop networking startup, had some good news last week. In a seed round of funding, investors have showered …
Back to School Biz Apps: Our Favorite SMB Tools
We had a year’s worth of apps to look at for our semi-regular posting on useful small-medium biz tools. And after lots of espressos and …
Back at the Intertoobz: Vint Cerf on the ITU and the Internet
There’s been much scare-mongering about the upcoming ITU conference in which our Internet regulations will be up for debate. That’s not to say there is …
It’s About The Bike and Coding
Over the weekend, an email from the NY ALT.NET group, a local meetup devoted to out-of-the-box thinking on software, caught our attention. They received a …