NYU ITP Winter Show: Virtual Virtuousity
Even the iconic Wooden Mirror had gone completely virtual. Maybe it was me, but this wintry NYU ITP show seemed to be less physically endowed …
Honestly, Now’s Advice Site is Open for Business
Honestly, Now is a personal advice site that I first saw demoed at Hoboken Tech Meetup in March. Started by Bob Petrie and Tereza Nemessany, …
Hacking Government at Last Night’s Personal Democracy Event
I was listening to Occupy Wall Street’s Beka Economopolous, and I couldn’t help it: my mind wandered to pitches I’ve heard in the startup world, …
Hack Artisans Present at Hack and Tell
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 …
Demo Night at General Assembly: Tech Hootenanny
General Assembly Demo Night is an informal tech gathering in which this startup community’s members learn about new projects and launches hatched within its comfy …
Unleash App Inventor’s Small Biz Potential
A few weeks ago I received a review copy of Ralph Roberts’ “Google App Inventor” from the ebook publisher Packt Publishing. I took a quick …
US vs. AT&T: Pre-Trial Paper Wars
They argued over lists and schedules and experts witnesses and limitations placed on adverse witnesses and written versus oral testimony and perhaps the number of …
BridesView Unveiled
How quickly they grow up. First an idea is conceived at a long Startup Weekend, then the next thing you know the little tike is …
Steve Blank and the Startup Quest
You mean you never heard of Billy Durant, the real founder of General Motors? Durant was an early 20th century entrepreneur, whose series of pivots, …
App Inventor Nostalgia: It’s Still Pretty Good.
I haven’t thought about Google’s App Inventor since it was thrown off Sergey and Larry’s bus this past summer. Yes, it does live on as …
The 1-Hour Map: Hacks/Hackers NYC Inspires Me
I had great unobstructed front rows seats for last night’s Hacks/Hackers Meetup NYC. Exiled to the long waiting list, I instead watched a livestream of …
Transmedia 101: Frank Rose, Zombies, and Immersive Story Telling
I received a gentle introduction to transmedia storytelling at a meetup last night organized by a NYC group dedicated to spinning yarns around a digital …
R is Everywhere (Just Hidden)
After losing to Watson at IBM’s booth during the Predictive Analytics World conference, I stopped by Revolution Analytics digs to regain my strength. Revolution, by …
NJTM 10/17/2011: Fabulous Fabrice Grinda, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
NJ Tech Meetup is the new name for Hoboken Tech Meetup. Everything else has remained pretty much the same since my last visit to Stevens …
BillGuard Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding
Good news today for Yaron Samid and his company BillGuard. They’ve received $10 million in a Series B round of funding led by Vinod Khosla …
What You Missed at Singularity Summit 2011
Exhilarating, frustrating, muddled, tea-party-ish, revealing, revolting, liberal rationalist, and hyper-optimistic are just a few of the pithy comments I tapped into my magical (inside joke) …
Singularity Summit at the 92nd Street Y
I’ve been at more than a few singles event at the 92nd Street YMHA during my solo period. Just to be clear, the Singularity Summit …
Narus’s New CyberAnalytics App
Narus’s deep packet inspection technology has many applications. It’s ability to to scoop up packet details in real-time and make sense of conversations is ideal …
Kikin’s Smart Browser for the iPad
There’s a revealing quote in James B. Stewart’s piece on Steve Jobs in today’s New York Times. Stewart captures the essence of Job’s vision of …
PowerInbox: Social Media-centric Email Plugin
PowerInbox may just be the productivity booster you’ve been looking for. That is, if productivity is measured in terms of conveniently accessing social networks within …