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 …
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 …
NJ Startup ThinkNum Rethinks Econ Charts
Can a motivated Every(wo)man without a deep financial background analyze some of the great economic themes of the day– inflation, government spending, EU austerity? Princeton …
Marketing Meets News: NewsWhip’s Spike
Does the world really need another news site or app? Sometimes it’s hard to see how any value can be added to the already well …
Back from vacation. And by the way, Spotted by Locals is an essential travel aid.
I’ve been off the grid, more or less, for the last two weeks during an extended holiday in Madrid and surrounding countryside– Castilla y Leon …
Snapshot of PhotoShelter
As a forever-at-the-amateur-level photographer, I generally hate looking at the work of professional photographers. The photo pros make me realize how really good they are. …
Webydo Brings Rapid Website Design to SMBs
I still get asked from small-business owners, writers, marketers, and other self-employed types about the “best software” to build a web site. And over the …
Paul Revere’s Random Ride: Metadata And Social Attribute Networks
Like everyone else, I read Kieran Healy’s post on Paul Revere, the mostly highly connected person in Boston circa 1770. Healy, a sociologist at Duke, …
Brief Note on Shifu: Checklists for the Lazy
For some, mostly computer illiterate but highly-educated professionals, Atwal Gawade’s The Checklist Manifesto is their first introduction to checkboxes, at least as they relate to …
MyCityWay: Context is King!
Last week, I synced up with MyCityWay’s CEO and cofounder Puneet Mehta. To refresh your memory, MyCityWay is a former winner of the NYC Big …
UK Joins Other EU Members on Google Privacy Legal Action
Last week, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office or ICO revealed that it had asked Google to revise its privacy policy to conform to their Data …
Plug: Teeny File Server Debuts on Kickstarter
Who needs the cloud when you have a device like the Plug? Made by a US-French company called Cloud Guys, Plug mirrors personal computer files …
Brief Note on Temboo: API Assistant
Temboo is a NYC-based startup that I first heard about at NY Tech Day last year. I knew it had something to do with those …
CE Week 2013: Beyond Gadgetry
I think this is my third year attending CE Week’s NYC event, and of course three is a charm. Sure there were the usual big …
Right to be Forgotten Hits Speed Bump: Google Not a Data Controller
The European Court of Justice ruled today that Google is not obligated to remove links that point to inaccurate or stale content. The case originally …
CE Week 2013 Comes to NYC
CE Week, the annual showcase of consumer electronica, is coming to town June 26-27 at the Altman Center, on 18th Street in Manhattan. It’s a …
California Erasin’: State Law Lamely Addresses Right to be Forgotten
While the EU Parliament may approve Right to Be Forgotten regulations this summer, closer to home, US social media companies have a smaller front in …
One More Look at the BlackBerry Z10
I packed up my review version last week of the Verizon BlackBerry Z10 somewhat reluctantly. I enjoyed gliding and sliding around on the button-less Z10, …