Hubbl Team Launches Spacebar: Context-based App Discovery
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2012, the Hubbl team was showing off Hmmm, which was a kind of social networking search app. Since then they’ve changed course …
NYC Grade Schools Compete in Lego Robot Competition
I couldn’t make it to MetroTech Center on Saturday to witness the FIRST Lego League Brooklyn Qualifier. But friends of TvB were there to let …
Bounty Hunters Unchained
While I was grappling with privacy issues swirling around data brokers and Facebook’s inadequate protection of minors, along comes a company called BusinessLeads to further …
NYU-Poly Researchers Find Weakness in Facebook’s Protections for Minors
Social media and our too-much-information online culture has brought new life to an old privacy vulnerability. The kind of privacy loophole I’m referring to has …
New York Times Hack Day 2012
I’ve been looking for an excuse to do business in the The New York Times HQ on 8th Avenue in Manhattan for some time. With …
Kim Dotcom Files: Government Turns Cloud Provider into Object Lesson
After spirited discussions in the TvB offices, we’ve decided to introduce a new topic area on online privacy and data protection rights. In this inaugural …
Uberconference Drives A Stake Through Legacy Audio Conferencing
Uberconference, the TechCrunch Disrupt winner, opened the doors to their visual audio conferencing service early last month. After a quick trial of it yesterday in …
Best Decision: Not Another Social Shopping Service!
Best Decision is a shopping recommendation service to help consumers find products based on more than just price and price and price. Its algorithms take …
And the Election Goes to NYC-based Vizzuality
Vizzuality is the NYC-startup behind the impressive interactive election results map on the Wall Street Journal’s site. To be more precise, their product CartoDB is …
FCC on the Job During Sandy: DIRS and Emergency Reporting
As someone residing near Sandy’s Shermanesqe march through NJ, I am glad that TvB’s offices were spared the worst. One lesson many of us learned …
CallApp’s Social Trawling: Too Much Information?
CallApp was the “social dialtone” smartphone enhancement that got many of us excited at TechCrunch NYC a few months back. In covering telecom, I should …
Pride & Prejudice and Cucumbers: Ken Perlin Has Ideas for Education
At some point during Ken Perlin’s talk at the NYU Game Center last week, I was gazing at a screen containing a virtual scroll of …
Visual.ly Opens Infographic Marketplace
In August, we interviewed Visual.ly CEO Stew Langille to learn about his plans for an infographics marketplace. The idea was that you need an infographic …
Observing the Appverse with Hubbl
Hubbl refers to itself as a “smart telescope for spotting apps.” I like the whole astronomy concept. But I think a candy metaphor would work …
Ad Week Experience: Measuring Social Media’s Basic Particles
This past week I took a brief tour of the Advertising Week Experience held at The Times Center. That was place to be to learn …
UberConference Unleashed
UberConference is finally out of private beta and ready to stomp on some legacy audio conferencing ant hills. Remember UberConference? They won TechCrunch Disrupt NYC …
Knack: Practical Web App Builder for Small Biz
First hatched at General Assembly’s Demo Night in March, NYC-based Knack recently launched a beta version of its “Microsoft Access on steroids” concept. After trying …
Travel Apps: Who Needs ‘Em!
Oui, you can still have an amazing vacation without constantly conferring with the digital equivalent of Passepartout on your Droid or iPhone. If the city …
Out of the Office
Blogging has been a little light lately due to an unforeseen event involving my MacBook and a cup of coffee. I now know how incredibly …
Your Party Hub Gets it Started
After just returning from a few days of vacationing, I can attest to the powerful health benefits of a good party. It relieves stress, lowers …