I Made This Infographic with Visual.ly’s Create
Last September I remember being excited by the great visual data presentations at O’Reilly’s Strata Summit. Somewhere around that time I also signed up for …
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Demo Night at General Assembly: Neat Small Biz App Called Knack
One of the apps that got my attention at General Assembly’s Demo Night yesterday falls under the small business productivity tool category. It’s a genre …
NYU Game Center to Offer MFA
Who knew? NYU has a has an academic department devoted to the study of games. The NYU Game Center is connected with–not surprisingly–The Tisch School …
Low-Cost Presentation Software from SalesCrunch
I suppose the web-conferencing space deserves some disrupting. WebEx is now up on Mt. Olympus with the other Cisco gods, NetMeeting is a Microsoft-centric creation, …
Infinite Monkeys: Mobile Development for Humans with Chimp-Level Programming Skills
Can just about anyone develop a capable mobile app without any programming skills?. That is the question–or in pitch-speak, the real-world problem to solve–that several …
Hack and Tell is Back on February 29
New York City’s most hackalicious meetup is scheduled for the end of the month on Leap Day. It will have the usual format. In other …
FYI: ER Accelerator Accepting Applications for June 2012
NYC-based incubator ER Accelerator is accepting applications for their summer session. As a startup-to-be you get co-working space in their Times Square offices, mentoring (Fred …
What You Missed at NJIT’s Startupalooza
How about over 40 exhibitors split up between health care and IT, six semi-finalists asked to present and pitch, a panel of savvy judges, and …
BetterCloud’s DomainWatch Helps You Get Serious With Google Apps
Appropriately enough, David Politis, CEO and cofounder of BetterCloud, was phoning me from outside of Google’s mothership on 8th Avenue in NYC. We were chatting …
Parking Nerds Gather at BMW’s Incubator Opening in NYC
I was in attendance at last night’s launch party for BMW i Ventures in Manhattan’s West Village. You can get a good idea of how …
Wunderkit: Return of the Personal Information Manager
A long time ago, in a magic kingdom called California, the simple but good townspeople were bored looking at their DOS-based command line and copying …
Car Buying Startup Tred Hits the Road
I first saw Grant Feek, Tred’s CEO, present his idea for an on-line auto buying startup at General Assembly’s Demo Night last month. The breakthrough …
Best Piece I Read on PIPA/SOPA
This morning legislative leaders in both House and Senate announced they would be postponing votes on their respective anti-piracy acts. There’s little doubt that some …
EachScape Does Mobile App Generation Right
With Startup Weekend NYC Mobile rolling into town this weekend, I took advantage of a free demo from one of this event’s sponsors. Yesterday EachScape’s …
NYC at Center of 3D Printing and Craft Manufacturing
Last night within Google’s cavernous 8th Avenue offices, NY Technology Council assembled a few startups at an event to showcase “cutting-edge technology.” Since this was …
3rd Planet Launches 3D Travel to Katmandu
There’s no dearth of travel web sites on the Web. And 3D renderings of complex environments are commonplace in gaming environments. But putting the two …
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 …
SkanzJr Disrupts Show-and-Tell
I sometimes think that social networking is wasted on the wrong demographics. Every teen and young adult lives in a Facebook networking haze, and professional …
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, …