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 …
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Mutual Force: New Marketplace for Knowledge Transfer
New Jersey-based Mutual Force pinged us the other day about their upcoming beta service that pays former employees for their institutional wisdom. We have been …
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 …
More Audio from The Singularity Summit
I finally got around to putting together another track of audio from The Singularity Summit.
NYU ITP Winter Show
NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program exists at that oft-referred-to intersection of art and technology. At their semi-annual shows, the public gets to see how students have …
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, …
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 …
FanGager Continues to Engage
FanGager has added over 100 new engagements to its repertoire of games, videos, and other hooks for measuring user interactions with a brand. This latest …
Creeepy Halloween iPhone App
Rob in San Francisco sent us a link to an interactive, scary, and–dare I say it–immersive iPhone app. We didn’t get chance to test its …
BridesView’s Wedding Dessert Photos!
Fall: rain, cold mornings, oatmeal for breakfast, criminal complaint against Raj Gupta showing yet again an out of control Wall Street culture, leaf-clogged drains, and …
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 …
Wanderfly: Around the World in One Minute
To celebrate on-line travel suggestion site Wanderfly’s first birthday, this startup put together a 60-second travelogue based on pictures taken from around the world.
More on Watson for Health Care
Watson, the Jeopardy playing super-computer, is out to take on new challenges. Rather than reworking its algorithms for a chance to compete on say “Deal …
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) …
Live From Singularity Summit 2011
My seatmate, who had been to previous Singularity events, assured me that my mind would be blown away. He was quite right.And I’ve only been …
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 …