Kpass: Beta Launch of COPPA Parent Verification
Kpass contacted us last week to show their verification process that lets children’s web sites meet COPPA rules. Brief refresher: The Children’s Online Privacy Protection …
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NYU ITP Summer Camp 2014
It’s not too early to be thinking about summer plans. True, it’s March and there’s still snow on the ground. But by June it will …
UberConference Meets Google Hangouts
San Francisco-based UberConference is the audio bridge service that lets you know who is talking. Amazing, right? It was started by the same folks who …
Artisan: A/B Testing for Business Types
I saw Philly-based Artisan at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, and remember their easy approach to A/B testing for mobile apps. Since then at my day …
Investigative Data Parsing Courtesy of Hacks/Hackers
I haven’t been to a Hacks/Hackers event in a good long time. The sessions are ostensibly geared towards journalists and investigative reporters–of which I’m neither–but …
Favorites from Legal Hacker’s Hackathon
The folks over at the Hacker League have collected all the projects from the multi-city Legal Hackathon from two weekends ago. My view of these …
Uwatela: Dolf Veenvliet’s Abstract Art Construction Kit
Remember Entoforms? Back in 2011, I wrote about Dutch artist and maker Dolf Veenvliet’s 3-D plastic lifeforms, which looked like something that might have been …
What I missed at the Legal Hackers’ Hackathon
I’ve been busy with other projects so I was unable to make the New York Legal Hackers second annual hackathon this past weekend in Brooklyn. …
Small Thank You Letter to Koding
A few years back there was a free and all powerful web development environment started by the brothers Yasar–Devrim and Sinan. It was a great …
Bruce Schneier at CUNY Crypto Conference: “We’ve made bulk collection too easy”
Like everyone else following the news about the Snowden papers, I’m aware of the basic facts. Bulk collection of phone metadata, and taps on Yahoo …
NYU-Poly Incubators Are Certified
This is really, truly our last post of the year. And for our finale … NYU-Poly’s incubators have officially received a New York State Business …
2013: Privacy Makes a Comeback
My last post of the year, more or less, is a short toast to Privacy. I raise my glass to wish Privacy better health in …
SF-Based SixDoors Has a Localism Manifesto
I’m not sure what to make of a startup that has its own manifesto. But in San Francisco, which online shopping service SixDoors calls home, …
Web Design Ecosystem Infographic
Our friends at Webydo sent us an infographic explaining the entire web design industry. Hard to believe, but they’ve done it (see below). In short: …
Spotted by Locals NYC App is Free!
At least till December 15. At TvB, Spotted by Locals is our “essential travel aid.” We’re excited that all the information that the SbL crew …
Briefly Noted: Cynaps Goes Indiegogo
Thank you crowdsource funding sites for acting as virtual patrons to this recent renaissance of hardware and device hacking. Based on watching the occasional gadget …
TvB’s Thanksgiving Leftovers
Like everyone else living in the United States of Shopping, we were bombarded with Black Friday offers for massive one-day only price reductions. But our …
KPass gets off the ground
Last week, I had a chance to chat briefly with Dan Nelson, whom I met at Hatch Match 2013 while he was in mid-pitch for …
Talent Garden: Coworking Space, Italian-style, to Come to NYC
Talent Garden is an Italian coworking network–locations in Milan, Genoa, Turin and 4 other cities– that has plans to open up a NYC branch in …
CartoDB: Online Mapping Class for the Directionally Challenged
CartoDB is high-productivity software that lets non-cartographers generate maps from tables. NYC-based Vizzuallity is the startup behind the product. Their APIs have been used during …