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 …
Category: @NYC
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 …
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 …
Open Garden: $2 Million Seed Round
Our friends at Open Garden, the SF-based multi-hop networking startup, had some good news last week. In a seed round of funding, investors have showered …
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 …
Back to School Biz Apps: Our Favorite SMB Tools
We had a year’s worth of apps to look at for our semi-regular posting on useful small-medium biz tools. And after lots of espressos and …
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 …
Ivy Entrepreneurship: Princeton’s eLab Demo Day
They do have ambitious plans at Princeton. Yesterday I attended presentations made by the first graduates of the Keller Center‘s eLab, which is a student …
It’s About The Bike and Coding
Over the weekend, an email from the NY ALT.NET group, a local meetup devoted to out-of-the-box thinking on software, caught our attention. They received a …
eLab Demo Day at Princeton!
Princeton University’s eLab is a technology incubator at the Keller Center. Students apply for a 10-week program in which they are teamed with a faculty …
Biotech in NYC? Yes, it exists.
I was in Manhattan yesterday at NYU-Poly’s incubator space on Varick Street attending a meetup organized by NYC Bio. They have the modest goal of …
Matrix Audio’s Bluetooth Speakerphone Makes a Difference
While I was wandering the aisles of CEA last month, I was attracted to Matrix Audio’s booth and their collection of shiny baubles. What at …
Travel Apps Battle for Tourist’s Soul: Tripl vs. Spotted by Locals
As part of my planning for a trip to an iconic European city in the fall, I’ve also been examining some travel apps. It’s peak …
BetterCloud’s FlashPanel Available in Apps Marketplace
Back in May, we got to try out FlashPanel, an email and user provisioning app for the Google Apps environment. We liked the Googley feel …
Energy Comparison Shopping Comes to NJ
Before the July 4th break and the ensuing heat-wave, I had the good fortune to talk with Phil Nevels, co-founder of Chicago-based Power2Switch. While at …
NJ-based iSpeech Has a Great Speech Platform
iSpeech is a Newark-based–yes, you read that right–startup that has created a very useable and practical cloud-based text-to-speech and speech-rec platform. I hadn’t really thought …