Tales from Startup Alley: AirSig
AirSig gave one of my favoritest demos of the past several TechCrunch Disrupts. I met with the team behind this Taiwanese startup on Monday to …
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Mana Health: Analog Health Records Turned into Digital Dashboards
For years we’ve been hearing about the promise of electronic health records. I for one look forward to the day when I don’t have to …
Croosle: Cute Programming Kit with Sensor on Kickstarter
Croosle is a hardware-based Kickstarter project that we just learned about. Croosle originates from Ljubljana, Slovenia. According to Google Translate, lustna means cute in Slovenian …
BIME: Big Data Analysis at Your Fingertips
One of the more interesting apps I came across last month during Gigaom Structure 2014 is called BIME. Imported from France, BIME is the work …
FTC Takes Big Data Privacy Seriously
I’m still trying to catch up from last week’s Gigaom Structure conference, where I spent two days listening to the Big Data industrial complex yak …
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 …
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. …
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 …
TV Retransmission and Copyright Finally Make the Front Page
Back when I was spending more time writing about FCC regulatory issues, I came across a sleepy backwater known as television signal retransmission. Actually, there’s …
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, …
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 …
Metadata Inferencing Meme Goes Mainstream
Knock me down with a feather. As a techy blogging bystander, I’ve been watching as the non-technical media world figures out the implications of the …
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 …
Meddle Lowers the Bar for Corporate Content
According to the sages at Business Insider, social media doesn’t have a traditional ROI metric. This should surprise absolutely nobody. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t …
We Told You So: FBStalker and Mining Facebook Connections
In late 2012, we interviewed NYU-Poly’s Professor Keith Ross about his research into privacy loopholes in Facebook. Ross showed it was possible to work out …
Running with the Thought Police at Cyber Security Summit 2013
Two weeks ago I attended the Cyber Security Summit, a gathering of the cyber tribe that took place here in NYC. Sure there were a …
Metadata Chronicles: NYT Beginning to Realize the NSA Builds Social Attribute Network
It is interesting and vaguely rewarding in a bloggy kind of way to watch The New York Times start connecting the dots and realizing that …