EU vs Facebook: Will Internet Content Have an Expiration Date?
Over on another channel, I’ve been writing about some of the grumblings towards the EU’s proposed changes to their landmark Data Protection Directive. The grumbles …
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Spotted by New Yorkers: Euro Travel Site Lands in US
Spotted by Locals is one of the many tips-for-travellers sites that have popped up in the last few years. As readers of this blog already …
NYC Grade Schools Compete in Lego Robot Competition
I couldn’t make it to MetroTech Center on Saturday to witness the FIRST Lego League Brooklyn Qualifier. But friends of TvB were there to let …
Interview with NYU-Poly’s Professor Keith Ross
Last month, I had the chance to interview Professor Keith Ross about his paper describing a novel profiling attack against Facebook users. The attack’s goal …
FYI: NJ’s First Journo-Coder Hackathon
And it will be taking place at Montclair State University, less than a Garden State Parkway exit away from TvB’s offices. Hack Jersey is being …
Bounty Hunters Unchained
While I was grappling with privacy issues swirling around data brokers and Facebook’s inadequate protection of minors, along comes a company called BusinessLeads to further …
NYU-Poly Researchers Find Weakness in Facebook’s Protections for Minors
Social media and our too-much-information online culture has brought new life to an old privacy vulnerability. The kind of privacy loophole I’m referring to has …
Kim Dotcom Files: Government Turns Cloud Provider into Object Lesson
After spirited discussions in the TvB offices, we’ve decided to introduce a new topic area on online privacy and data protection rights. In this inaugural …
Best Decision: Not Another Social Shopping Service!
Best Decision is a shopping recommendation service to help consumers find products based on more than just price and price and price. Its algorithms take …
And the Election Goes to NYC-based Vizzuality
Vizzuality is the NYC-startup behind the impressive interactive election results map on the Wall Street Journal’s site. To be more precise, their product CartoDB is …
FCC on the Job During Sandy: DIRS and Emergency Reporting
As someone residing near Sandy’s Shermanesqe march through NJ, I am glad that TvB’s offices were spared the worst. One lesson many of us learned …
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 …
Visual.ly Opens Infographic Marketplace
In August, we interviewed Visual.ly CEO Stew Langille to learn about his plans for an infographics marketplace. The idea was that you need an infographic …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Newspapers Are Dying. Can PressReader Save Them?
Browsing through all the local newspapers listed in the PressReader app on my iPad, I was impressed by the remaining practitioners of this 19-century technology. …
Samsung Galaxy S III: What’s Not to Like?
At my favorite barbecue joint near where I live, a customer complimented the owner on his pulled chicken sandwich combo. ‘What’s not to like,’ I …
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 …