Visual.ly to Launch Infographics Marketplace
You can spend a lazy summer afternoon in Visual.ly’s virtual gallery of infographics. This San Francisco-based startup is building a veritable info-Louvre. And there already …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Summer Travel Apps: A Closer Look at MyCityWay
Over the last few months I’ve come across a few travel-related apps in my journeys in the NY/NJ startup world. Now that I’m planning une …
My Coffee with Open Garden’s Micha Benoliel
One of the advantages of Manhattan’s Union Square area is the high-concentration of coffee shops, startups, WiFi, and visiting San Franciso-based entrepreneurs. On a recent …
NJIT Pitch Event Attracts Startups on the Verge
I was at New Jersey Institute of Technology last Thursday for another round of Startupalooza. At this NJ-centric pitchathon, startups of a mostly medical or …
Bloomberg TV Can Move into Comcast’s Nonexistent News Neigborhoods
Last summer, I wrote about the mind-numbingly tedious battle between Comcast and Bloomberg over whether Bloomberg’s news channel was being exiled to television Siberia in …
Yapp: Mobile App for Managing Events
Yapp was a mobile app I came across during one of my circumnavigations of the NY Tech Day show floor last week. This blog has …
David Lee of SV Angel Is a Theme Investor
I was at NYU’s Stern School last night to hear David Lee, founder of the super-angel investment company SV Angel. Together with Ron Conway, this …
Hoboken As Startup Hub?
Could be. Our local technology press has lit up with a few announcements made at a conference held yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens …
InboundWriter: SEO for Small Biz and Other Content Creators
Friday morning I received a product tour of a very usable and useful SEO web service called InboundWriter. The name says it all. This San …
Clicks-to-Call on iPad With Help From SIP
When a little free time opened up last week, I scanned my long-term task list to find “VoIP softphone for my iPad” was still unfinished …
Parking Nerds Gather at BMW’s Incubator Opening in NYC
I was in attendance at last night’s launch party for BMW i Ventures in Manhattan’s West Village. You can get a good idea of how …
EachScape Does Mobile App Generation Right
With Startup Weekend NYC Mobile rolling into town this weekend, I took advantage of a free demo from one of this event’s sponsors. Yesterday EachScape’s …
3rd Planet Launches 3D Travel to Katmandu
There’s no dearth of travel web sites on the Web. And 3D renderings of complex environments are commonplace in gaming environments. But putting the two …
Honestly, Now’s Advice Site is Open for Business
Honestly, Now is a personal advice site that I first saw demoed at Hoboken Tech Meetup in March. Started by Bob Petrie and Tereza Nemessany, …