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 …
Category: Social Studies
NYC Map of Coworking Spaces, Charging Stations
The New York Tech Meetup community has put together a map of shared office spaces and other support spots for the NYC area. With transformers …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Six Questions for Visual.ly’s Stew Langille
Stew Langille hatched the idea for Visual.ly while pondering a better way to display consumer spending data during the waning days of his marketing stint …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Harvard Business Review Takes on Email
The HBR Blog Network is where we go to gain insights from our business elite. Their guest bloggers can be counted on to dispense advice …
ITP Shanghai to Begin in 2013
FYI: New York University’s ITP has moved back its plans to set up shop in Shanghai by a year. Midori Yasuda, ITP’s admission coordinator, said …