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 …
Brief note on Nuvenote: French Medical Records Startup
I couldn’t resist an email with the subject line of “Nuvenote, the promising French eHealth startup is skyrocketing in India.” Curious, I took a brief …
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 …
Hack Jersey’s Open Data Summit at Montclair State
Journalists, Gov. 2.0 advocates, computer-aware reporters, and citizen watchdog groups will be gathering at Montclair State University on May 15. This Open Data Summit will …
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 …
Kpass: Beta Launch of COPPA Parent Verification
Kpass contacted us last week to show their verification process that lets children’s web sites meet COPPA rules. Brief refresher: The Children’s Online Privacy Protection …
NYU ITP Summer Camp 2014
It’s not too early to be thinking about summer plans. True, it’s March and there’s still snow on the ground. But by June it will …
Advertisements for Myself: My Phishing and Data Breach eBook
I wrote an incredibly readable eBook on the most important challenge facing humankind IT. Give me ten minutes of your time, and by the end of “Anatomy of a Phish” you’ll have a complete grasp
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 …
Investigative Data Parsing Courtesy of Hacks/Hackers
I haven’t been to a Hacks/Hackers event in a good long time. The sessions are ostensibly geared towards journalists and investigative reporters–of which I’m neither–but …
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. …
Small Thank You Letter to Koding
A few years back there was a free and all powerful web development environment started by the brothers Yasar–Devrim and Sinan. It was a great …
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 …
NYU-Poly Incubators Are Certified
This is really, truly our last post of the year. And for our finale … NYU-Poly’s incubators have officially received a New York State Business …
2013: Privacy Makes a Comeback
My last post of the year, more or less, is a short toast to Privacy. I raise my glass to wish Privacy better health in …
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, …