Open Garden 2.0 Arrives
It was good to hear again from Open Garden. Last week they announced version 2.0 of their multi-hop, crowdsourced networking software. Those of us who …
NYC Media Lab’s Future Interfaces
I’m regretting missing NYC Media Labs sponsored get-together at Razorfish’s–holy Craig Kanarick!–HQ in midtown Manhattan. Spawned from a partnering of NYC Economic Development Corp, NYU-Poly, …
Piktochart: Infographics Made Really Easy
I’m not a designer and my web programming skills are minimal but I was able to make a somewhat informative infographic in just a few …
Microsoft Office’s Last Stand?
My friends over at BetterCloud, which provides Google Apps dashboard and management services, just finished surveying over 18,000 admins. These admins are obviously in a …
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 …
Spring is Here: TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013!
We received our invitation this afternoon to TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013. And that started us thinking about warmer weather and wandering around the aisles of …
Ukranian Startups
I couldn’t resist writing about this event that showed up in my inbox. Called “Falling in Love with Ukrainian Startups”, this get-together will involve “an …
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 …
Coders and Journalists Combine Forces at Hack Jersey
I had always thought there was something more than a little menacing about a stretch of the Garden State Parkway near where I live. Driving …
Hubbl Team Launches Spacebar: Context-based App Discovery
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2012, the Hubbl team was showing off Hmmm, which was a kind of social networking search app. Since then they’ve changed course …
Game Developer Hackathon at NYU
Beginning Friday evening on January 25, gamers will convene at the NYU Game Center to develop software in under 48 hours as part of Global …
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 …
Noted: just.me to Launch on January 21st
just.me is a mobile media sharing startup that first breached the surface briefly back in July. Just long enough for the tech press to learn …
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 …
New York Times Hack Day 2012
I’ve been looking for an excuse to do business in the The New York Times HQ on 8th Avenue in Manhattan for some time. With …
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 …