Hack Jersey 2.0, March 28 – 29
Data journalists, coders, and designers will be re-convening for another edition of Hack Jersey. Teams will meet at Montclair State University’s Center for Cooperative Media. …
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Pop-up Coworking Space in Newark
Newark may have lost the Bears (and are still paying the debt on the stadium), but as one proverbial door closes, another one opens. Brick …
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 …
NJ Startup ThinkNum Rethinks Econ Charts
Can a motivated Every(wo)man without a deep financial background analyze some of the great economic themes of the day– inflation, government spending, EU austerity? Princeton …
Brick City Blerds Can Hack It
This morning I stopped by Rutgers B-School in downtown Newark for final presentations at Blerdology’s hackthon. For those who haven’t been following along, Blerdology is …
Blerdology Comes to Rutgers Newark
What is blerdology? It’s a couple of things. It’s a social enterprise founded to promote the Black tech community. It was also formerly called #BlackGirlsHack. …
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 …
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 …
Ivy Entrepreneurship: Princeton’s eLab Demo Day
They do have ambitious plans at Princeton. Yesterday I attended presentations made by the first graduates of the Keller Center‘s eLab, which is a student …
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 …
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 …
11-Year Old NJ Girl Gets $300K in Funding
In 2011, I watched 17-year Alex Godin present Dispatch.io at TechCrunch Disrupt’s hackathon. This year at TC Disrupt I heard 18-year old Max Mitchell pitch …
Tales from Startup Alley: Embedle’s Twitter Conversation App
As I was weaving around the Startup Alley streets, I came across Embedle. The name intrigued me. So I made a full stop and turned …
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 …
NYC/NJ Hacker News
As a non-contributing member of the Hacker League, a community devoting to preserving those late night hacks for posterity, I get the benefit of receiving …
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 …
NJ’s Answer to Groupon: PromoVerse’s Location-based Deal Finder
Can consumers keep straight another Groupon-clone in their short-term shopping memory? NJ-based PromoVerse has plans to enter the small business deal market with a geo-aware …
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, …
Mutual Force: New Marketplace for Knowledge Transfer
New Jersey-based Mutual Force pinged us the other day about their upcoming beta service that pays former employees for their institutional wisdom. We have been …