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NY Creates Online Permit System for Small Projects
New York City Color (Photo credit: Randy Le’Moine Photography) Recently, NY’s Department of Buildings announced an easier method for licensing permits to professionals for building work on homes and...
View ArticleAlleyNYC Hosts Hackathon, Winners Announced
AlleyNYC, the newly opened space for startups hosted an event recently. Attending the event were various people, according to NYCEDC’s Tumblr, like an IT developer at a consumer magazine who wants to...
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#UltraLight Startups Hosts Investor Feedback Forum
Last week, Ultra Light Startups hosted its Investor Feedback Forums for budding startups and entrepreneurs in NY. Multiple groups premiered their concepts to a panel of judges, which included Avi Chen...
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Hudson Valley Professor Calls for National IT Program
English: Bard (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Walter Russel Mead, professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College, wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal about the type of government...
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#MTA Announces Smartphone App for Countdown Clocks
Logo for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The MTA announced that by the end of the year the subway countdown clocks for numbered lines will be available on...
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Brooklyn Webcam Captures Real-Time Fashion
Train on Williamsburg Bridge (Photo credit: marcgg) A webcam has been installed at the Williamsburg L train stop. The camera captures video of those walking out of the subway and is mounted a block...
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New Web Initiative Brings NY Into 21st Century
English: Andrew Cuomo, 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 64th New York State Attorney General as a candidate for Governor of New York, outside of City Hall, little...
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HuffPost, Gawker and BuzzFeed Knocked Out by #Sandy Flooding
Image via CrunchBase Datagram, the NY ISP that hosts locally based media sites BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Gawker and other sites, lost power during Hurricane Sandy. Located in Lower Manhattan,...
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#NYTimes Circulation Increases 40 Percent, Thanks to Digital
Image via CrunchBase The New York Times’ circulation increased 40 percent, according to a recently released report by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The big bump was due to an increase in digital...
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U.K.’s Yudu Media Opens NY Office
London-based Yudu Media opened a NY office earlier this week, which for the moment is a 1,200 square feet in the offices of Quad Graphics, in the Sports Illustrated Building, at 135 W. 50th St. The...
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Social Media Relied On, But Not Entirely Reliable During #Sandy
New York Stock Exchange (Photo credit: Wikipedia) With many NYers still without power since Sandy swept through the city, many have been staying abreast of the news and keeping in touch via social...
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Yahoo and Wenner Media to Co-Produce Content
Image via CrunchBase NY-based Wenner Media and Yahoo announced a cross-promotional content deal this week. Editorial teams from both companies will co-create exclusive entertainment content. The deal...
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LocalVox Acquires Postling for its Dashboard
LocalVox, a NY-based local marketing platform, announced today that it has acquired Postling, which has developed a social media marketing dashboard. Postling’s dashboard is used by more than 20,000...
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Hyperlocal News Traffic Surges During #Sandy
Hyperlocal news sites reported big traffic surges during Hurricane Sandy. AOL’s Patch reported its highest ever traffic on Monday. Page views were up 88 percent over its previous highest day,...
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#Sandy Shut Down 10 Percent of NY Internet
Hurricane Sandy: 10/30/2012 (Photo credit: ccho) A time lapsed video created by Renesys shows that about 10 percent of the Internet networks in the NY metropolitan area went down as a result of...
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NY Tech Runs on Diesel this Week #Sandy
diesel fuel pump on the engine (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When power went out in Lower Manhattan this week due to Hurricane Sandy, Fog Creek Software’s data center switched to an emergency diesel...
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NY Startups Link Up After #Sandy
Image via CrunchBase As the NY tech community still struggles to get back on its feet, employees are working from home, other people’s apartments, coffee shops and basically anywhere with power and...
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Google Maps Updates #Sandy Map
Google Maps for Android (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Earlier this week when Sandy was first being tracked, Google Maps launched a special interactive map, showing key information and predictions for the...
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NY Digital Companies Still Get to Work After #Sandy
Image via CrunchBase Even though Lower Manhattan businesses are temporarily out of order this week, employees are still working. SoHo-based AKQA said individual client teams are getting together to...
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Wal-Mart Inks Exclusive Deal Selling #Boxee TV
Image via CrunchBase Wal-Mart Stores announced recently an exclusive deal to sell Brooklyn-based Boxee’s TV set top boxes. Priced at $98, the device combines free TV broadcast channels, Internet...
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