I spent most of this afternoon at the Google East HQ at the Google Maps and Earth Hackathon. I am very glad I attended as I entered with basically zero knowledge about how to write code for Google Maps and now I know enough to get started. About 40 people attended the hackathon and surprisingly only...

I spent most of this afternoon at the Google East HQ at the Google Maps and Earth Hackathon. I am very glad I attended as I entered with basically zero knowledge about how to write code for Google Maps and now I know enough to get started. About 40 people attended the hackathon and surprisingly only...

Last weekend I spoke with Jed Alpert, Vice President of Marketing for NY-based WebCollage. WebCollage describes their service as, "a content exchange for manufacturers and their business partners". It's a service that would have been perfect when I was working with Target, Walmart, etc. t...

nextNY is doing three awesome talks in February. On Thursday, February 5th, Jason Schwartz is running an event for community managers.  Just what is community management?  Who should be doing it?  What are best practices?  Find out from the folks who do it for startups like Etsy,...

Following are my notes on last night’s MIT Enterprise Forum event on ‘Rebuilding Wall Street in a Down Market’. PANEL: Barry L. Ritholtz - CEO, Director of Equity Research, FusionIQ Philippe Buhannic - Co-Founder, Trading Screen Jacob Pechenik - Co-Founder, Yellow Jacket, acquired ...

NYConvergence ORIGINALYelp invited its users to attend a ball in NYC's Midtown neighborhood last night to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as president. Although we couldn't make it, freelance food and business writer Lisa Lacy did and she provided......

David Carr writes in today's NYT that "We need an iTunes for news" and I'm finding myself thinking very hard about what actually might help the struggling newspaper biz (bad news from Fitch ratings came out the other day, and it looks like the Seattle P-I is on the brink).  I...

David Carr writes in today's NYT that "We need an iTunes for news" and I'm finding myself thinking very hard about what actually might help the struggling newspaper biz (bad news from Fitch ratings came out the other day, and it looks like the Seattle P-I is on the brink).  I...

I can hardly believe it's been a whole year!  But WOW, what a year it has been. 12 months ago to the day, George Zhao and I pulled back the curtain and brought TickerHound.com to life... ...and within 15 minutes the site crashed. Needless to say we've come a long way since then.   Instead of the ...

Last night, I “won” (results) Organizer responsibilities of the NY Tech Meetup, taking the reins from Scott Heiferman and Dawn Barber in running the monthly Meetup of 7,500 members. The election for the role was about doing more than just meeting once a month and was about building, in S...