New York Tech Meetup had its first meetup of 2011 last night at its usual spot, the Skirball Center at New York University off W. 4th, and attendees seemed glad to be home after community board elections forced the December meetup to an away venue.
"Skirball!" hecklers shouted, when the audience was prompted for questions after Read More
In recent months, New York's City's Economic Development Corporation has become increasingly involved in the booming New York tech scene.
The city greatly expanded its second annual Big Apps competition, Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steele stopped by Google's offices to announce that the city is wooing a top-flight engineering school, and the EDC even hosted a Read More
The absence of women in tech is not really news, but since it remains a Situation, it's worth hammering away at.
This morning we wrote about the lack of women at the top positions at Twitter, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, arguably the biggest four companies on the social Web.
Now local designer Whitney Hess has put Read More
The results of the New York Tech Meetup Community Board election are in.
Protoblogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash, with 118 votes, and New York University computer science professor Evan Korth, with 97 votes, nabbed the two open seats on the board of the 15,000-strong organization.
Seventeen candidates campaigned for the positions (see them in our feature: Read More
With just a little over an hour left in the election for the first ever community board members of the New York Tech Meetup, less than 10 percent of the approximately 11,000 voters have weighed in.
It's really not that surprising says director Nate Westheimer. "I think I got elected with like 400 votes."
Candidate Noel "NoNeck" Read More
Last night's New York Tech Meetup was small by the 15,000-member strong organization's standards, and it wasn't at the usual venue.
That's because last night was not the usual New York Tech Meetup, a monthly event in which six people get five minutes each to demonstrate a cool project to New York's tech community. Last month, Read More
New York Tech Meetup is looking so grown-up these days.
Beyond just selling out the Skirball Center every month, the organization is seeking official status as a non-profit and adopting a set of Governing Bylaws.
As part of this maturation, NYTM is creating a 13 member board, with four of the seats to be filled by Read More
Entrepreneurial protoblogger Anil Dash is running for the board of the New York Tech Meetup, the 15,097-member group that recently registered with the state of New York and is seeking not-for-profit status--and it sounds like if he's elected, he'll gun for San Francisco.
Dash is a cofounder of the consulting agency Activate and the founding director Read More
The Transom likes any event at which baked goods are handed out as entrance party favors. So, last night's New York Tech Meetup started off on a high note when presenting startup Jibe--a socially networked job board; Conde is a launch partner--gave away custom shortbread-like cookies on the way in, each adorned with Read More
A few weeks ago, the Iranian "online revolution" seemed to be doing well. Since the presidential election on June 12, bloggers were culling together Twitter updates, Flickr photos and reports from Iranians on the ground at protests ripping across the country. CNN aired YouTube videos of the violence and Time magazine wrote about an Read More
Ever read The Times and feel like you need a dictionary by your side? Last month, Times deputy news editor Philip Corbett sent a memo to reporters about the 50 most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com. "Sui generis," "penury," "peripatetic" made the top of the list. Interesting!Well, now there's a site Read More
Last night, on June 2, Jason Calacanis was introduced as Silicon Alley's "original pimp" by Meetup's Scott Heiferman and debuted a new version of his "human powered search engine," Mahalo.com. "My wife is here," Mr. Calacanis said to the crowd of about 775 entreprenuers, venture capitalists, tech geeks and Silicon Valley randoms who had Read More
A few weeks ago, Nate Westheimer was sitting at a table outside a Chelsea cafe with bleary eyes and his brown hair sticking out in five different directions toward the sunny sky. He looked like he could use a beer. But it was only 10 a.m., so he ordered granola over milk.
“Last week, I Read More
On Thursday, May 7, the New York State Senate is set to launch their new Web site. Albany's King Geek, Andrew Hoppin, and his team have been working on upgrading the online portal for the past few months, creating new Read More
On June 2, the New York Tech Meetup will host the largest live showcase of New York technology and Web-based companies during Internet Week. They're calling it a "Demo Pit" and 60 city-based tech companies or coders of Web-based projects will set up shop in Read More
