If you're thinking of starting a company, chances are you're going to find yourself pitching angel investors. And while all angels aren't the same, th...
You've got to admit, it was a weird anniversary to celebrate. There was the Mayor of NY at the Old Town Bar in Union Square - happily reminding the ba...
Sometimes, it's easy to forget just how far New York has come in the past five years. But sitting in the Skirball Center at NYU at the most recent Ne...
After a few false starts, and some famous melt downs - the shape of web video is now coming into view. One thing is certain, all of the video in th...
Often at TED, there's bit of innovation that is causing the most conversation, and it is the thing that's just around the corner... not yet public bu...
This year, almost a third of the speakers on the TED stage in Long Beach will be coming from a new process that opened the doors of TED to a global c...
This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was notable, not so much for what was there as what has vanished.
A look at the New York Tech Scene from the NYCEDC Entrepreneur at Large: From the NYC Entrepreneur at Large - I admit it - it had been a while since...
It used to be that users would blighly just check the TOS box at the end of any sing up process for websites or software.
I've been "exclusive" with Siri since we began our relationship almost two years ago. I was faithful. I'd ask her questions, and she'd answer. And I was smitten. But then -- the world kept getting more complicated, and she just wasn't keeping up.
It used to be that having conversations with readers came after publication. But today a book is the outcome of thought leadership, blogging, and conversational leadership.
Thanksgiving is a time for looking back -- and thinking about the year ahead. So with that in mind -- I wanted to take this time to share some things I'm thankful for in this growing tech city.
Welcome to the new world of media, where the volume is massive, and the filters are human. It's a new way to think of news, but it's the way we're going to in the future.
Mayor Bloomberg had declared the week of September 24th "Maker Week" in New York -- and it seems every Maker for hundreds of miles in every direction took him up on it.
A look at the NY Tech Scene from the NYCEDC Entrepreneur at Large: This week marks the first full week of the fall tech season in New York - and ther...
I've been a fan of Yahoo since the beginning of time (or at least since Web history began). I've always thought of it as being a media company. Today, Yahoo is being led by the first CEO with real media chops in a very long time.
These groups of thought leaders are blogging, tweeting, meeting, and plugging in to social media with innovation and enthusiasm that in many ways surpasses many of the media organizations that I know well.
The idea of SXSW as a metaphor for the growth and overwhelming abundance of the web is more than apt. No matter how you cut it, the volume of panels, talks, conversations, parties, gatherings, bands, and food trucks is hard to manage.
If you look at the data, New York is - today - the center of the media universe. Headquarters for 29 of global media companies - New York is 2.4x l...
Business used to be so simple. Manufacturers made things. Stores stocked them. Consumers bought them. Rinse and repeat. Ah, it sounds so quaint standing in the marketplace madness that is 2011.
You know that feeling on a clear blue sky day. The air is crisp, the sun is shining. Everything seems right in the world. Well, on the Web - it isn't...
There are pages and pages of these. I'm not going to name the chain, because I hope that as a careful customer you're searching Yelp, CitySearch, Google Reviews -- or any of the many sites that invite consumer feedback.
Over the past three years New York has shifted from being a sleepy backwater of tech innovation to a red hot center of startup activity.
For as long as anyone can remember, Google's video personality has been deeply bipolar. On one hand, there's YouTube, the massive consumer video stor...
Honestly, I've seen a lot of cool video stuff in the past year. Amazing social software. Cool new ad solutions. And content creators who are breaking ...
