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Any moment now, the Silicon Alley Insider will announce it’s much anticipated “Alley 100” list — a list which will serve as the Who’s Who of New York City technology for the next year.
Reader beware: the release will and has already caused a lot of buzz and controversy.
This is likely my last post on the [...]

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The Silicon Alley Insider is bringing back the Silicon Alley 100 list… and while you’re eagerly awaiting who they pick and why, you can go participate by voting in the People’s Choice.
Of everything the Silicon Alley Insider is doing, I think bringing back the Silicon Alley 100 is one of the coolest. As I’ve said [...]

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nextNYer’s is a show produced by For Your Imagination, for the benefit of the tech community here in NYC. Today, they launched their blog and the first episode. I’m looking forward to the interviews to come… and full disclosure: I’m one of them (though I don’t know when I’ll be showing up a computer screen [...]

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I was checking out the SAI reporting on Charlie’s round of financing (congrats!!!)($2 - 3 million pre-money valuation, whoa!), and saw this sight (below and on Alley Insider itself). I hope this is the progression of SAI’s ads. They started with Vintage Filings, making me wonder “WTF?! Am I the target audience for this site [...]

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A quick note to you New York readers:
Tomorrow (Saturday), come to Gramstand at 10am to talk coworking with Tara Hunt, one of the lead organizers of the coworking movement.
Gramstand is at 13th and Ave A in the East Village.
I hope to see some of you there.
10am!

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Some of the coolest things I’ve seen in the “crowdsourcing,” “mash-up,” and “investigative reporting” departments come from New York’s own WNYC. Disclosure: Among other things, I am the Technology Strategist at National Public Broadcasting. WNYC is one of our clients.
I actually stumbled the Brian Lehrer Show’s ongoing experiment in crowdsourcing through another great New York [...]

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I really liked this part of Charlie’s testimony to the New York City Council:
My final bit of support for what ITAC has recommended has to do with real physical infrastructure. Over the years, those involved in technology innovation in small companies and startups have always made due with whatever physical places we could find [...]

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I’ve just received this note (below) from my friend Yao-Hui Huang of GigaPixel Creative and The Hatchery. I like this form of networking because it’s about active match-making. Networking can feel really cheesy sometimes, but as anyone can tell who has used LinkedIn for all it’s worth, connecting with people who work in complementary fields [...]

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Folks, this is a re-post from what I wrote and had Tony put up on the CooperBricolage Blog. Check it out.
Dear CooBric-ers,
Gosh, do we have some news for you!
The current home of CooperBricolage, Cafe Fuego, is about to begin a massive renovation of its restaurant on St. Marks Place in early October. New name, new [...]

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If you’re a total geek and live in the Big Apple, check out New York-based Caroline McCarthy’s summary of events this weekend (I’m sure she’d publish it to the nextNY blog, if she didn’t work for C “stands for Copyright” NET).
… of course she missed the most important event this weekend:
Dodgeball 2.0 kicks off its [...]

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