By Gillian Reagan 6/22/09 8:14pm

Hoppin’s Crew Holds On

Early this month, New York State Senate chief information officer Andrew Hoppin stood behind a podium in the airy, ornate State House, dressed in a casual gray suit, with a red name tag stuck to his jacket, and delivered a speech about how technology could help fix the state government’s reputation as a notoriously outdated Read More

By Gillian Reagan 6/03/09 5:43pm

Top Tech ‘Pimp’ Jason Calacanis Presents Mahalo 2.0

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

By Jimmy Vielkind 5/07/09 4:10pm

State Senate 3.0, Continued

ALBANY—After several days of texts and tweets, staffers from the State Senate Democrats unveiled a new web portal at a press conference in New York City.
“We made a commitment when we took over the majority that we were going to put the Senate into the 21st Century,” Majority Leader Malcolm Smith said at Read More

By Jimmy Vielkind 5/07/09 3:54pm

State Senate 3.0, Continued

ALBANY—After several days of texts and tweets, staffers from the State Senate Democrats unveiled a new web portal at a press conference in New York City.

"We made a commitment when we took over the majority that we were going to put the Senate into the 21st Century," Majority Leader Malcolm Smith said Read More

By Gillian Reagan 10:00am

Albany’s King Geek

A few months ago, Andrew Hoppin was advising President Obama’s NASA transition team and contemplating his next move. He was settling back into New York after leaving the NASA Ames Research Center near Sunnyvale, Calif., where he co-founded and managed the NASA CoLab—a program that aimed to bring efficiency and transparency to the creaky Read More