By Megan McCarthy 11/23/11 10:30am

12 to Watch in 2012

Episode 4: Khoi Vinh of Mixel – Using Social Interaction to Rethink Design

Welcome to 12 to Watch in 2012, a new web series profiling some of New York’s top minds doing innovative things with technology and design.

Meet Khoi Vinh, creator of Mixel, an iPad application where people can create social collages with interlinked images, and then gives users the ability to remix already-created compositions. The simple and intuitive technology present in the Mixel application presents a new outlet for creativity with a user-friendly interface, and the social element of the app helps users completely rethink design, with the assistance of shared ideas. The iPad, to him, is the “perfect art making device,” and Mixel is the technology that allows users to harness that creativity. Read More

By Nitasha Tiku 8:22pm

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Condé Nast Is Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Not long after Scott Dadich was appointed executive editor of digital magazine development for all of Condé Nast, “the tops of the mastheads,” as the senior editorial staffs are called, filed into the company’s fourth-floor lecture hall for a series of meetings. Condé’s new iPad king was holding court.

This wasn’t the first time the tastemakers of 4 Times Square had met Mr. Dadich. He’d been shopping “that Wired thing” around the company since it debuted in iTunes’ App Store in May 2010 to considerable fanfare and a flurry of downloads.

But this time, Mr. Dadich faced a few more sets of crossed arms. Read More