“If this was ten years ago, DJ Spooky would have been playing the Chemical Brothers and about a third of the room would have been on ecstasy,” said Jason Calacanis, veteran Silicon Alley tech star as founder of Weblogs, Inc., former Silicon Alley Read More
Last night at the New Museum on the Bowery, a crowd of left-behind New Yorkers gathered to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama. The party, sponsored by The New York Times, attracted not the hoped-for celebrities (it was rumored that Moby, Dave Matthews, and Isaac Mizrahi would be attending), but rather the crowd of young Read More
What will be the next big thing in tech this year? How will start-ups grapple with the economic crisis? What’s gonna happen to Google? Will Twitter take over the world?
Charlie O’Donnell, co-founder and CEO of career-building site Path 101, asked a bunch of tech-savvy New Yorkers and others to make a 7-second Read More
After his interview for an article this week’s issue of the Observer, Drop.io CEO Sam Lessin told us he was going on vacation. Apparently, a bunch of other tech stars including his girlfriend (a Wall Street Journal tech reporter), Facebook product design lead Aaron Sittig, Apple producer/designer Jessica Bigarel, and Blip.tv cofounder Mike Hudack Read More
Sam Lessin is preoccupied with digital privacy. And for good reason: It’s more than a little scary how much you can find out about him with a simple Google search of his name. More than 41,800 results scrounge up articles about his Internet start-up company, Drop.io, where he serves as CEO. You can find his Read More
