6 days ago

A VC As the venture business has grown and matured, many firms have developed specific areas of focus. Our firm, Union Square Ventures, for example only invests in web services. I believe this is a good thing for both the investors in venture funds, called LPs, and the entrepreneurs. But there are a number of ways that firms can (Read More)

Sep 30, 2008

Submitted by Tlimongello from Google Reader: You may remember last month when we sent out a note about a planned Ferris Bueller Parade reenactment at the Deitch Art Parade in Soho. Sadly the whole Art Parade was canceled due to rain. But the organizers of the Ferris stunt just informed us they’re going to give it another shot at this year’s Halloween Parade in the V (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

SarahLacy.com O.M.G. Paul Carr read my previous post and found the swine flu rap on YouTube. This makes me doubly happy because I was going to Flip-cam it on the way back to Beijing but my Flip broke. I love it. The female pig sneezing at the end looks so miserable. Poor thing! . (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

GoMo News Cellogic  has launched a new idle screen application for Android devices.  The new brand name is Flyscreen.FlyScreen  has been in private beta since August 31st, and starting from today, will be open to the public packed with new features, including Facebook Stream API support, “double tap to activate” smart locking mechani (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

TechCrunch Foursquare is a company with all of four employees. Yes, they just hired their fourth, we’ve learned (hello, Nathan Folkman, formerly of Betaworks, where he worked on Bit.ly). And yes, that’s a fitting number. You might think that a company that recently closed some funding would ramp up hiring a little faster, but the trut (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

TechCrunch As we noted on Friday, Tweetie 2, the new iPhone Twitter client by Atebits, launched in the App Store. We did a preview of it a few weeks ago, noting that it was the best Twitter client out there. Judging from the response on Twitter and elsewhere, most seem to agree. So what’s next?Atebits has a short post today outlining (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

A VC Over the past couple years, many of the best movies I've seen have been made outside of the US. "Foreign films" are nothing new and they have been standard fare for a long time at indie movie theaters like The Film Forum here in NYC.But I think we are witnessing something more profound. As big swaths of the world modernize (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider I am delighted to come to Beijing and share thoughts with my colleagues in the media and my friends from around the globe. Confucius noted that those who seek constant happiness must often change – now, I’m no sage but it is fair to say that we are today confronted by unprecedented change and challenge, and if we don’t adap (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

Submitted by Jungleg from Google Reader: On Tuesday, October 13th, at 6:30PM, 100 Founders and CEO’s of NYC tech companies will gather at Sun Microsystems for nextNY’s “NYC Media: Meet the startups” event. The idea behind the event was that, on a pretty regular basis, tech and small business reporters find their way to me and want to know about the “comeback” or (Read More)

Oct 07, 2009

The Next Web I’m sure most people who use RSS have a hard time keeping up with their daily updates. And if they do it is still hard to cut through the clutter and find what really interests you.Spectives is a new Dutch start-up (launched today) that aims to offer a new way to look at RSS feeds. They provide a visual RSS reader that disp (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider There's lots of talk about how many billions of apps mobile users are downloading: More than 2 billion so far on the iPhone, for example. That's impressive, but that's not the same as if people were using 2 billion apps. The reality is that mobile apps don't have long lives.The latest data from mobile analytics startup Flur (Read More)

Oct 04, 2009

TechCrunch Dropico is a brand new service that allows you to drag and drop pictures from multiple social networks rapidly and seamlessly, without the need to upload photos and other imagery to each of them separately. Have any pictures stored on your TwitPic account that you want to share with your Facebook Friends, or want to bring a (Read More)

Oct 02, 2009

kottke.org Michael Osinski grows oysters out on Long Island, now an unusual pursuit in an area that used to support dozens of oyster companies...New York used to be the place for oysters (see also).If you'd like to try them out, Widow's Hole sells their oysters to several NYC restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafe, (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider Funny move by the makers of PCalc, a $10 add-on calculator for the iPhone: They've "censored" users' ability to write upside-down profanity using calculator digits.For example, '5318008' no longer says 'BOOBIES' upside-down. The iPhone's motion sensor triggers the calculator flip -- and therefore, the censorship.Read the re (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider Early stage venture capital firm First Round Capital is opening a New York office, the firm announced today, adding to its Philadelphia-area and San Francisco offices.Read the rest of this story »See Also:The Twitter Investment And The Decline Of Venture CapitalNew York City Venture Capital Is Not Dead!Path 101's Business M (Read More)

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