Each month the largest Meetup event in the world takes place in New York City, where local innovators show off their latest work at the NY Tech Meetup. Over 800 people come each month, and hundreds more now watch live at simulcast events. Though there were some excellent demos last night (CartoDB and Scroll Kit [...]
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As a niche market company offering high value, recession-proof goods, bargains for consumers and a marketing opportunity for wholesalers, Lot 18 has nailed all of my ideal attributes in a company. But that’s not why I tried out the online wine seller. I signed up last year because I’m the perfect early user for a [...]
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OCT 25 UPDATE: 97% OF NETFLIX USERS CONTENT WITH SERVICE A publicly traded media company with over 24 million users increased the price of their standard service by 40%, completely botched three rounds of customer service PR, and after three months of bad press almost 97% of customers continue to be content enough to pay [...]
Read more →I recently wrote that CityPockets surprised me at the New York Tech Meetup, but I never effectively explained why. The main reason is that daily deals and collective discount systems have become so ubiquitous in online tech that my eyes glaze over as soon as you put a company in that category. (The only exception [...]
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July’s New York Tech Meetup was a big one, and not just in terms of numbers (about 850 people packed the Skirball auditorium at NYU). The lineup was tight, with several very strong demos, but the one that really blew people away was BioDigital Human. Like pornography for hypochondriacs, BioDigital Human loads a complete 3D [...]
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