Posts Tagged ‘new york’

Here’s a story about a town government making some interesting decisions gadget-wise and waste-wise: Cornelius, North Carolina.

Town Turns to iPads in Cost-Cutting Move (New York Times)

The town commissioners meeting agenda package is generally about 200 pages pages. Twenty copies of the agenda is made each time one is produced. The town government plans to buy 16 16GB WiFi-only iPads (based on the $500 per unit price noted in the article) to reduce the number of printed agendas for each meeting. The town government expects to recover the cost of the iPad in about 1.5 years.

There’s a bit more to using an iPad than just having the device, of course. Software (apps), Apple Care (extended warranty) and WiFi (or 3G-to-WiFi tethering) network connectivity involve additional costs. Still, it sounds like the town official have thought this through and are on their way to an iPad-ized government.

New York City considers itself to be the world’s communications hub, and in conjunction with Internet Week New York, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment created a hub of its own: the NYC App Hub, which offers access to a host of smartphone apps created by and related to the Big Apple.

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Shares of the Chinese social networking site Renren surged on their trading debut in New York on Wednesday. The company raised $743 million from the offering.

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We have long been hearing about the need for quality engineering talent to keep up with the demands of ideas-centric New York City. KAYWEB Angels, LLC is the ‘angel development company’ founded to fill this gap and plug New York’s developer hole.

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He spoke of creating a “hybrid check-in” model where the phone would recognize when you’ve entered an establishment that you previously visited and ask you if you’d like to check in there.

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I was surprised that Washington, D.C. was crowned the top socially networking city. I guess politicians need to keep on top of their constituents and minute-minute-votes on Capitol Hill. Palo Alto, the home to Facebook headquarters, is nowhere to be found on the top 100 social networked cities.

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Inspired by some recent YouTube subway shenanigans, we’ve put together a list of the top 10 NYC Subway videos. Enjoy and stand clear of the closing doors.

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It’s that time of year: New Year’s Eve is only 24 days away, so the Times Square Alliance, Countdown Entertainment, and Livestream announced their plans for a live, six-and-a-half-hour, commercial-free Webcast of the celebration from New York’s Times Square.

The organizers said the Webcast will be made up of five story lines: One World Revealed, which will share the stories of people from everywhere around the globe who traveled to Times Square to be part of the festivities; What It Takes, a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the New Year’s Eve celebration; Celebrate Community, in which viewers from more than 190 countries will chat and share photos and video via Facebook chat, Twitter chat, or Tweeting hashtag #TimesSquareBall; Times Square, a look at the history of the world’s most famous intersection; and The Official New Year’s Eve Live Blogcast Headquarters, “the central nervous system of the global celebration,” located at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.

Free, customizable widgets will be offered for blogs, Web sites, and digital media outlets to embed the live stream, and it can also be viewed at TimesSquareNYC.org, Livestream.com/2011, and TimesSquareBall.net.

Start Tweeting the news: According to the Social Business Report study from marketing database outfit NetProspex, New York is the top Twitter city — which NetProspex defines as cities with the most active businesspeople on the microblogging site, based on employee presence and average numbers of Tweets, followers, and profiles followed — reports Katie Kindelan from sister blog Social Times.

Please see Social Times for much more on the Social Business Report from NetProspex, but here are the rest of the top 10 cities following the Big Apple: San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; Sacramento, Calif.; Phoenix; Denver; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Cincinnati; and Wilmington, Del.

After launching in April 2007 as a blog under the nymag.com umbrella, Vulture hatched Tuesday night as a full-fledged entertainment Web magazine, featuring a redesigned homepage to distance itself from the blog format and a sectional layout featuring its multiple departments.

All stories now appear in reverse chronological order, and Vulture also introduced Obsessive Guides, which it described as “hubs for fans, featuring a mix of reader conversation, regular news updates, and deep dives into the minutiae of TV shows, movies, and personalities.” Vulture will also add a review section covering movies, TV, theater, music, art, and books and featuring content from New York Magazine critics David Edelstein, Emily Nussbaum, Jerry Saltz, Sam Anderson, and Scott Brown.

Vulture editor-in-chief Adam Moss said:

Vulture had clearly grown beyond its home at nymag.com, and its new design and identity acknowledge this. We think there’s a real demand for the “smart populist” territory Vulture occupies. Vulture takes low culture seriously, and isn’t reflexively reverent about high culture. It also recognizes that 21st century entertainment consumers are savvier about and more interested in how entertainment products are made than ever before.