How often is a company incubated within another firm? How often is it that the incubated and firm throw a big bash in classic Silicon Alley style for their baby? Well, Blue Tape (the incubatee) together with Viant (the incubator) launched Sputnik7.com (the incubated) on Wednesday, April 21st at Viant’s sprawling offices. Blue Tape is…
NEW YORKERS DO have a heart! (Who said we didn’t, huh?) To prove this, the turnout on April 19 for Netday2000 at Washington Irving High School was a CyberSocial Register’s dream come true. Nicholas Butterworth of SonicNet, Random-Man Geo Geller, Howard Greenstein of Microsoft, top people from Poppe Tyson, David Packman of N2K, Michael Dorf…
After winning a Broadcast Designer’s Association Award for art directing Lifetime Television’s “The Place,” Joanne Borek moves over to iVillage to be the new art director for Parent Soup. Joanne is also currently a Professor of Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. (Appeared originally in @The Scene in the @NY newsletter)
ON THE CALENDAR: Calling all Intrepid NetNauts! Come help out on Saturday, April 19, for NETDAY. Here’s your chance to help wire public schools — starting with Washington Irving High School. This is an effort fueled by private companies and individuals. Using the “Adopt-A-Highway” metaphor, the goal for this particular school is to put in…
ANDREW LEVY at LPNYTHink told me they have been hired by the Canadian Government to create a marketing program to encourage business between Canadian new media companies and New York companies. LPNYTHink is a printing company that grew into a creative agency. Like many traditional printing houses, they’ve merged the two disciplines into one smooth…
NEW YORK April 18, 1997 Related Links: House of Borax GEOCITIES 1st Annual “Best Unsigned Bands In America Contest” LPNYTHink’s Creative work for Canada Calendar of Events April 18, 1997 House of Borax YOU’VE GOT TO LIKE the space at House of Borax. Exposed bricks, old arched windows, high ceilings and exposed beams. It would…
4/17/97 MOVING AND GROOVING: Vladimir Lubel has just moved to Showtime from a long stint at Chapman Advertising . . . Contrary to the rumors, Buoyant has not merged with Spiral Media. What did happen though, was that Mitch Golden, (director of technology), Brad Justus (executive vice president) and Pall Walton (chief of production) left…
NETGRAVITY’S launch party for its new AdServer 2.1 on April 17 at the @Cafe was sponsored by Net Perceptions and IChat. NetGravity has established itself as one of the industry’s premier ad management system. Among the attendees were Corey Podolsky of SonicNet and Mark Friedler of Vcast. The very dapper 20’s styled looking Dave Brown…
THE DRAMA, THE suspense, the rented shoes! It was the first “Silicon Bowl” at the luxurious BowlMor Lanes on April 14. The beer was cold, the pizza was hot and the lanes were smoking as some downtown new media companies mixed it up in an informal evening of bowling and conversation. Claiming lanes were folks…
NETGRAVITY’S launch party for its new AdServer 2.1 on April 17 at the @Cafe was sponsored by Net Perceptions and IChat. NetGravity (http://www.netgravity.com) has established itself as one of the industry’s premier ad management system. Among the attendees were Corey Podolsky of SonicNet and Mark Friedler of Vcast. The very dapper 20’s styled looking Dave…