Well last week they were handing out Pulitzers and this week they were wearing them! New York Junior League volunteers were modeling Lilly Pulitzer dresses at the “A Taste of Spring” cocktail party held at the Junior League’s headquarters on Thursday, April 22nd. I modeled two delightfully springy outfits from Carlisle (if you’re interested, contact…
From there I trekked on over to methodfive’s first After-5 Web Forum held at the offices of NickandPaul in the Chelsea Market on April 21st. Kenneth Goldsmith, who heads up the design department at methodfive, spoke on “Ramping Up Without Dumbing Down: Lessons Learned from methodfive’s Own Site Redesign.” Below is a recap of Mr….
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…
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…
CONGRATULATIONS were pealed out for the engagement of Jerry Michalski of EdVenture and Jennifer Weissman. The event was hosted by the gracious Emily Davidow at the lovely headquarters for Behome (http://www.behome.com). Tery Spataro looked positively stunning in a black dress with big green flowers, Heather Champ graced the party with her cool sophisticated presence and…
YOU’VE GOT TO LIKE the space at House of Borax. Exposed bricks, old arched windows, high ceilings and exposed beams. It would be any real estate agent’s dream project. But on April 5 it was a truly classless place to be. The reason? House of Borax and Thinking Pictures produced the third episode of the…
HELD AT THE EVER TRENDY, groovy Irving Plaza, the World Wide Web Artists Consortium meeting featured a big demo by Lara Stein and Madeline Kirbach from Microsoft Multimedia Productions, part of the Microsoft Network (MSN) and entertainment lawyer Jed Alpert, from the law firm of Rudolph & Beer. The demo went well but there seemed…