Wednesday the Dec. 17th’s evening started out at the quickly evolving interactive/communications group, Darwin Digital. Similar to other large advertising agencies, this group is currently under the umbrella of Saatchi & Saatchi (who just broke off on their own, away from Cordiant). Darwin is a fully functioning company on its own, being pretty self-reliant for…
December 12, 1997 ‘TIS THE SEASON for holiday parties, office functions and Internet World. The whirlwind generated from this major conference in our fair town, during the busiest tourist, season offers a sack loaded to the brim full with ideas, contacts, and Net presents (presence) a plenty. There were at least ten events during the…
We’re just two weeks away from the new year and people still startle me when they say “See you next year!” Yet here it is, near the end of 1997. And that meant it was time for the annual Silicon Alley blowout: the WWWAC holiday party. I freely admit that this will be a super-biased…
Wednesday, Dec. 10 — As Bill Clinton tied up all of midtown in knots, digital party-goers dodged police truncheons as they dared to walk to the Waldorf-Astoria for the first “dinner” (in the loosest sense of the word) of the Association of Internet Professionals. Andrew Kraft, chief operating officer for the nationwide group, welcomed House…
Braving the security junta that descended on midtown to protect the President from marauding commuters, many folks made their way over the Museum of Television and Radio, where a positively glowing Steve Case hosted the AOL Studios bash featuring tasty pasta and chicken canapes.Making the scene were outgoing (and underappreciated) NYNMA executive director Lori Schwab,…
From the full issue: New York – December 12, 1997 (Full Issue) At the One Club Gallery, a cast of interactive agency honchos took in the august advertising group’s first-ever digital media show, put together with the help of Agency.Com’s Kyle Shannon and Chris McCarthy, formerly of Avalanche and how on the west coast with…
This was a week of excess, and fittingly DoubleClick, Alta Vista and Wild Wild Web TV show had their bash at XS, the multi-game arcade party space. The whole Alley, and many Valley folks were out to revel in the fun, frivolity, and feasts of networking and the Net. Meanwhile, all of 21st Street was…
Monday, Dec. 8 — The Canadian Consulate of New York and g-Digital’s Summit on E-Commerce aimed to bring together Canadian and U.S. new media firms to share ideas, create new ones, and generate biz opportunities. That same night, I was rubbing elbows with Mayor Giuliani and First Lady Donna Hanover at Gracie Mansion. Skitch Henderson…
Friday, Dec. 5 — N2K’s holiday party was also in the Digital Sandbox.Many, many music people were there, and a handful of new media types too.One woman (who shall remain nameless) horrified a good number of us as she combed her hands through the pretzel, peanut, cracker Chex mix searching for cashews. Ew! While guests…
EXOTIC ANTIQUE textiles were the backdrop in the Manhattan Internet Lounge (http://www.milounge.com) for “Web Writers in the Flesh” (http://www.xmel.com/webwriters.html). Xander Mellish in a bright orange silk cocktail dress was the final of six poets and writers to perform on December 2. Each writer read a piece of their work in a multimedia fashion. Xander read…