WHILE WE’VE HAD OUR FAIR share of rain these past few weeks, its no good reason to get upset. The torrential rain didn’t dampen any spirits (booze or moral) at the Up-Set Annual Summer Membership Party for NYC and Boston members of Our Square (http://www.oursquare.com) on Thursday, July 24th, sponsored by NY Sports Club, Samuel…
Continuing on to Tramps for the VIP party of DISCmakers Independent Music World Series. After the press party the contest between NYC’s best independent bands went on till midnight. After a healthy din din of green salad, black beans and rice, and fresh fruit, I spoke with Thom Jack, owner of the club Spiral on…
REMEMBER WOODSTOCK? Buckets of rain, some good music yadda-yadda. Well, last week’s Webstock have many of the same elements. Held on July 18 at the Frying Pan in the Hudson River–New York’s hottest new media party spot these days–it was sponsored by NYC Citysearch, Canadian Consulate General, WebCinema and others. It featured a torrential rainstorm…
Its third year (and sponsor driven name) in a row, the Intel Music Festival is evolving into the music and new media event of the year. The festival attains more sponsors and clubs with each makeover. This year the festival coincided with Jupiter Communication’s Conference “Plug-In” held at the World Trade Center’s Marriot. This was…
The next night, 7/17, Narrowline (http://www.narrowline.com) hosted a dinner at Flowers restaurant. In an effort to bring together new media people in a social environment to foster friendships and solid contacts they have begun hosting these dinners on a regular basis. On hand this evening were: Amy A. Schoenborn, Dir. of Development, Electronic Frontier Foundation…
Even if you bemoan that you didn’t arrange for a Hampton’s share in time for this summer, there’s certainly plenty of business and social events in town to keep you busy and happy. Just take a look at only a few of the things going on over the last two weeks! The Silicon Alley Partners…
On Monday, June 30, ICON held a hot party to celebrate the second anniversary of it’s trend setting Webzine Word. When I say hot, I mean hot. Someone forgot to turn on the air conditioning in the Audart Gallery–an interior windowless space on 60 Broad St. They should’ve just passed out towels at the door…
The same night EarthWeb hosted a party to launch their new Moderator software package for managing chat environments. No management needed to handle the crowd of chatters on hand to enjoy the rooftop with barbeque, good ol’ greasy sliders, a view of a smokestack, and the typical club dance/bar/lounge scene inside. I bumped into cyberscribe…
On Wednesday, June 25, I encountered many (almost too) media and ad people at CMP MEDIA’s party celebrating the transformation of CommunicationsWeek into InternetWeek (a change announced shortly after the company folded it’s consumer Net pub Netguide). The event marked the Manhasset-based company’s acknowledgement of the impact of the Net on the nerdy world of…
ALSO ON FRIDAY was Owen Davis’ excellent party for his company’s new name–Thinking Media and the launch of his new advertising service, ActiveAds. A bunch of WWWAC people came as did a bunch of friends of Thinking Media. (Appeared originally in @The Scene in the @NY newsletter)