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 54 work-stations. Andrew…
GEOCITIES, A PIONEER in the development of Internet-based communities, recently celebrated the launch of its first annual “Best Unsigned Bands In America Contest” with a party at New York’s trendy downtown nightspot, Mother. Presented in conjunction with SPIN magazine and sponsored by Intel and RankIt, Visa’s college site, the event attracted the obvious melange of…
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…
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 4, 1997 Commonwealth Network in Slick Soho The Myriad of people at 632 Multimedia demos @ Irving Plaza American Museum of Moving Image talks Tipping the Hat to Ms. Pirtle April 4, 1997 Commonwealth Network in Slick Soho SUPER SLICK SOHO was the designated neighborhood for the Commonwealth Network party on March…
WHAT’S GOING ON AT 632 BROADWAY? Anton also informed me he’s working in close proximity to, and sharing lofty office space with Ed Bennett, former Prodigy chairman. I guess it makes sense that Ed is there, considering Myriad Agency took over the old Prodigy space. I spoke for a while with EVP of Myriad Agency,…
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 Rudolth & Beer. The demo went well but there seemed…
At the American Museum of Moving Image this past Saturday, March 29th, there was an excellent symposium featuring Sherry Turkle, noted author/digital culture expert; Linda Stone, Director of the Virtual Worlds Group at Microsoft‘s Advanced Technology and Research Division; and Scott Kurnit, Founder, The Mining Company. Following are some synopses of their presentations: Turkle argued…
FINALLY, GIVING DUE CREDIT: I must tip my hat to Jennifer Pirtle who gave life to this column of which I am adopting. I can truly say I have reams of respect for a woman who writes so well, so frequently, and truly covered the @NY Scene column with incredible thoroughness. Thank you Jen for…
SUPER SLICK SOHO was the designated neighborhood for the Commonwealth Network party on March 26 @Wax. The packed, hot and smokey atmosphere created the perfect environment for mucho networking, martini drinking, and that giddy-headed experience of being in New York’s new media community. Samatha Skey, director of PR for Interactive Imaginations, Inc. gave me the…