Posted in Food, New York, coffee on May 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
Here it is- a tour of NYC’s finest coffee establishments. No it’s not by me (I wish I had the patience to collect my thoughts on the matter) but I just stumbled on a great virtual tour collected over at Man Seeking Coffee. In this case, I’m just the curator.
I’ll be reading through most of [...]
Posted in New York, me, the web on September 17th, 2008 9 Comments »
Right now I’m going through what I would imagine to be nightmare of every web worker. That’s right: my internet connection is extremely slow.
Just to clarify, it’s been fine during the day but it’s been insane slow at night (peak hours). My last speedtest (through speedtest.nyc.rr.com) put me at 509 kbps down and 403 kbps [...]
Posted in New York on July 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Somewhere there is a cartographer crying over this…
New York City is generally easy to navigate, thanks to a grid of streets and avenues in most of the city. The grid uses numbers and a few simple rules in order to make it easy to figure out where you are, but in parts of the city, [...]
Posted in New York on May 25th, 2008 No Comments »
About a week ago I saw my first Smart Car parked in NYC. These seem like the perfect city car, but this is the first time I actually saw one in use. I’m not sure if/when they went on sale or if adoption is slow but it was exciting to see one downtown. The amount [...]
Posted in New York on April 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Last night was the first meetup for the New Work City coworking group. If you are not up on the whole coworking idea, basically a few people are trying to rent out shared office space so that different NYC-based freelancers can have a place to work. This space would be affordable and designed so that [...]
Posted in New York, me on April 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
So for a few days now Starbucks has been saying that they would have some very big news at noon (EST) today. Before anyone even had a chance to get interested news broke that is was an “everyday blend” of drop coffee.
I’m not a Starbucks fan, but I live in Manhattan, so there is one [...]
Posted in New York, Startups on July 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
It’s no joke…
The first conference designed specifically for widget marketers. A full day of dialogue and productive networking. Case studies, examples, data, insight. An invite-only guest list comprised of the leading agencies, most innovative clients and widget-savvy publishers.
It’s a convention, about widgets. You know, those embeddedable web applications that are popping up all over.
Personally [...]
