By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

After I interviewed Mark Malkoff, I wanted to see if people knew who he was.

So I asked Malkoff to hold the camera, while I asked people walking by if they knew the guy who lived in Ikea for a…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I think the New York Times article on “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” is a bit overblown. Are we really that addicted to technology?

On average we consume 12 hours of media a day and we surf 40…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

As I said earlier, Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants people to move to New York to start their businesses. The NYC Entrepreneurial Fund will pump in $19 million into New York-based startups. Read the full story »

Tags: betaworks , Iain Dodsworth , Michael Bloomberg , New York , New York City , new york times , tweetdeck , United States

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Obama began Small Business Owners Week, asking Congress to create a small-business jobs package ASAP.

“Small business owners have been the hardest hit by this recession,” Obama added. “From the middle of 2007 through the end of 2008, small businesses lost 2.4 million

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The New York Times did a review of uCorder, a camcorder you can wear on your body. While the camera can record up to 72 hours of footage, the good quality video is off set with background noise and a distinctive hum. I…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Many of the entrepreneurs in New York have lived through the dot-com boom. But as of late, the tech scene has gotten a second life and the time is ripe for a new breed of Internet companies to thrive. The start-up energy sizzling…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The secret to success is to “play dirty.” And apparently, New Yorkers don’t know how to play rough enough.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Wahed Said wants to build a waste-to-fuel plant in New York. He is not alone. Said is a green entrepreneur, who is a managing partner for Native American Investors Group. His two partners are Native American.

“Our mission is to…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The good news is that the “society” is more fair, according to the New York Times. You just need to be “smart and hardworking.”

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Over the last year, small coffee shops had slowly crept into New York. The timing couldn’t have been better. After all, the unemployeed, freelancers, and small business owners, need a comfy place to call their “office.”

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I was at a party on Saturday night on a top floor apartment on Wall Street. There was no music, no dancing, but a lot of laughter. This was hardly the typical party, but was typical of our digital expectations.

About…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I still haven’t bought a virtual good. In all honesty, I’d much rather spend my money on real stuff.

A virtual good is not real. It’s a non-physical object that you purchase in online communities. For instance, Facebook, Zynga’s FarmVille…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Today begins a five day romp for social media types all over the world. Web types that either are or fancy themselves social media savvy and want to hear from successful practitioners and rub elbows with them at Tweet Ups…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Is anyone going to the SOS networking event tonight? It’s at Connelly’s at 121 West 45th Street on the 3rd Floor.

The event starts at 6:30 pm and runs to 8:30 pm. I’ll get there around 7 or 7:30, so…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Michael Karnjanaprakorn listed the major start-ups in New York. While he named nearly a hundred, but I listed 10 that stuck out at me.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Got a broken light on your street? There’s an app for it.

Enter Gov 2.0. You can snap a picture with your iPhone and send the picture with your GPS coordinates straight to City Hall.

Large cities like New York and…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Sort of like Back to the Future in the sense that these folks are working to build the next, next and next web connected devices and the event is in the past.. Anyway, like Doc, these mad scientists of the AR and…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Can’t make it to SoHo anytime soon or in this lifetime? Then you should head over to StyleCaster to get a sense of what ambitious, smart fashion is walking the streets of NYC Read the full story »

Tags: api , Big Apple apparel , Facebook Connect , iPhone , mobile fashion , New York , New York Fashion , SoHo , SoHo Fashion , StyleCaster