This morning, Mayor Mike Bloomberg unveiled New York City’s long-awaited Big Apps contest. Big Apps seeks to promote the Internet industry in the Big Apple (it’s sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Corporation) and make local government more transparent.
I’ve been following the evolution of open data initiatives at the municipal level for about [...]
Municipal Vaporware: Why NYC’s Data Mine is A Data Dump
Published by Anthony Townsend on October 6, 2009 under News 
Tags: Community, iPhone, New York City 
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Iphone, Google Latitude and a row boat
Published by Dustin Goodwin on October 2, 2009 under News Tags: 3G, geolocation, google, iPhone, privacy, rowing Comments Off
Publishing your exact location regularly to everyone on the Internet? To some it sounds like a Orwellian nightmare. But this is exactly what Google Latitude allows you to do. Google can grab GPS location data from your mobile phone and it gives you the option of publishing your location at the city level or your [...]
Android Will Open the Mobile Space in 2008
Published by Dana Spiegel on January 4, 2008 under News Tags: Android, Hardware, iPhone, Mobile Comments Off
Google’s Android mobile OS is an interesting new technology that will open up the mobile space in 2008. Bill Sobel blogged about the platform in conjunction with our Jan 17th panel “Wireless, Wimax, Mobile and Beyond: A Look at the Future Communications“.
Android will enable a multitude of new mobile applications. Along with the iPhone’s soon [...]
