Archive for June, 2009
NYConvergence ORIGINAL appssavvy, a NYC-based company that provides an advertising network for social network applications, is launching a social-media campaign involving Huggies and Circle of Moms, an online community for moms. According to a e-mail received by NYConvergence, appsavvy is partnering with Mindshare to set up various sponsorship and social-media apps to connect Huggies with Circle of Moms. One of these components is "Huggies Zone," which will feature expert advice, diaper information, and the ability for moms to upload photos of their babies. More information about the partnership can be found here.
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> Appssavvy, Social Media Applications Companies Partner
> Q&A: Chris Cunningham, appssavvy
NYConvergence ORIGINAL The New York: Media Information Exchange Group (NY:MIEG) is hosting a conversation with Aryeh Green, Director of Media Central, on Thursday, July 9, at 8 AM at the Samsung Experience, located in the Time Warner Center in Manhattan's Columbus Circle neighborhood. This event will explore the current situation from a traditional and new media
point of view, how the press is currently covering ongoing developments in the
region, and the impact on media coverage in the United States. Media Central is an independent non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides services, information, acess, and materials to journalists based in or visiting Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the region. You can register to attend here. [Editor's Note: NY:MIEG is a current client of Trylon SMR, publisher of NYConvergence.]
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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By murat at Centrl
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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By murat at Centrl
We have implemented push-notifications in our iPhone app so now, even when you are not running Centrl on your iPhone, your friends will be able to send you messages. So, you will never miss any important message or any great shared deals ever again.
This makes Centrl a more continuous experience and makes sure you get notified instantly on important messages from your friends. The new version of our app is now waiting to be approved in the App Store. Here is a screenshot of how it will look like:
As always, we are looking forward to your feedback at feedback-at-centrl.com.
NYConvergence ORIGINAL While browsing our Twitter feed today, NYConvergence noticed that not only is there a Twitter feed for the entire NYC subway, but someone has created feeds for each of the individual subway lines. [Editor's Note: Thanks to AllThingsD's Peter Kafka for this tip.] Previous:
> MTA Text Message Alerts Begin Today
NYConvergence ORIGINAL
By: Gloria Sin  (Photo Credit: Gloria Sin, NYConvergence)
For a conference that bills itself as “the serious study of virtual worlds,” the sixth annual State of Play, hosted by New York Law School in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood this past weekend (June 19-20), was just as serious about having (real and digital) fun. Not only were the cross-discipline conversations about the future of virtual worlds simulcasted in Second Life, attendees also got to do a mixed reality dance-off with the avatars -- only to rickroll them! And in the real world and between sessions, panelists and attendees could be found jamming to Bon Jovi on the Xbox, or killing each other through the conference role-playing card game, Eschaton. Of course, game designers, social scientists, legal and law enforcement experts from as far away as Helsinki did not trek to the city just to hang in an arcade. In the span of two jam-packed days (there wasn’t even time for a lunch break on the last day), speakers fast-forwarded through their experiences of working with(in) virtual worlds in the panels I attended:
- Opening Keynote: A New Kind of World, Raph Koster
- Current Legal Issues for Virtual Worlds
- Beyond the Magic Circle
- Economies and Economics
- Developer Roundtable
- Security and Surveillance
- Lunch: Old Media, New Media, and New New Media
- The Laws and Governance of Virtual Worlds
- Studying Virtual Worlds
For me, the surprise hit of this year’s conference was the Security and Surveillance session, which featured such unlikely speakers at a gaming conference as an ex-Scotland Yard detective and a Special Deputy United States Marshal. When Charles Cohen, the officer who heads Indiana State’s Special Investigations and Criminal Intelligences Sections, talked about the similarities between the murder scene of a young girl and the fantasies that her father had simulated in virtual worlds, it really drove home that:
- Virtual and real worlds are increasingly blurred and real people are being impacted.
- Virtual worlds could potentially inform real world behaviors.
State of Play 2009 was unique in that most panelists attended their colleagues’ sessions and were incredibly accessible to attendees. The comraderie between industry experts and participants was evident online and off, which made the conference not only a success but truly fun. What did you like most about #sop09?
The members of the meetup gathered last night at Tishman Auditorum in New York University's Vanderbilt Hall located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood. In spite of the rain, there were about 200 attendees, there to hear presentations from companies, including:
- Epix, a joint venture from Lionsgate, MGM, and Paramount, is a new cable channel that will be launching on cable systems later this year and also online. It will contain movies and original programming from each of the studio partners, content previously available only on Showtime, and potentially be free to view online depending on your cable provider.
- Motionbox, whose technology is now powering video on Shutterfly's Web site.
- Tremor Media, demonstrating its new pre-roll technology to better engage viewers with the content, allowing them, for instance, to select to see more of a movie trailer.
- Zixi showcased its video broadband platform which works well enough to stream a live feed from someone's home to another location across the country. The founder's family appeared live from his home.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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By murat at Centrl
We have just added new exciting layers in Centrl. Now you can access great content from 11870.com, Oodle.com and Google Base easily in Centrl as a map layer around you.
11870:
“The best services in your area. The service guide with reviews and images by friends and users.”
Find luxury hotels in Buenos Aires, tapas and flamenco in Madrid, shopping in Paris or bars in New York using our 11870 layer in Centrl.
Oodle:
“Buy, sell & trade locally. Oodle - a smarter classifieds site”
You can find that great rental apartment listed on Oodle from within Centrl as easy as 2 clicks. Type in some keywords like “1BR” and see all the available rental apartments around you.
Google Base:
“Post it on Base. Find it on Google.”
You can find great rental apartment listings from Google Base easily in Centrl. Again, type in some keywords “2BR” and you will see all the active listings around you on the map.
Please enjoy these new layers and let us know what other new layers you would like to see in Centrl at feedback at centrl dot com.
NYConvergence ORIGINAL Tweets tagged "#140Conf" which are from attendees or people following along on the micro-blogging service are being published on PepsiCo's "Zeitgeist." The site was originally established to monitor Internet Week chatter. You can view the tweets on the Web site here. The 140 Characters Conference is taking place at New World Stages in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood June 16-17.
NYConvergence ORIGINAL The NYC-based video curation and publishing platform is launching a contest with the organizers of Twitter-focused 140 Characters Conference, scheduled to take place June 16-17, 2009, at New World Stages in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood. Winners will be selected from participants with the best answer submitted via video to the conference's channel to the following questions:
- Monday's Question: "What's Your Best Twitter Story?"
- Tuesday's Question: "Can Twitter Change The World?"
Magnify's blog
[Editor's Note: Magnify powers NYConvergence's NYConvergence TV channel.]
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