Comments on: IgniteNYC on 2/23/2009

By: Idealware

Idealware — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:43:44 +0000

Tis the Season… for Cheap and Easy – and Distributed – Online Fundraising Tools…

ChipIn started the buzz with their tool for online community fundraising. The premise was simple: ChipIn allows anyone to add to their website or blog a simple interface that requests money for a goal and shows the money raised to date….

By: Idealware

Idealware — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:41:58 +0000

Today’s Debate Question: What’s an Open API?…

In N-TEN’s “Great Open API Debate” on Friday, the panelists were all in agreement: Open API’s are great, they’re the wave of the future, everyone should be using them, offering them, building them. Now there’s just one small point of clarification: …

By: Cristina2

Cristina2 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:44:03 +0000

Oh, I'm not going to name names, Noah! But no, it was a dude. Actually, that's kind of all I remember now… I loved Karen's talk, "Unchain my Heart"! It was personal, touching, smart and right up the crowd's alley re: IP and technology.

By: Allan Benamer

Allan Benamer — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:01:50 +0000

Noah, AR is mindblowing and it has a potentially bigger effect on us than some of the other pretender techs out there. And your work is really interesting, now if we can just take that and make it work for nonprofits, I think it would be a hell of a way to deliver the messages that nonprofits have to a jaded audience.

By: Noah Zerkin

Noah Zerkin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:25:37 +0000

Awww, don't feel bad for me, Allan. It was the wrong crowd, at the wrong hour, and at the wrong level of inebriation for my talk. Let's just say that I put in the talk proposal on a whim about an hour before the submission deadline (less than a week before), and I may have gotten a little too ambitious for the format. C'est la vie. I had fun, so no regrets

And Christina, are you referring to Karen Sandler? Hers was a hard talk to laugh at, but completely mind-blowing.

By: Allan Benamer

Allan Benamer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:58:08 +0000

I'm glad I made it into the demographic. I felt bad for the augmented reality guy, Noah Zerkin, since it was clear not many people in the audience knew what he was talking about. AR is the future — but many of the people there were future consumers of AR, not exactly the right audience.

By: Cristina

Cristina — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:31:56 +0000

The IgniteNYC event was also a big mixer for 20-40 somethings who would benefit from hearing speakers talking about things such as "What to do if your apartment catches on fire (and what to do before the next fire)" and "Unemployment 101".

Thankfully, the event was upbeat and fun – I would say there was only one speaker who was a sincere (and slightly scary) Denny Downer.