Hey geeks, this is tonight (April 28)! Get your Twitter ready. 92YTribeca and Mashable present a new series of social media discussions that will have you talking all over the internet. This second installment brings together the local startup community, as we hear about projects in their infancy and the startups that have grown into…
Category: Tech
Twitter and The Oscars
The Oscar Tweets were a lot more fun than the show. Congrats to Slumdog Millionaire! (BTW, presidential prognosticator Nate Silver was 4 for 6 on the major awards. Today, he blogged about what went wrong.) Full list of winners after the jump.
The Upcoming Event Calendar: A Meta Data Driven WordPress Event Calendar for Bloggers
Intrepid readers may have noticed the link to the “Upcoming Events” on the right sidebar underneath my site search box. What is that you ask? Well, since I’m always posting about shows, and then constantly forgetting about them by the time they roll around, I wanted to devise a way to enter the show as…
Musicians and Bands on Twitter
I was randomly searching for bands on Twitter the other day, when I came across a tweet by @mashable with a link to this farily comprehensive list of artists maintained by Canada’s Gabriel Nijmeh. Some of the more active and engaging musicians on Twitter include @johnroderick (of The Long Winters), @mchammer (who must Tweet 24/7…
Is Spotify.com the Best Place to Stream Music on The Internets?
Spotify.com, the immensely popular Swedish streaming music service, is now available to everyone in the UK (it was previously an invite only beta). Apparently, folks over there seem to prefer it to last.fm, Pandora and even iTunes. I just applied for a beta invite, we’ll see if it ever shows up though, currently the product…
Nada Surf Announce Vinyl Reissues, Bell House Show!
As mentioned earlier, Nada Surf is playing a show at The Bell House, the date has now been confirmed as April 15, 2009. Tickets for that show go on sale 02/13 at noon. In other NS news, on April 14, Barsuk is reissuing The Proximity Effect, Let Go, and The Weight Is A Gift individually…