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		<title>Booting Up: Tech-Mad Millennials Edition</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:16:31 -0400</pubDate>
					<link>http://betabeat.com/2012/08/millennials-tech-tesla-y-combinator-indiegogo-att/</link>
			<dc:creator>Kelly Faircloth</dc:creator>
				
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<p>Gen Y just loves working for tech companies. This study cites "flexibility," which we're just going to read as "free food." [<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/21/pf/jobs/gen-y-jobs/index.html">CNN Money</a>]</p>
<p>AT&amp;T towers are reportedly screwing with a pricey new police radio system in Oakland, California. [<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/city-of-oakland-fcc-identify-source-of-police-radio-interference-att/">Ars Technica</a>]</p>
<p>Quora assesses Y Combinator's latest batch of graduates. [<a href="http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator-Demo-Day-Class-of-Summer-2012/What-are-some-of-the-best-S12-Y-Combinator-companies-presenting-at-Demo-Day-on-August-21-2012">Quora</a>]</p>
<p>Speaking of YC: Revenue was all the rage at yesterday's Demo Day. [<a href="http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-08-22-y-combinators-young-startups-tout-revenue-over-users/">Bloomberg</a>]</p>
<p>Shoreham, Long Island is one step closer to having its very own Nikola Tesla Science Center: The Oatmeal-instigated Indiegogo fundraiser to buy the inventor's last remaining lab surpassed its funding goal late yesterday afternoon. [<a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum">Indiegogo</a>]</p>
<p>Six percent of the American population lives out of reach of broadband. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443855804577603592555436320.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>]</p>
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<p>Gen Y just loves working for tech companies. This study cites "flexibility," which we're just going to read as "free food." [<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/21/pf/jobs/gen-y-jobs/index.html">CNN Money</a>]</p>
<p>AT&amp;T towers are reportedly screwing with a pricey new police radio system in Oakland, California. [<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/city-of-oakland-fcc-identify-source-of-police-radio-interference-att/">Ars Technica</a>]</p>
<p>Quora assesses Y Combinator's latest batch of graduates. [<a href="http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator-Demo-Day-Class-of-Summer-2012/What-are-some-of-the-best-S12-Y-Combinator-companies-presenting-at-Demo-Day-on-August-21-2012">Quora</a>]</p>
<p>Speaking of YC: Revenue was all the rage at yesterday's Demo Day. [<a href="http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-08-22-y-combinators-young-startups-tout-revenue-over-users/">Bloomberg</a>]</p>
<p>Shoreham, Long Island is one step closer to having its very own Nikola Tesla Science Center: The Oatmeal-instigated Indiegogo fundraiser to buy the inventor's last remaining lab surpassed its funding goal late yesterday afternoon. [<a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum">Indiegogo</a>]</p>
<p>Six percent of the American population lives out of reach of broadband. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443855804577603592555436320.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>]</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Long Island Buys The Most Video Games of Any Place In America</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:36:06 -0400</pubDate>
					<link>http://betabeat.com/2011/10/long-island-buys-spends-the-most-money-video-games-in-america-usa/</link>
			<dc:creator>Ben Popper</dc:creator>
				
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<p><div id="attachment_18456" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><img class="size-large wp-image-18456 " title="Video_Gaming_Cities_Infographic" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/video_gaming_cities_infographic.jpg?w=1024&h=573" alt="" width="614" height="344" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Infographic via Bundle</p></div></p>
<p>Sure, we always assumed there was less to do out on Long Island than here in the five boroughs. But it doesn't seem like the kind of place with no distractions, given the sweet beaches, surfing and Hamptons crowd.</p>
<p>But according to a <a href="http://money.bundle.com/article/game-obsessed-us-cities-spend-most-video-games">new report from the finance site Bundle</a>, residents of  Huntington, New York on the North Shore spend the most on video games of any place in America. In fact they spend 4.08 times the average! And this isn't an isolated case. North Hempstead, a little ways west, comes in second in a national poll, at 2.32 times the national average.</p>
<p>Is this just a perfect storm of wealthy, indulgent parents and bored teenagers, or is something more important at work? An indigenous gaming culture taking root in L.I. so strong it makes the rest of our great nation look like a bunch of lazy, broke chumps?</p>
<p>We put the question to Twitter and it didn't take long for native Strong Islanders to give us their answers:<!--more--></p>
<p>North Hempstead native Brandon Diamond hit us up on Gchat. "It's a really wealthy community that's not afraid to get its game on. What else  are you supposed to do when you're trapped in an affluent, liberal suburbia."</p>
<p>Mr. Diamond also sent along this amazing video evidence:</p>
<p><object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LJusHaLrJC8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LJusHaLrJC8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object></p>
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<p>Here's a quick roundup of reactions from Long Island folks on Twitter:</p>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> you obviously haven't spent much time in long island</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> because it really is terrible!</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> im from LI. hmm - maybe cuz LI has lots of families/kids, but less open space for outdoor stuff like New Jersey or Connecticut?</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> LI is mostly upper middle class, has a great beach culture, but crap to do once it gets cold out.</div>
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<p><div id="attachment_18456" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><img class="size-large wp-image-18456 " title="Video_Gaming_Cities_Infographic" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/video_gaming_cities_infographic.jpg?w=1024&h=573" alt="" width="614" height="344" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Infographic via Bundle</p></div></p>
<p>Sure, we always assumed there was less to do out on Long Island than here in the five boroughs. But it doesn't seem like the kind of place with no distractions, given the sweet beaches, surfing and Hamptons crowd.</p>
<p>But according to a <a href="http://money.bundle.com/article/game-obsessed-us-cities-spend-most-video-games">new report from the finance site Bundle</a>, residents of  Huntington, New York on the North Shore spend the most on video games of any place in America. In fact they spend 4.08 times the average! And this isn't an isolated case. North Hempstead, a little ways west, comes in second in a national poll, at 2.32 times the national average.</p>
<p>Is this just a perfect storm of wealthy, indulgent parents and bored teenagers, or is something more important at work? An indigenous gaming culture taking root in L.I. so strong it makes the rest of our great nation look like a bunch of lazy, broke chumps?</p>
<p>We put the question to Twitter and it didn't take long for native Strong Islanders to give us their answers:<!--more--></p>
<p>North Hempstead native Brandon Diamond hit us up on Gchat. "It's a really wealthy community that's not afraid to get its game on. What else  are you supposed to do when you're trapped in an affluent, liberal suburbia."</p>
<p>Mr. Diamond also sent along this amazing video evidence:</p>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> you obviously haven't spent much time in long island</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> because it really is terrible!</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> im from LI. hmm - maybe cuz LI has lots of families/kids, but less open space for outdoor stuff like New Jersey or Connecticut?</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/#!/benpopper">@<strong>benpopper</strong></a> LI is mostly upper middle class, has a great beach culture, but crap to do once it gets cold out.</div>
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		<title>Long Island&#8217;s Tinychat Voted Most Popular on Facebook</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:03:49 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Adrianne Jeffries</dc:creator>
				
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<p><div id="attachment_807" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-807" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2010/12/03/long-islands-tinychat-voted-most-popular-on-facebook/glen-cove/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-807 " style="margin: 5px 10px;" title="glen-cove" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/glen-cove.jpg?w=300&h=182" alt="" width="300" height="182" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text"> Suburban houses in Glen Cove like the one we imagine Tinychat lives in. </p></div></p>
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<p><a href="http://tinychat.com/">Tinychat</a>, you sure got big  fast.</p>
<p>The Glen Cove-based company provides a simple, free web-based video  chat service where up to 12 people can join a video chat room.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/tinychat/">Facebook app</a> the  company released in August is killing it. The app already has 2.4  million users, making Tinychat the most popular video chat app on  Facebook, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/03/tinychat-facebook/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29">according  to TechCrunch</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It's easy to see why it became so popular - the  application is designed to spread virally among Facebook friends, as you  can invite online contacts to join you in a live video chat in a snap,  through Facebook Chat, without the need for your friend to have the  application installed.</p></blockquote>
<p>The best part about this success story is that the two-year old  Tinychat is 100% bootstrapped — apparently that's possible in the  suburbs!</p>
<p><strong>ajeffries [at] observer.com | <a href="http://twitter.com/adrjeffries">@adrjeffries</a></strong></p>
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<p><div id="attachment_807" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-807" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2010/12/03/long-islands-tinychat-voted-most-popular-on-facebook/glen-cove/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-807 " style="margin: 5px 10px;" title="glen-cove" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/glen-cove.jpg?w=300&h=182" alt="" width="300" height="182" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text"> Suburban houses in Glen Cove like the one we imagine Tinychat lives in. </p></div></p>
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<p><a href="http://tinychat.com/">Tinychat</a>, you sure got big  fast.</p>
<p>The Glen Cove-based company provides a simple, free web-based video  chat service where up to 12 people can join a video chat room.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/tinychat/">Facebook app</a> the  company released in August is killing it. The app already has 2.4  million users, making Tinychat the most popular video chat app on  Facebook, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/03/tinychat-facebook/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29">according  to TechCrunch</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It's easy to see why it became so popular - the  application is designed to spread virally among Facebook friends, as you  can invite online contacts to join you in a live video chat in a snap,  through Facebook Chat, without the need for your friend to have the  application installed.</p></blockquote>
<p>The best part about this success story is that the two-year old  Tinychat is 100% bootstrapped — apparently that's possible in the  suburbs!</p>
<p><strong>ajeffries [at] observer.com | <a href="http://twitter.com/adrjeffries">@adrjeffries</a></strong></p>
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