By Myles Tanzer 9/24/12 1:21pm

NYU Tech

Zach Simms (Photo: Twitter.com)

NYU and Codecademy Partner To Teach Coding To Undergrads

With UPenn making moves on the title of “Stanford of the East” and Eric Schmidt advising Cornell on the evolution of its new tech campus, NYU doesn’t want its students left behind in the college tech revolution. Hence the school’s new partnership with Codeacademy. Students in the Steinhardt School’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) can now opt in to a ten-week course where NYU professors and Codecademy instructors will teach them how to code. Read More

By Jessica Roy 5/15/12 8:24am

Founder Fun

Ms. Ray and Mr. Brown

Founder Swap Wants to ‘Get Startups Pregnant with New Ideas’

If Wife Swap is one of your guilty pleasures (ahem), then you might get a kick out of Founder Swap, a project created by the makers of Scroll Kit, Kate Ray and Cody Brown, [Editor's note: along with Jonathan Basker of Betaworks] which aims to inject fresh talent into startup teams. On June 1st, New York-based early-stage startup founders will swap places with the hope that the project will help foster new ideas among the participating companies. Read More

By Jessica Roy 4/24/12 1:59pm

5 Minute Pitches

Mr. Skiff (ericskiff.com)

New Web Series Spotlights New York Startups

Unless your company is driven by big-name investors, it can be difficult to get press coverage for your fledgling startup until you’ve raised a significant amount of funding or kicked up some controversy. At least that’s the theory behind 5in5NYC, a new web series from entrepreneurs Eric Skiff and Kunal Shah that spotlights some of New York’s most compelling budding companies. Read More

By Nitasha Tiku 2/14/12 3:28pm

Love in the Time of Algorithms

vday

Scroll Kit Lets You Make Customizable Valentines for Your Secret Crush

Scroll Kit, the latest brainchild from the Bushwick-based team of Cody Brown and Kate Ray, demoed their new product at last week’s New York Tech Meetup to an admiring crowd. As Mr. Brown’s elevator pitch goes, the publishing tool lets anyone “make magazine-style layouts for the web and iPad without knowing how to code.”

Now that they’ve got your attention, they decided to have some fun with it, by putting the DIY back in Valentine’s Day love notes. Read More

By Ben Weitzenkorn 2/09/12 5:02pm

NYTM

New York Tech Meetup Blog

Youngest Person in New York Tech Meetup History Demos iPad App

NYU’s Skirball center was at capacity last night as roughly 850 people crowded into the once monthly New York Tech Meetup to celebrate the defeat of SOPA and PIPA, and check out some startup demos.

Last night was also special (and started late) because the meetup was simulcast on Livestream for the first time in many months, so everybody at New Work City and New York General Assembly could join the NYTM remotely.

The big news: NYTM announced two new sponsors: Bloomberg and Nasdaq. Nasdaq has apparently been “shooting awesome video of the tech startups that are being built here.” Read More