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12/26
Andrea Goldstein has
moved on from her position as online marketing manager at SonicNet
to Manager, Interactive Marketing at Rare Medium, Inc.
12/19
Dean Tomasula, former
Senior Editor of Wall Street & Technology and most recently
business technology writer with Gartner Group, has left to join
Waters
Information Services
as editor of their new Web product, Market
Data Web Wire.
Peter Grasek is leaving Y&R's Brand
Dialogue to join the exciting world of financial services at
GFI Group.
12/12
Robin Udcoff, former
Promotions Coordinator for BarnesandNoble.com & i-traffic alumni, is now the Marketing Associate at CitySearch, Inc.
Marcos Lara just left Deloitte &
Touche, LLP to forge ahead on quite a few interesting new projects:
1. Start his own consulting firm, The Catalyst Group. 2.
"Director of IT" for a new, *privately funded* start-up
magazine named NOTORIOUS, (responsible for the health, direction and
implementation of the web site, network, DB and desk top publishing
systems). 3. Project Manager on Hertz and the technical lead for
ecommerce.
Dance Onine has launched a new section
calledTHE (.MOV)EMENT SERIES! The (.Mov)ment*
Series employs immersive virtual reality technology that allows the
user to enter the performance space from the perspective of a
dancer. Enter the performance
environment of "Antonio Caido", travel around the stage and find links to other forms of related media from within the space.
Allen MacCannell writes about their online Grocery, Deli and Catering Service on the Web at
www.Karabelas.com
or
www.nycgrocery.com. It is different from the others
in that 1) it works and 2) you can
order various quantites of various items all on one
page with out clicking through and waiting a long time
for each page to come up. There are plans for
NYCDrugstore.com to come online next week.
Director Robert Altman (THE PLAYER, THE
GINGERBREAD MAN) is developing a one-hour pilot with DOONESBURY's
Garry Trudeau for ABC Television. Working with the title SILICON
VALLEY a.k.a. KILLER APP, it will be a night-time soap taking place
in the high-tech world of Silicon Valley. The project is being
developed with the Kushner-Locke production company, who has a deal
with Altman's SANDCASTLE 5 PRODUCTIONS.
12/3
Ruben Perez, former Marketing Director of New Jersey Online, has joined
Nelson
Information as Brand Manager of Electronic Products.
Andrew Goldberger is leaving YAR
Communications to take the title of Interactive Designer at i33
Communications, for clients like Hertz and Compuserve. He will be
working with Flash to create web animations and still maintain a
heavy workload of Director, Photoshop and dynamic HTML/javascript.
Great Minds Think Alike (GMTA), Inc.
announces the launch of their new web site at
http://www.ProfitableWomen.com . Offering services that have been described as highly informative and innovative, GMTA, Inc. promotes women in business to the highest level of success.
11/14
Two CKS SiteSpecific alumni, Di-Ann Eisnor and Jennifer Nash have recently founded a new promotions agency--
Eisnor Interactive, Inc. The new shop is dedicated to
creating inovative offline events/promotions for online brands.
Joshua Fruhlinger moved from T@P Online to Web Genesis!
EarthWeb announces the addition of William
"Bill" Gollan as Senior Vice President, Online Services on
11/13. Gollan comes to EarthWeb with 20 years of experience in the
IT marketplace developing innovative interactive marketing programs
for a number of established and start-up enterprises. At EarthWeb,
Gollan will be responsible for managing all aspects of
Developer.com .
As part of its steady expansion,
R/GA Interactive
(R/GA-I) named Lisa Anderson as its Executive Producer, and John
Mayo-Smith as its Director of Technology. Additionally, Rachel Chou
has joined R/GA-I as Project Manager of The Ross School project. The
announcement was made by Robert M. Greenberg, chairman and CEO of
R/GA-I.
V-Cast Completes Management Buyout; Former
Microsoft Executives Join Board
Congrats
to the interactive game developers at
Touchscreen Media Group and Simon & Schuster
Interactive. For the second year in a row, they have brought home
the gold for their Star Trek CD-ROM series. At the 1997 NewMedia
Magazine Invision Awards ceremony held last night in Yerba Buena,
California, "Star Trek: Borg" won a Gold Invision Award
for Best Video, along with a Silver Award for Best Story/Script.
12/31
Bari Koral Band: We will be doing a live broadcast on New
Year's Eve from Walt Disney World with the Doobie Brothers, Kevin
Bacon and his band, and a host from Saturday Night Live. It's being
broadcast to 4.4 million people and they are airing 2 of our songs.
We regularly play at all the best downtown venues, we are currently
doing a tape with a producer who did one of Suzzane Vega's records,
and another producer who has worked with Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon,
Madonna and more. One of the band members of the BKB have performed
and recorded with Shawn Colvin, Jewel and others.
11/7
Congratulations to Robin
Elise Weiss and Kevin Weiss (The Mining Company's Pregnancy and
Bicycling Guides, respectively). After FOUR WEEKS of labor (?!) with
a community dialogue online (http://pregnancy.miningco.com) she gave
birth on Monday, 11/3 at 8:54 p.m. to a healthy baby boy, Issac
Forman Weiss (8lbs, 12 oz; 21.5 inches). To top it off, she was back
online WITHIN THREE HOURS, at 11:15 p.m.
10/13
Cecilia Pagkalinawan
joins
Abilon
Inc. as President and establishes its New York City office. Ms.
Pagkalinawan will manage Abilon's sales, marketing, production and
operations at the company's New York City headquarters. She recently
filled posts at Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetter (as Creative
Director and Executive Producer, Interactive), and K2 Design (as
Vice President Creative Affairs and Client Services). Ms.
Pagkalinawan is a co-founder of the non-profit organizationMOUSE
(Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools and Education).
10/07
Tom Russ has expanded
his repetoire from Sales Visionary at Neuman & Bogdonoff (the
First @The Scene Sponsors!) to Sales & Marketing Manager for Troy Associates.
10/03
Joshua Fruhlinger recently left his post as editor-in-chief of
t@p online at MarketSource Interactive in
Cranbury, NJ and has moved to NYC to be editor of WebGenesis'
The Globe He has spent 2 years in NJ at t@p after doing his
Master's on internet subculture at The
University of Chicago.
Congratulations toStephen King, President of
Virtual
Growth, Inc.
and his Dancer wife
Trish -- they are going to have a brand
new totally un-wired baby soon (but the lucky kid will never have to
worry about its accounting)!
Happy Birthday to John Perry Barlow!
(details from his exclusive intimate b-day party next week!)
9/27
Happy Birthday to
Mariel Smith , who celebrated with a cute "litter" of friends at Les Deux Lapins.
Cheryl Moellenbeck and
Dennis McCole, co-founders and executive producers of
Touchscreen Media Group, along with Tom Skinner,
Touchscreen's Senior Multimedia Producer, have just been chosen as
three of the Top 100 Producers of 1997 by the editors of AV Video
and Multimedia Producer magazine.
Jason Ordway , after a brief stint at
CNNfn, is moving up to
Cyberian Outpost in Connecticut as part of the technical team.
Patrick Neville
, also briefly with Bates Interactive Group is moving over to
Earthweb as Software Engineer.
Steve Mitra will be keeping busy as he
leavesJupiter
Communications as a senior analyst to study how telecom
influences cities at the Taub Urban Research Center at NYU (as a research fellow).
US Interactive is even
busier as they've recently added staff members to their NY and PA
offices: Jason Hammond was promoted to Senior Art Director from Art Director;
Nicole Ornstein hired as Strategic Consultant from Manager, New Media Production and Development at FAO Schwarz;
Ben Mazza as Account Supervisor from
Sales and Marketing Manager at PACE Communications; Dave Keener as
Copywriter; Josh Unger as a Producer from
Agency.com ; and
Jason Tors comes on board as Junior Art Director.
08/08
Jim Orsi is leaving his post at Time Warner to join CKS/Site Specific.
Denise Siedner will be joining Grey Advertising heading up the Dell
account...doing all of their interactive media planning and working on new
business.
07/25
Alex Chaffee resigned from Earthweb within the last two weeks.
Jesse Erlbaum (stiggy@vm.com), Lead Programmer/IT Director of Vanguard
Media, has been at it again! His "appearance" on the Howard Stern show on
7/16 was prompted by a website he created as a spoof of Howard's
arch-rival,
Tom Barnard (http://www.tombarnard.com). The conversation continues to show
that Stern is one of the most computer savvy broadcasters on the air today.
Some of Jesse's other spoof sites include: http://www.nynma.com,
http://wwwac.com/.
Dan Phillips, Editor of Web Surfer Travel Journal, has completed a revision
of FOUR CORNERS my internet travel book "Four Corners"
(http://edge.edge.net/~dphillip/fourcorners.html).
Tom Russ will be leaving as Director of Sales for Neuman & Bogdonoff
Caterers to pursue interests in the New Media arena. Tom was responsible for
putting N & B on the map as "Silicon Alley's premiere catering company"
through ads placed in @NY (Thanks Tom!) and other aggressive marketing
tactics including sending cookie platters as bribes. "Our placing an ad in
@NY has given us exposure to many of New York's top advertising, public
relations and of course New Media companies, that has really opened a door
for us,..er..them." said Tom. '. You can find Tom at:
(tomruss@earthlink.net).
Think New Ideas (part of Omnicom's Communicade unit) has a pending
acquisition of new media shop Stir Associates (http://www.stir.net). Stir
President Chris McCarthy was unavailable for comment.
Ted Werth, of Total New York and a former America Online executive, has left
Digital City to team up with news-timely Andrew Rasiej and Michael Dorf,
co-producers of the Intel New York Music Festival to launch a music-centered
online content company.
US Interactive (http://www.usinteractive.com) was selected by the National
Football League (http://www.nfl.com) for NFL Media Web site Project
The folks from YORB (http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~yorb/) have since gone off
the air with their terrific interactive TV show, but are currently working
on a new project called Neighborhood Web. With a portable viewer using GPS
technology, users will be able to see web pages about the exact place where
they're standing. This opens the door for anything from open-air Michelin
guides (the old museum audio tour breaking its boundaries) to multi-user
real-time games in real space -- Laser Tag meets Doom. Our students will be
building some samples in the next few months -- check out
www.neighborhoodweb.com starting the first week of August.
07/11
Congratulations to Carl Goodman and Jennifer Weiner on their blissful engagement! If you missed it, they had a party for close friends on 6/25 in the fab Brooklyn Anchorage.
7/8
Alex Chaffee resigned from Earthweb within the last two weeks.
Jesse Erlbaum (stiggy@vm.com), Lead Programmer/IT Director of Vanguard
Media, has been at it again! His "appearance" on the Howard Stern show on
7/16 was prompted by a website he created as a spoof of Howard's
arch-rival,
Tom Barnard (http://www.tombarnard.com). The conversation continues to show
that Stern is one of the most computer savvy broadcasters on the air today.
Some of Jesse's other spoof sites include: http://www.nynma.com,
http://wwwac.com/.
Dan Phillips, Editor of Web Surfer Travel Journal, has completed a revision
of FOUR CORNERS my internet travel book "Four Corners"
(http://edge.edge.net/~dphillip/fourcorners.html).
Tom Russ will be leaving as Director of Sales for Neuman & Bogdonoff
Caterers to pursue interests in the New Media arena. Tom was responsible for
putting N & B on the map as "Silicon Alley's premiere catering company"
through ads placed in @NY (Thanks Tom!) and other aggressive marketing
tactics including sending cookie platters as bribes. "Our placing an ad in
@NY has given us exposure to many of New York's top advertising, public
relations and of course New Media companies, that has really opened a door
for us,..er..them." said Tom. '. You can find Tom at:
(tomruss@earthlink.net).
Think New Ideas (part of Omnicom's Communicade unit) has a pending
acquisition of new media shop Stir Associates (http://www.stir.net). Stir
President Chris McCarthy was unavailable for comment.
Ted Werth, of Total New York and a former America Online executive, has left
Digital City to team up with news-timely Andrew Rasiej and Michael Dorf,
co-producers of the Intel New York Music Festival to launch a music-centered
online content company.
US Interactive (http://www.usinteractive.com) was selected by the National
Football League (http://www.nfl.com) for NFL Media Web site Project
The folks from YORB (http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~yorb/) have since gone off
the air with their terrific interactive TV show, but are currently working
on a new project called Neighborhood Web. With a portable viewer using GPS
technology, users will be able to see web pages about the exact place where
they're standing. This opens the door for anything from open-air Michelin
guides (the old museum audio tour breaking its boundaries) to multi-user
real-time games in real space -- Laser Tag meets Doom. Our students will be
building some samples in the next few months -- check out
www.neighborhoodweb.com starting the first week of August.
6/27
Congratulations to Carl Goodman and Jennifer Weiner on their blissful engagement! If you missed it, they had a party for close friends on 6/25 in the fab Brooklyn Anchorage.
6/12
Hearty heart-felt Congratulations go out to Shelly and Joshua Masur on their
newborn baby girl Julia Astrid Masur. All 7 lbs and 21 1/2 inches of her arrived
last Sunday, June 1, at 7:36 a.m. You can check for yourself at her website, but Josh--the former WWWAC list
mom--rightfully boasts, "She is simply the most beautiful child ever."
Jon Kalish does a monthly column called "Jews In Cyberspace"
for Jewish Week Newspaper. He has reported on the new media scene for the Daily
News, Newsday, Reuters and National Public Radio. He is interested in hearing
about web sites or other new media subjects of interest to the Jewish community.
So send in your spiel with chutzpah.
John Therkelsen has moved from North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority to new media at Computer Shopper. Now you know where to go to find out about the latest deals.
US INTERACTIVE announces nine new staff members.
Joining US Interactive's New York office are Trey Albers, Lance Hollander, Joyce
Pavlica and Neil Bar-or. In Malvern, PA, US Interactive has added Andrew McGrath,
Peter Schwenk, Michael Hancock, Kate Urzillo and Jeffrey Workman. Founded in
1992, USI has gained a national reputation for the creation and implementation
of digital marketing services for interactive brand management. Clients include:
American Express, IBM, AT&T, Comedy Central, Comcast Corporation, Microsoft and
Royal Caribbean International.
05/30
Jim Peake has resigned from K2 Design. Stay tuned to
findd out where he'll grace his presence next. . . . Check out the "Midnight in
Chelsea" music video by Jon BonJovi. Netcast's Danielle Chocron Gontier and
freelancee designer Fred Gontier are seen kissing in their window. Oh. Demi
Moore also makes an appearance.
IT'S SUMMERTIME and the livin' is easy . . . Ruben Perez writes that all the
information you need to have a great summer at the Jersey Shore is now
available att the New Jersey Online's official Shore '97 web site.
5/16
After winning a Broadcast Designer's Association Award for art directing
Lifetime Television's "The Place," Joanne
Borek moves over to iVillage to be the new art director for Parent Soup. Joanne is also currently a Professor of Digital
Photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
05/02
Vladimir
Lubel has just moved to Showtime from a long stint at
Chapman Advertising . . . Contrary to the rumors, Buoyant has not merged with Spiral Media. What did happen though,
was that Mitch
Golden, (director of technology), Brad Justus (executive vice president)
and Pall Walton
(chief of production) left Buoyant and joined Spiral Media. There
are also a number of Spiral Media employees who worked at Buoyant.
However, Buoyant still exists as an independent entity . . . After
several years at Citibank, Deb Schultz has made the move to independence with her
new company, DRS Solutions specializing in Internet marketing,
strategy, and development . . . Digital Pulp, agency of record to DoubleClickand BizTravel, has recently established an
advanced technology division and moved to larger offices with a
rooftop patio on 23rd street. Founder Steve Sacks is planning to hold weekly happy
hours for the New York digerati on the roof beginning in early May. Look
for Digital Pulp to make an announcement in the upcoming months.
04/18
Straight from the horse's mouth: David Schwartz writes of
his new position as director of new media at Middleberg & Associates Public Relations. He'll be handling PR, direct marketing and product branding and
positioning for new media startups. Plus on the side, he'll still be working on
content startups. Schwartz was formerly the first VP of marketing and a key
member of the launch team for Jupiter Communications. While at Jupiter he
developed some of the largest trade shows and conferences using direct mail and
telemarketing.
The dynamic Chris McCarthy has recently left Avalanche to join the talented Alec Pollack and Tery Spataro,
partners and creative directors, at Stir. They've all been busy lately with work on the
entire Olympus site, all of Showtime Online, which will be a fully
database-driven site, and the site for the movie "Father's Day" with Robin
Williams and Billy Crystal.
Ross von Burg has just been promoted Head of T1 Sales, at The Internet Channel to fill Brian Freeman's shoes. Brian is going to Adler Communications.
