* Reunion Year Kicking
Off
As mentioned in last
week’s edition, activity is brewing around a Silicon Alley reunion. I wanted to
let you know that in the coming weeks, I’ll be spear-heading some efforts
related to this. If you are interested in being a part of this effort, please
let me know. Some events we’ve (that’s me and my trusted friends) been thinking
of are anniversaries commemorating the first meeting for WWWAC, Webgrrls, NYNMA
and MOUSE.
What other major Silicon
Alley events can you name?
What was the seminal
event that really marked a beginning of “Silicon Alley” and the
web-internet-technology-new media industry here in New York?
Let me know!
Email:courtney@pulitzer.com
* In the past few days
the news centered around the 9/11 attacks has been increasing. Recently I read
another alarming account, which was on WomenWallStreet.com. Tucker Goodrich is
usually my supplier of really good jokes, however, last week he sent me this
link: http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&artic
leid=711. It is about
terrorists making a bomb on an airplane from innocuous parts that can get
through security individually. Bomb parts were brought into the airplane in a
McDonald’s bag and instrument cases. Her last sentence says it all: “…if 19
terrorists can learn to fly airplanes into buildings, couldn't 14 terrorists
learn to play instruments?”
READER RESPONSE:
Mark Hurst has a solution
to "information fatigue.” He states “are people still talking about that?
The cure has been known for years: Bit Literacy.” Bit Literacy (http://www.goodexperience.com/blog/archives/000027.php)
is about limiting the bits of information that invade our lives. Managing Email
(http://www.goodexperience.com/reports/e-mail/email-report-goodexperience.pdf)
is a how-to about limiting and controlling the influx of emails. Check it out!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Ezic, Inc., a high
performance digital payment processing company, announced that the newest
version of its Digital Payment Platform includes expanded IP Swipe
(Swipe-over-IP) functionality capabilities. This new expanded capability
eliminates the need for separate POS terminals or separate phone lines for data
exchange to occur. Data from a standard card reader is automatically entered
into the correct fields in the Ezic system for easy processing. The merchant
achieves the full benefit of high-speed Internet based transaction processing
at card-present interchange rates. (www.ezic.com).
* How many pairs of
eyeglasses do you have lying around in your dresser drawers? 2.5 billion people
around the world who need glasses can't afford them. Your old glasses can help
them see, read, work. Glasses For Humanity can get your glasses to those who
need them. Please go to: www.GlassesForHumanity.org/e-flier.htm
* I always thought of
David Friedensohn as a big star, and he's shining again as the newly appointed
CEO at UPOC Networks, which does mobile messaging applications. Previously
David was an executive at Prodigy and chairman and CEO of SonicNet, Advaya and
BigStar Entertainment.
