Citi Bike Share Program Launches With 6,000 Bikes Across New York City | HuffPost
The privately financed program – called Citi Bike, after lead sponsor Citigroup Inc. – kicked off with 6,000 bikes at more than 300 stations. Plans call for expanding it to 10,000 bikes docked at 600 places in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Riders now can unlock the three-gear, cruising-style bikes from any station, take them for 45-minute rides and return them to any rack.
Rachel Haot is making waves both in government and in the technology community as a whole. New York City’s first chief digital officer is trying to make New York the country’s leading digital city by bringing industry and government together.
Last week, New York’s beleaguered Metropolitan Transit Authority announced plans to sell advertising on the front of the MetroCard. Soon, for prices ranging from 18¢ to 51¢ per card, advertisers will have free reign to replace the MTA’s ubiquitous blue-and-yellow swoosh (which hasn’t…
A giant, roaming, global dinner party capped off with a celebration in NYC, all to change the world.
Public voting is now open for NYC BigApps 3.0! We received nearly 100 submissions this year, a new record. Browse the gallery to see the submissions and vote daily through Wednesday, March 8th for your favorite app to win the Popular Choice award.
As part of the City’s ongoing efforts to increase transparency in government, and to improve the quality of life for New Yorkers and visitors, BigApps 3.0 made more than 230 new datasets available from more than 60 City agencies, commissions, and business improvement districts, for a total of nearly 750 data sets for developers, available at NYC Open Data.
Thirteen prizes will be awarded in total, including two Popular Choice Application winners. Winners will receive cash prizes totaling $50,000. We’re also giving away two NY Tech Meetup demo slots, two TechStars finalist spots, and membership in the first BigApps Founders Network, to provide mentorship, networking, and business support services to help the winners get their startup businesses off the ground.
For more info, visit www.nycbigapps.com. Don’t forget to vote!
How’s your app coming along? The deadline for NYC BigApps 3.0 submissions is coming up January 25th. For inspiration, we checked in with previous BigApps winners for words of wisdom for this year’s competitors. Read on for insights from Aaron Royston of Sportaneous, which is a location-based…
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Check out photos of NYU-Poly’s new DUMBO Incubator for digital media and tech startups, part of the City’s network of affordable workspaces, where they held an open house last week. Located at 20 Jay Street, the DUMBO Incubator offers more than 30 dedicated work stations and an equal number of flexible access work stations, as well as networking and mentoring opportunities and business assistance for entrepreneurs. Featured speakers at the event included Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky, NYU-Poly President Jerry Hultin, DUMBO Improvement District Executive Director Alexandria Sica, and Two Trees Management Director of Leasing Caroline Pardo.
Read more about the growth of tech startups in DUMBO, Brooklyn in the Wall Street Journal: “DUMBO is Jumbo with Tech”
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CEO Jack Dorsey announced that New York City has more Twitter users than any other city in the world and the second most Twitter developers. The first part of the news comes at no surprise to most New Yorkers, a city of 8 million with one of the highest concentrations of smartphone addicts in the world. But it is surprising that New York City has the world’s second highest number of Twitter developers. Mayor Bloomberg’s vision for New York City to be the tech hub of the world may not be that far off. (via New York City has more Twitter users than any other city - The Next Web)
Yesterday, the City of New York unveiled exciting programs as part of its contract renewals with Time Warner Cable and Cablevision. These include:
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Great overview of New York City’s digital roadmap by Mashable’s Todd Olmstead.
