Posts Tagged ‘New York’

Despite World Series, local algorithm helps jobless New Yorkers

Friday, November 6th, 2009

NPR’s Morning Edition reports on job counseling efforts at the state of New York’s Department of Labor, and finds it’s using an algorithm developed by Burning Glass Technologies, which is based in Quincy Market.

Burning Glass develops algorithms that parse resume information and try to match job seekers with companies that will actually hire them. The job seeker in the story, a publishing industry executive, wasn’t “overly impressed” with the results, but with unemployment hitting 10.2 percent, somebody has to organize all that resume information.

Spark Capital’s Next New Networks lays off 7

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Next New Networks, a Spark Capital portfolio company, plans to lay off seven workers, according to PaidContent.org.   

The web video company, which produces comedy, fashion, celebrity gossip and other kinds of web-based TV shows, lost the political blog Talking Points Memo as a client last year.

At the beginning of the year, MHT wrote about the NYC-based media startups pulling VC dollars from New England firms like Flybridge and Spark.

New MIT project is garbage

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

MIT’s Sensable City lab plans to attach wireless sensors to pieces of garbage to track them through New York, Seattle and London’s trash disposal systems. The project is intended to show the effects of throwing something out and highlight inefficiencies in garbage systems using impressive graphics requiring a better explanation than I could give you.

Somehow, organized crime never comes up:

The project could be considered the urban equivalent of nuclear medicine – when a tracer is injected and followed through the human body.

The project has a also has a blog full of multimedia, including photos of the sensor prototypes over time. 

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