Awardee Scott Kirsner posted his take on the proceedings last Thursday night, and we did, too. Above, view a gallery of confused — and maybe a little scared — party-goers awkwardly staring you right in your face courtesy of Greg Peverill-Conti. After the jump, check out a slideshow of the All-Star scene featuring more than just bewildered heads. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Scott Kirsner’
MHT All-Stars @ the Park Plaza
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Dan Kennedy, Dharmesh Shah, Adam Gaffin and Scott Kirsner talk social media and journalism
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Blogger/media critic/Northeastern professor Dan Kennedy hosted a panel on the effects of blogging/social media/fancy technology on journalism last night featuring Hubspot founder/2009 MHT All-Star Dharmesh Shah, Globe columnist/2009 MHT All-Star Scott Kirsner, Universal Hub founder Adam Gaffin, and MHT editor Doug Banks.
Listen to hear Gaffin explain what professional journalists and the twittering mobs do and don’t do well; Kirsner talk about his attempts at hunting down a nasty commenter for an Obama-esque beer summit; Shah express bemusement at the silly journalists and their self-imposed limits on what are, at heart, capitalist enterprises; and Banks talk about transforming a newspaper’s business model during the never-ending journalistic apocalypse.
MIT Media Lab spins out two startups
Monday, August 31st, 2009Scott Kirsner writes about two spinouts from the MIT Media Lab — Waltham-based Affectiva, which makes an emotion-sensing wristband to help study autism, and an unnamed robotics startup founded by Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Media Lab’s Personal Robotics Group, which developed emotion-imitating robot Nexi.
Much more nascent is Cynthia Breazeal’s new company. I’ve been told that it’s going to develop some remotely-operated robotic toys, but Breazeal will only say via e-mail that she’s “doing something innovative in the transmedia space.” It’s not yet incorporated, and she hasn’t yet started pitching investors (though one VC I spoke to last week had already heard about it through the grapevine.) “We’re still working through the concept,” she writes, adding that the company doesn’t yet have a name.
Dan Primack’s Waltham theory/business idea
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009PEHub’s Dan Primack has his own theory on the supposed dwindling influence of Waltham:
There are no restaurants/bars/coffee shops within walking distance of the Waltham office parks. And almost none within a five minute drive.Never understood why some young VCs didn’t open up a nearby watering hole, kind of like the cops in Homicide…
Scott Kirsner called out Watch City yesterday.
Oh, snap: Scott Kirsner calls Waltham VCs irrelevant
Monday, August 24th, 2009Scott Kirsner, who has been detailing the differences between the future and the past of the local VC scene, puts Mount Money in the latter camp. Kirsner says Cambridge and Boston VCs have been quicker to embrace blogging, social networking, collaboration and a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Kirsner illustrates his point with an analogy you’re not likely to see elsewhere, and one which could make an entrepreneur think twice about being “invested in” by a Waltham VC inspired but confused by Kirsner’s advice:
I won’t be surprised if the old-school VCs of Waltham follow the same path of the Shakers, the religious sect that was most active in the 18th and 19th centuries. Shakers were celibate — they didn’t, you might say, invest in the continuance of their community — and so a group that once had 6000 or so very devoted members eventually died out. Today, their communities exist only as museums and historic sites.
Scott Kirsner gets another job on Morrissey Blvd.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Scott Kirsner continues to thumb his nose at the journalism-industry apocalypse: His Innovation Economy blog, which he used to do for the love of the game, will now generate income from the New York Times Co. (for now).
The columnist/blogger/conference organizer’s blog has moved to Boston.com:
I’m moving it to Boston.com first because it makes sense for the blog and my Sunday Boston Globe column to live in the same place, and second, because I think it’ll attract some additional traffic there. I was also part of the founding crew of Boston.com back in 1995, so it feels like a natural place to be.
Scott Kirsner looking for help with Innovation Open Houses
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009At his InnoEco blog, Scott Kirsner asks for help organizing a series of open houses where students could learn about local companies by meeting the founders for lunch and a tour.
That may be a little bit more difficult these days — in a recent Globe column, Kirsner took a look at a few companies that won’t be coming down for breakfast, including Radiospire Networks, Codon Devices and Actuality Medical:
On April 24, Favalora laid himself off, along with the two remaining employees of what had once been a 23-person company. That was the day Favalora’s dream turned into a pile of assets – some of which might still have value.
It’s suddenly a buyer’s market for all kinds of assets belonging to once-promising companies, from office furniture to patents to laboratory equipment.
Kirsner: Zipcar iPhone app available in about a month
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Zipcar’s iPhone app will be ready to go in about a month, its CEO tells Scott Kirsner, who’s pretty excited:
Zipcar showed off a new iPhone app last month at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference that got me salivating (I’m a Zipcar member): it offers GPS help finding cars that are available, and can even honk the car’s horn to help you locate it in a parking lot.
Kirsner: The Droid Works lands NSF grant
Friday, June 26th, 2009Helen Greiner tells Scott Kirsner her previously stealthy and bootstrapped startup, The Droid Works, has nabbed almost $100,000 from the NSF to develop “An Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Air Vehicle for Emergency Response.”
The iRobot co-founder’s startup is developing a flying first responder robot for emergency situations — the grant says the main challenges are “indoor flight control and safety around people.”
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