Digital Wesleyan, launched in 2010, is a networking group of Wesleyan University alums working in the NY tech industry. The Conneticut based university isn't known for computer science prodigies, but the tech philosophy that champions empowerment, democratization and bottom-up vs. top-down is [Full Story…]
Blip.tv Searches for New CEO
November 18, 2011 at 9:41 am
NY-based Web video distributor Blip.tv is operating without one of its co-founders, and another one is leaving the company, All Things D reports. After Mike Hudack, the CEO of the company, went on medical leave more than a month ago, the company’s board and managers have been interviewing [Full Story…]
NY Video Meetup: Streaming Synchronized TV and a Rapping Taxi (#nyvideo)
June 24, 2011 at 10:02 am
by Lauren Keyson The NY Video Meetup held its monthly meeting in the East Village at AOL’s headquarters earlier this week where five diverse video companies demoed their newest services. The most noteworthy was Dollar Van Demos, a live video/taxi service located in underserviced areas in [Full Story…]
NYTech Meetup: SleepsWithTheFish.es Steals the Show (#NYTM)
June 8, 2011 at 5:02 pm
by Lauren Keyson At last night’s NYTech Meetup, Hastings high school student Alex Godin stole the show with his viral game SleepsWithTheFish.es that is played over Twitter and challenges people to trick others into clicking on bit.ly links. “So I decided to spend a week [Full Story…]
Dina Kaplan Talks Web TV Trends
March 6, 2011 at 4:08 pm
In a recent interview with Talk NYC, Blip TV co-founder Dina Kaplan explained the the three biggest trends in online viewing. The first trend that she discusses is that longer shows are getting more and more views and average viewing time has jumped from 4 to 17 minutes, meaning that online content [Full Story…]
NY-Based Blip.tv Increases Payouts to Content Creators
July 9, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Independent web video platform Blip.tv has increased the number of payouts to its content creators by 77% between Q1 and Q2 of this year, according to co-founder Dina Kaplan in a recent Mashable interview. Based in New York, the company recently celebrated its fifth year anniversary, recording [Full Story…]
Clay Shirky Talks and Startups Demo at NY Tech Meetup
July 7, 2010 at 10:44 am
NYConvergence ORIGINALLast night at NYU's Skirball Center For The Performing Arts, it became clear that the NY Tech Meetup had settled in nicely to its new home when guest MC Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv, announced a capacity crowd of 850 people in attendance. The packed house [Full Story…]
Internet Week NY: Blip.TV Grows With the Tech Community
June 7, 2010 at 1:20 pm
As Internet Week kicks off today, Blip.TV's co-founder Dina Kaplan recalls in a Metro article on how five years ago, NYC was a no-man's land for Internet and tech startups. Now she says that she can’t go to SoHo’s Cafe Select "without seeing Web gurus like herself."Much [Full Story…]
NYC Tech Startups’ “Culture of Optimism” Featured
April 20, 2010 at 4:17 pm
This week's New York magazine cover story profiles the tech startup scene in NYC, taking a look at the young, enthusiastic entrepreneurs who created these companies, their ideas and their "culture of optimism." Location based social media startup Foursquare is featured [Full Story…]
Social Media Experts To Discuss PR, Marketing Trends
November 16, 2009 at 12:48 pm
New-York area social media experts will be discussing public-relations and marketing uses for these tools this Friday, November 20, at an all-day, interactive forum called PR Camp New York. Area experts who will be speaking include: blip.tv's co-founder Dina Kaplan Geek Factory's [Full Story…]
Web Series to Focus on Women Entrepreneurs in NY
October 20, 2009 at 9:43 am
Amy Palmer, a NY-based independent producer, is putting together a new web series called PowerwomenTV that will air on blip.tv and profile women entrepreneurs. Scheduled to launch in November, it will focus on the challenges women like Daily Candy's Dany Levy and blip.tv co-founder Dina [Full Story…]
Dina Kaplan and the Founding of Blip.tv
August 19, 2009 at 10:37 am
Dina Kaplan, co-founder and COO of New York based Blip.tv (which hosts and distributes 48,000 original Web shows), is now working to transition the company from a tech startup to a media business, according to an article in The New York Observer. The piece profiles how Kaplan started off as a [Full Story…]
Blip.tv Pays Out, But Isn’t Yet Profitable
February 11, 2009 at 4:36 pm
In a review of the online video distribution network based in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood, USA Today discusses how blip.tv is regularly confused with Web sites like YouTube and Hulu, but it's in fact, an entirely different breed. The private company syndicates user-generated [Full Story…]
Blip.tv, PRNewser Celebrate the Holidays
December 11, 2008 at 10:48 am
NYConvergence ORIGINALPRNewser held its first holiday party last night at the Heartland Brewery located at the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan last night. In spite of the midtown location, the party drew a large crowd to the restaurant's downstairs bar. Attendees got to [Full Story…]
What Should Internet Television Be Called?
July 29, 2008 at 10:16 am
NYConvergence At NYC's Webster Hall last night, a panel assembled by Blip.tv and moderated by NY Video 2.0's Yaron Samid discussed this and other online video content-related issues at a town-hall style meeting. The panel included: Robert Millis - Founder, Hudson Street Media Paul Kontonis - [Full Story…]
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