B.Yetman

> Them: I don’t care, just grind the sausage faster.   >  > Also them (at release time): Wait did I say sausage, I meant filet  Working on a product is hard, especial...

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I was walking through Union Square Greenmarket this weekend and was reminded of one of the most important Product lessons i ever learned: FIND YOUR VEGETABLE PEELER.  This particular lesson c...

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Serious flooding in buildings and subways around the southern tip of Manhattan, here’s One New York Plaza the morning after the surge. Our building flooded as well, though the only thing that w...

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I’m hunkering down today waiting for Sandy to arrive here in NYC, and i thought I’d take a quick look at who’s mapping it. Here’s a quick cartographic countdown as the storm approaches (c...

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Remember the first time you saw @mraad ’s heatmap of MBTA card swipes ? Ok well i do, and every so often i see something that generates that same ’dude that’s so cool’ nostalgia. Enter th...

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Like many, exercise is one of those essential activities to keep me going… so a couple times a week i wake up way to early and drag myself to the gym. I used to pass this time watching the m...

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Every election we see a bunch of red and blue patchwork maps, usually displayed as states are being called, and of course on the front page of the paper the next morning.  This election however,...

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On September 11th 2001, off-duty firefighter Stephen Siller  abandoned his gridlocked pickup truck at the mouth of the Brooklyn Battery tunnel and ran the 3.5 miles to the World Trade center wi...

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You know that neurotic data czar down the hall that’s always bragging about his GIS data organization skills… yah, get ready to blow his mind. Modern-day mapmakers and classic cartographers ...

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What do WATER, SUNSHINE, and stereos blasting music at NIGHT have in common? Thanks to MIT, not just Spring Break in Florida anymore… MIT released news today of a “Major Discovery ” t...

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I recently had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Joel Grossman  cover a bunch of work he’s done in recent years, and as usual i was totally blown away!  Using historic maps and methodical res...

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Outside.in has taken another huge step down the path of location based innovation, bringing us one step closer to better connecting content with geo-context; introducing the GeoToolkit .  Launc...

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“My experience living in New York was that all the interesting people came from somewhere boring.” - Jennifer Kelly , interviewing Langhorne Slim (via nickdouglas )

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Around the 5 boroughs there are an increasing number of LIVING WALLS beginning to sprout up, giving a more literal meaning to the phrase URBAN JUNGLE . This technique of building construction...

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At 7am this morning the water started flowing, and from now till October you can see it in 4 different locations around lower Manhattan . THE NEW YORK CITY WATERFALLS  is a collaboration by ar...

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Zakaria Quote Of The Day : fred-wilson : >>  Europeans prefer complexity, the Japanese revere minimalism. But >>  Americans like size, preferably supersize. >  >  

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Thanks to Damian Spain’s recent photos  of the Google StreetView car getting pulled over, we’ve all had a good laugh at some poor driver’s expense. But, taking a closer look at the sensor...

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SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR OUR STUFF? While that’s still a bit of a stretch,  a new protocol implementation hit the street today that could definitely make that concept a reality. C02 sensor in B...

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For a guy that shoots 90% of his video with an N95, i’m far from a day to day frame puller. But, like most gadget-obsessed techies, i’ve lusted over the Red One  since the day i saw it’s...

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If you thought Scoble can rattle off a barrage of twitter traffic like no other, get ready to be amazed; the automated noise is here. The guys at BugLabs  have come up with a new app to generat...

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