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The Start of Internet Week NY

I was invited to a reception at Gracie Mansion last night with Mayor Bloomberg and Katherine Oliver, who's Commissioner of The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. It was a lively, crowd with a very full house, but a great chance to see Gracie Mansion on a beautiful day and talk to some people that I haven't seen for a while.

Internet Week NY is a great city-wide unconference to celebrate technology and the internet in NYC. There's over 50 events scheduled for the week, culminating with The Webby Awards next Tuesday. As Mayor Bloomberg said last night, New York has a strong history with Technology companies from Silicon Alley to new technology companies starting in the city and that "there is no better time to celebrate our digital media sector".

I'm excited to see so many activities from interesting breakfasts to career panels to Diggnation happening over the next week. It's a great way to showcase what the city has to offer and I hope that this starts a long tradition of Internet Week in NYC.

Posted at 06:13PM Jun 03, 2008 by bs in Web.next  |