We are happy to announce that our NYCEDC.com redesigned website won the 2012 IMA competition’s Best in Class Award for the “B2B” category! The Best in Class award is the highest honor bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards, which recognizes excellence in website design and development. Explore our award-winning website today.
NYC Media Lab Launches Media Mash
NYC Media Lab today launched Media Mash, a competition for developers and students to mash up data from the city’s top media and tech companies to create new insights, experiences, and business models.
Open to individuals and organizations with fewer than 50 employees in the U.S., Media Mash promotes collaboration between the media industry and the developer community to drive innovation. Judges will award $10,000 in prizes in professional and student categories for apps that run on the web, desktop computers, tablets, or mobile phones. Resources available to developers include open APIs, and feeds from bit.ly, CBS Sports Fantasy, Etsy, Facebook, foursquare, The New York Times, PBS, Rolling Stone, Tumblr, and others. More info about Media Mash here.
NYC Media Lab connects companies seeking to advance new media technologies with academic institutions and was launched by NYCEDC, NYU-Poly, and Columbia Unviersity to tackle the big questions facing the media industry today, with the goal of generating research, knowledge transfer, talent development, R&D, and new business models. Find out more about NYCEDC’s initiatives to support the media and emerging technology industry in NYC.
BigApps: Advice from Previous Winner Ben Sann
We’re one week away from the deadline for NYC BigApps 3.0! To inspire this year’s competitors, we checked in with previous BigApps winners. Read on for thoughts from Ben Sann, founder and CEO of BestParking.com, whose Parking Finder app took Third Prize and the Investor’s Choice Award last year. BestParking takes the hassle out of finding parking in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn by providing an interactive map of free, metered, and prohibited on-street parking for your precise stay, as well as the entrance location and calculated price of every off-street parking garage and lot.
What were the most important aspects of winning BigApps for you?
Recognition of BestParking.com’s efforts to improve the accessibility of parking information.
How has your app, company, or career evolved since winning BigApps?
We’ve expanded to additional cities and formed strong partnerships.
What are your future goals for your app, company, or self?
To provide high-quality parking information to motorists throughout North America.
Excluding your own, what’s your favorite BigApps app?
Roadify.
How do you like them apps? Check out our infographic to see how past NYC BigApps winners branched out to serve the different needs of New Yorkers.
BigApps by the numbers:
- 60 agencies, commissions and bids
- 750 city datasets tapped
- 140+ apps generated
- Nearly 14,000 voters and 5,000 followers
- Over $100,000 awarded in prizes
The benefits of the BigApps challenge? Improved citizen and city life; publicity and a chance to meet Mayor Bloomberg; and access to leading tech entrepreneurs and investors.
Submit your entry for this year’s challenge by January 25, 2012 at 5 PM EST.
