Admit it: if you saw what appeared to be people – as in, real human people – flying in the sky without the aid of jets or parachutes or any other assisting apparatus, you’d probably pass out into a puddle …

Looking to tap into some East Coast talent, Facebook has just announced that they will be opening a brand new engineering office in New York City. It will be their first engineering office outside the West Coast. “More than 800 …

As she grows in size, Hurricane Irene gets closer and closer to the United States’ eastern seaboard. While Florida looks like it will escape much of Irene’s fury, other states may not be so lucky, and when you take a …

Meet Casey Neistat, a documentary filmmaker and one of the two stars of The Neistat Brothers series that appears on HBO. Like most creative people in today’s generation, Neistat is an active social media user, complete with a Twitter account …

The iconic Empire State Building (ESB) has made a move into social media with the launch of a Facebook Page and a Twitter account.

On Facebook, people can post comments, share their photos, view images taken by others, purchase tickets and receive news about the building.

On Twitter, people can follow the ESB Observatory for real-time updates.

In the social media world, it is so important to try to do things that haven’t been done before. Why? Well, since social media is so new and the applications of it have not even begun to be thought of yet, you must be a risk taker by default to see if it will work for you and your business. We hear more about social media flame-outs, which I attribute to our human nature to feel that news is mostly negative. Fortunately, there have been some risk takers that have had success worth discussing.

Google has partnered with New York City to launch a new Web site that makes it easier for users to explore the city.

New York City has the largest amount of technology workers in the U.S. according to a new study from the American Electronics Association (AeA)

New York City led the nation with 316,500 technology jobs in 2006, according to the most current data available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The region added 6,400 tech jobs in 2006, the second fastest growing cybercity behind Seattle, which added 7,800 jobs. The average wage was $91,500, 46 percent higher than the average private sector wage in the area.