Internet Week New York

Jun 16, 2011 1:05 PM

“Can You Draw The Internet?” Wows at Internet Week

One of the highlights of Internet Week New York was Can You Draw The Internet, a competition that challenged artists, graphic designers, and New York City school children to capture the Internet’s billions of websites, videos, and photos in just one image. The results were funny, surprising, and often beautiful.

Outlets charmed by the exhibition ranged from TechCrunch (retweeted more than 500 times) and Huffington Post to Babble.com and The Next Web.

Permalink | Posted on Jun 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Jun 10, 2011 8:07 PM

Digital Archaeology Exhibit on NPR

The first-ever archaeological dig of the Internet, Digital Archaeology, brought some of the Internet’s earliest and most influential websites back to life in an interactive exhibition that made its U.S. debut at Internet Week New York. The exhibit was created by ad agency Story Worldwide in partnership with Google.

Visitors had the opportunity to surf 28 bygone sites on the vintage hardware and software corresponding to the period of each site’s launch. The centerpiece of the exhibit was a display of The Project (1991), which reunited the first-ever website created by World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, with the pioneering NeXT Cube and the Nexus browser. Other highlights included leading lights from New York City’s early digital scene such as Word.com (1995), one of the Web’s first e-zines, and The Blue Dot (1995), an art and design playground by pioneering online agency Razorfish. The exhibit also featured experimental browser The Web Stalker (1997) and the self-destructing website for the film “Requiem for a Dream” (2000).

NPR’s On The Media produced an in depth segment that brought the exhibit to listeners nationwide in the way that only NPR can do (listen for yourself below). Other coverage highlights included CNN, Fast Company, Time.com, CBC, Adweek, MSNBC.com, The Next Web, Yahoo!, The New Jersey Star Ledger, ReadWriteWeb, PSFK, and New York Observer’s Betabeat.

Permalink | Posted on Jun 10, 2011 at 8:07 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Jun 05, 2011 10:08 PM

Big Apple gears up for Internet Week NY 2011

Nearly 250 crowd-sourced events, including panels, exhibits, meetups, conferences, and parties, will bring the Internet to life across New York City during Internet Week New York 2011 from June 6 – 13.

Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand, Will.i.am, Rachel Ray, Jane Pratt, Kevin Jonas, Tyra Banks, Isabella Rossellini, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, New York City’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Tumblr founder David Karp, and Pandora founder Tim Westergren are just a few of the thought leaders participating in events throughout the week.

Many outlets previewed Internet Week New York this week, using the citywide festival as a news peg to survey the state of New York’s growing technology sector. Advance features included The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Next Web, and Xconomy.

To kick off the festival, PKPR organized a Press Preview Breakfast on June 6, where the more than 150 journalists will have an opportunity to preview exhibits at the festival’s headquarters, as well as meet the organizers of events being held throughout the city.

Permalink | Posted on Jun 05, 2011 at 10:08 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Mar 21, 2011 11:22 PM

Internet Week: The future of DIY Bieber

Living up to its reputation as the ultimate crowd-sourced festival, Internet Week New York last week launched Make the Stage, an online campaign that allows the public to submit and select the live presentations for the festival’s main stage.

Now in its fourth year, Internet Week New York has fast become the world’s top celebration of all things digital. This year’s festival, which will take place from June 6th through the 13th, is expected to draw over 20,000 people to more than 200 crowd-sourced events across the city. Located at Internet Week New York Headquarters, the AOL Broadcast Stage showcases interviews, panels, and presentations by the Internet’s top brands and thinkers, with all programming streamed live to a global audience.

Check out coverage of the campaign - and Alex Blagg from A Bajillion Hits’ brilliant promo video (above), in New York Magazine, Gawker, Bulldog Reporter, AdRants, NYConvergence, PR Newser, and MediaBistro.

Permalink | Posted on Mar 21, 2011 at 11:22 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Jun 11, 2010 10:41 PM

Internet Week New York on CNN

Permalink | Posted on Jun 11, 2010 at 10:41 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Jun 11, 2010 8:07 AM

Is Internet Week the new Fashion Week?

With more than 150 event across New York City celebrating digital culture, Internet Week New York is taking the Big Apple by storm this week. Citing this year’s energy and spirit, The Economist hailed it as ”larger and more upbeat, more in the spirit of the city’s long-established Fashion Weeks.” Crain’s New York agreed, saying ”Move over, fashion; Internet Week is growing.”

Highlights so far have included the Yahoo! Provoke Summit, the Mashable Media Summit, a NY Tech Meetup featuring demos from New York’s top start-ups, The Webutante Ball (NYC’s “Internet Prom”), as well as a wide variety of conferences, panels, education events, parties, and meet-ups

For more reports from Internet Week NY, check out NPR, The Daily Beast, Mashable, NY1 , and The Star Ledger.

Our favorite quote belongs to CNET’s Caroline McCarthy, who described it like this: 

“Internet Week has turned into an amalgam of parties, conferences, and power breakfasts nearly as dense as the far more established South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas; a schedule with a swagger worthy of last year’s Jay-Z Gotham paean Empire State of Mind.”

Permalink | Posted on Jun 11, 2010 at 8:07 AM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Jun 04, 2010 11:36 PM

New York City Gears Up For Internet Week

New York City is gearing up for the third annual Internet Week New York, which will will host over 150 events between June 7-14 at the festival’s first-ever headquarters at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion and at dozens of locations throughout the City.

Reflecting both the rise of New York City as a new tech capital and the festival’s emergence as a top annual gathering for Internet leaders, the diverse slate of programming includes everything from panels, conferences, and educational events to art installations, live performances and parties. To build buzz for the festival, PKPR secured preview stories in a wide range of media including the Wall Street Journal (”Internet Week New York kicks of seven days of Web geekery”), New York Times (”Tech festivals land”) CNN (”The next Silicon Valley? It may be New York”), NBC New York (”Internet Week to be bigger and better”), Metro (”The tech sector powers up”), Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, ZDNet, PCMag, and Mediabistro. 

Permalink | Posted on Jun 04, 2010 at 11:36 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Jun 08, 2009 4:42 PM

Fortune: ‘Net Takes Manhattan

We couldn’t have written a better headline for Fortune’s wrap-up piece on the Internet Week New York 2009.

PKPR once again handled publicity for the weeklong festival celebrating New York’s Internet industry. An estimated 15,000 people, including such industry movers and shakers as Al Gore, Barry Diller, Rupert Murdoch, Martha Stewart, and Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, attended over 110 conferences, panels, exhibits, screenings, and networking events hosted by the likes of YouTube, Microsoft, Digg, Time Warner, Mediabistro, Digitas, and College Humor.  Highlights ranged from NY Tech Meetup Showcase to the first-ever Webutant Ball.

More than 100 reporters and bloggers were credentialed to cover Internet Week. Coverage included Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, New York Post, New York Observer, All Things D, Crain’s New York Business, CNET, and Huffington Post.

Permalink | Posted on Jun 08, 2009 at 4:42 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Jun 05, 2008 8:55 PM

Mayor Bloomberg Kicks off Internet Week

PKPR helped kick-off the first-ever Internet Week New York with a blast of coverage this week including a full-page Daily News story on how the Internet has changed New York, New York Post, Metro, Time Out New York, Hollywood Reporter, and CNET. In all, PKPR has credentialed more than 70 media outlets and bloggers to cover the more than 80 events happening throughout the week.

Our favorite event: the official launch at Gracie Mansion where Mayor Bloomberg welcomed the City’s digital media leaders and pondered whether his buddies on Facebook were true friends. The New York Times chimes in here. And check out this great New York 1 segment, which also features PKPR client and Internet Week event partner Arts Engine. 

Permalink | Posted on Jun 05, 2008 at 8:55 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk

Mar 24, 2008 5:04 PM

PKPR Featured in PR Week

PKPR’s strategy for launching the first-ever Internet Week New York was profiled in PR Week’s ”Launch Pad” column. In addition to securing launch-day stories in outlets such as the New York Daily News, Variety, CNET, Crain’s New York, and Mediabistro, PKPR created Internet Week New York groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites to attract potential event partners for the weeklong festival celebrating New York’s Internet industry and community. 

Permalink | Posted on Mar 24, 2008 at 5:04 PM by Patrick Kowalczyk