Fashion Week: NYMag.com Posts Insider Video Diaries

NYMag.com, which wants to be the go to alternative to the usual women's style brands, is tracking NY Fashion Week via video diaries from models Lyle Lodwick, the Kenny twins and Jacquelyn Jablonski.

Even designers are getting into the act, with Isaac Mizrahi and Christian Siriano filing video reports. A photo diary from the model photographer Elisa Sednaoui  will also be posted among other "insider" updates. NYMag.com won a National Magazine Award this year for its Fashion Week coverage last year.

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Fox News Launches iPhone App

According to an article in paidContent, the official start of the political season has led NYC based Fox News to introduce its first paid iPhone app, officially dubbed “Fox News’ America’s Election HQ”. The app will focus on politics related news and opinion revolving mainly around the midterm elections according to Michael Clemente, SVP of news and editorial. Depending on its popularity, however, News Corp could extend the life of the app past the midterms.

Features include a daily newsletter called “Power Play” which will cover the top political stories and a map showing the whats at stake in the midterm elections which include balance of power diagrams for the House, Senate and Gubernatorial races.

The app costs $0.99 and as of yet does not carry any advertising.

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The New York Times To Go Out of "Print"

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., The New York Times' publisher and chairman, recently stated that he eventually expects the paper to no longer be, well... paper. At the International Newsroom Summit this week, attendees were shocked to hear him say “We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD.”

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Fashion Week: Twitter Launches Fashion Week Site

With NY Fashion Week underway, Twitter launched a microsite, sponsored by American Express, to help fashionistas and others keep up with news from the runway and backstage.

Twitter partnered with some celebrities, publications and retailers to make this happen including @WomensWearDaily, @Bergdorfs and @AskBobbiBrown. The microsite also includes tweets tagged with the hashtag #nyfw and lets followers look at tweets by category: runway news, designer interviews, beauty trends and gossip.

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Gawker Media Traffic Surpasses All But One

Gawker Media founder, Nick Denton, sent out a memo this week to discuss his company's increase in domestic visitors to its various blog sites.  In this memo, Denton states that they have “overtaken both the Washington Post and USA Today, according to Comscore” leaving them second behind the New York Times. 

Denton believes that Gawker Media no longer considers online newspapers as their biggest competition, but instead AOL and Yahoo.  

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NYC's VillageVines Expands, Partners with MenuPages

New York-based VillageVines, a web start-up that offers members discounts at high end NYC restaurants, is extending its reach to Washington, DC starting this week, and will operate in LA, Chicago and San Francisco shortly.

The company is also partnering with MenuPages, which will expose the company's deals to a larger audience. VillageVines, which is only a few months old, has 400,000 registered users, and projects $250,000 in revenue by the end of the year.

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NY Television Festival Returns Sept. 20 to 25

The New York Television Festival, back for its sixth year, takes place Sept. 20-25. The festival provides a platform for independent television, uniting artists,industry execs and fans. The FOX series "Running Wilde", which shoots in NYC, will be screened on Sat. Sept 25 and the cast will be on hand to answer questions. Some free events:

• Independent Pilot Screenings, Sept. 21-23, Tribeca Cinemas

• NYTVF Digital Day, Friday Sept 24 at SVA Theater

• NYTVF Development Day, Sat Sept. 25

To reserve tickets or more information visit the Festival website here.

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Mashable Lists Nine Free Apps For Exploring NYC

Mashable put together a list and some demos of nine free mobile apps that can be used to explore NYC. Some apps on the list:

• NYC Way -- an inclusive app that can help users find street vendors, nightlife, tourist attractions, subway stations etc.
• Coovents -- a location-based app that shows happy hours going on right now and provides a map so you can get there.
• MoMA -- an app that gives an audio tutorial about paintings at the museum.
• Wayfinder NYC -- an augmented reality Android app that helps people find subway, bus or train stations near them.

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East Village 'The Local' to Launch September 13

Back in February, The New York Times announced  that they were collaborating with NYU to launch a hyperlocal site in the East Village as part of their hyperlocal news initiative called 'The Local.' This week the Times announced that the site will launch on Monday, September 13 and will have a feature, created as a Wordpress plug-in, which allows all registered users of the NY Times to view available assignments.

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Park 51 Website Unveiled by Islamic Project

Launched earlier this week, Park 51 is the new website for the planned Islamic community center near Ground Zero.  The website’s facilities section emphasizes a neutral “prayer space” instead of a mosque.  The goal of launching the new site is to “distinguish them from fake twitter accounts and to have a formal blog” Oz Sultan, head of social-media relations for the group, said to The Wall Street Journal.

The project and site are separate from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Cordoba Initiative and ASMA (American Society for Muslim Advancement) headed by Rauf’s wife, Daisy Khan.  It is unclear if Rauf and Khan will pull out from the project or take a smaller role with the launch of the new website. 

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Blumenthal Accused of Squelching Internet Commerce

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal,  wrote a letter to Craigslist asking it to confirm that it has permanently closed its adult-services section, The Wall Street Journal reports. Craigslist removed the ads from its site Friday, and replaced it with the word "censored."

In a New York Post opinion piece, Jacob Sullum, said that fighting prostitution is not in the proper scope of the state's AG, but is part of Blumenthal's campaign for U.S. Senate, "in which he portrays himself as a crusader," unafraid of special interests. He accuses Blumenthal of squelching free speech and Internet commerce in a bid for publicity.

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Fashion Week: Webcasts Put Viewers in the Front Row

Starting today, Zeitbyte, an NYC based digital media services company, will be webcasting 88 of the runway shows taking place at the tents of Lincoln Center for Fashion Week. The company will also be webcasting 18 shows from Milk Studios.

All webcasts and broadcasts will be able to be viewed on the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android based mobile phones.

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[Editor's Note: Zeitbyte is a client of Trylon SMR, publisher of NYConvergence]

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