2014 should go down in Brooklyn History as the year that it became a home for household names. Etsy and Makerbot were here. Kickstarter landed here early in the year and Livestream came a bit later. Both took over large spaces. We called it the new Tech Triangle. Meanwhile, Etsy very publicly signed a ten-year lease in the coming Dumbo Heights developments.

Technical.ly’s national editorial team looked across our markets and discussed some of what we felt like were the biggest stories here, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Delaware and D.C. on the final 2014 edition of the Technical.ly Podcast.

As our founder, Christopher Wink, points out in the conversation, most of the talk is about entrepreneurship. Maybe that’s because there is so much money sloshing around in entrepreneurship that it’s hard to notice anything else. If you think we’re missing big tech news in government, civic or art space, let us know in the comments.

Some other Brooklyn-relevant highlights from our conversation: GamerGate’s Midwood hub, J.B. Michel’s artwork and the ongoing issue of net neutrality, which a few New York companies have really taken a lead on moving the pro-neutrality fight to the next level.


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We’re going to do something soon on what we think some of the biggest topics in Brooklyn were this year.

In the meantime, check out our most popular stories of the year (which isn’t quite the same thing):

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