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hackNY is a program that brings student hackers from universities around the country to New York City for paid summer internships. The hackNY Fellows are matched with startups in the city and participate in a 10-week program that includes mentoring and lectures by investors and entrepreneurs.

The program is co-organized by professor Evan Korth from NYU and Columbia University's Chris Wiggins, and this will be its second summer. This summer, in the words of hackNY, will be "twice as awesome" due to funding that will enable it to double the number of students it can accept.

The New York tech scene is hot right now. Business Insider argued last week that "if your startup can't get money in New York right now, there's something wrong with it." And just as investors are ready to inject cash into local startups, a group of local startups are looking to inject some more hackers into the scene.

Their plan: Adopt a Hacker.

Adopt a Hacker is a not-for-profit organization that hopes to bring hackers from outside the metropolitan New York area into the city. Hacker Hosts open their homes to visitors, giving them a place to crash for a few days. But it's more than just a way to save money while checking out New York City. By staying with someone connected to the startup community, it's a great way to get an introduction into it.

In what's bound to be a boost for an already thriving tech startup scene, the Boulder-based incubator TechStars announced today that it is opening a program in a new location, New York City. This will be the fourth city into which the program has expanded, joining Boulder, Seattle, and Boston.

TechStars is accepting applications now for the NYC Class of 2011. The deadline for applying is November 21, and the inaugural program will kick off in New York in mid-January of next year.

Today marks the beginning of Internet Week in New York City, an open event taking place all over the city that is "celebrating New York's thriving Internet industry and community." Started just two years ago, the festival is expected to draw more than 20,000 people to hundreds of official and unofficial events, a number of which are custom tailored to the startup community and should be on the top of the agenda for entrepreneurs in the Tri-State region.

In February, Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams announced the city would put $500,000 towards a seed fund to help encourage regional startups. And on Friday of last week, the Portland Development Commission announced it had finally chosen the five local business leaders to help launch the fund, predicting it would be "open for business" by the fall.

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From May 19th to 20th, mediabistro will hold its Web 3.0 Conference in New York City at the New Yorker Hotel. The conference focuses on the semantic web, mashups, text and data analytics, and how they add real-world value to end users and businesses.

Last night at a reception to kick off New York's Internet Week held at Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced NYC Seed, a seed-stage technology fund for NYC-based companies that seek to "express their original ideas through software and web-oriented technologies." Bloomberg, who is made his fortune as the founder of the Bloomberg financial news and data company, has said in the past that he intends to turn New York into a hub for tech innovation. "My company never would have been remotely as successful if we had tried to put it in any other city," he told reporters gathered at his mansion according to CNET.