Reprinted from my post on Google+. I get a pretty good demo of the camera, then Ren Ng comes over (he's the genius who developed this technology while at Stanford — he's been working on this for eight years) and we have a chat about the technology. If you are interested in this camera, you'll [...]

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“You have cancer!” These were the scariest three words I have ever heard and they were uttered to me in March of 2008 over the cellphone while I was on vacation. My initial reaction was…well, it was this:“What? Did he just say that? Me? Seriously? How is this possible?” Which then quickly turned into, “I do not want to die!”Clearly this was unexpected news. I was at the top of my game in my field running a successful agency and living a healthy lifestyle. I ate right and was rather young for bre [...]

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As RIM's BlackBerry servers and associated services begin to return to normal, company founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has taken to the Canadian-based company's YouTube channel to personally apologise for...

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As RIM's BlackBerry servers and associated services begin to return to normal, company founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has taken to the Canadian-based company's YouTube channel to personally apologise for worldwide outages affecting customers, detailing exactly what happened for such a prominent service to be unavailable for so long. Echoing a written statement on BlackBerry's [...]

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Have you ever found yourself faking a trip to the restroom to check your email on your phone or slept with your laptop?  Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, is definitely guilty of sneaking off to a fake bathroom break to text, email and tweet and this habit has caused her to ask, “What have we become?”  We are all so uber-connected these days that it can be overwhelming and so she set out to create a film about what it means to be connected in this day and age.  The resul [...]

Read More: Filmmaker & Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain On Her Thought-Provoking Documentary ...

In Podcast 51, PostSecret.com founder Frank Warren discusses the new $1.99 PostSecret iPhone app. The app does not require a sign-up. It lets you anonymously post secrets as well as read the ones that are selected for publication each week. You can see the general location where secrets are posted from although the identifies of the person posting is anonymous. Crisis hotline information is also available in the app.


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Ok. That's a slight exaggeration but it's fascinating nonetheless.In the earliest days of social media, users relied on some of the most obscure methods to broadcast news to their friends. Or at least, that's what Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley said in an interview with Kevin Rose.Crowley, looking back on simpler days, recalls recognizing the trend in cellphone usage where users would shoot text messages to their friends to alert them to where they were headed or where they were located.Early [...]

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Mike Lazerow co-founder and CEO of Buddy Media was hooked on Facebook immediately after logging onto Zuckerburg's social media site during Facebook's early days.

In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Lazerow discusses Buddy Media's growth and how it coincided with Facebook launching fan pages for companies and brands. Lazerow's team thought "companies [were] going to have to control content and need analytics behind that content ... so we launched ... the Facebook Page Manag [...]

Read More: (Founder Stories) Mike Lazerow: Facebook’s Brilliance? “Knowing Who They Were Very Early On”

Social Media Club Founder, Chris Heuer shares his thoughts on where SMC has come from, where our organization is going and thoughts on the evolution of social media. A few of the folks who attended our first SMC meeting in San Francisco on August 16, 2006 attended a dinner last week to celebrate our 5th anniversary, and also took part in a short video interviews. We will be sharing these over the coming weeks.  

Read More: 5th Anniversary Interview with Founder, Chris Heuer