The China Digital Times asks, How Old is [Chinese gymnast and gold medalist] He Kexin (何可欣), Really? The answer is 14 (or possibly 13), well under the age limit of 16. More importantly, the site dug out the Google cache page (above) dated November 2007 that clearly shows the girl’s age to be 13 at […]
Social action in person
Spent Wednesday night at a new event in San Francisco called awareness2action that drew 40-50 people to the DragonBar in San Francisco’s North Beach. Put together by uber-networker Sundeep Ahuja, the gathering’s objective was "to connect with others leveraging the web to convert awareness to action, and share best practices." Among the folks I met: […]
Kaltura: open source video
Kaltura: open-source video from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I’ve been following Kaltura for about a year now. It offers a terrific open-source platform, toolset and nearly free video hosting solution for small and large companies and nonprofits. (I think I have that right — it’s hard to explain what they do in a single sentence.) […]
4 tips for shooting live events
Last month social media consultant and photographer Josh Hallet (Hyku on Flickr) not only took some spectacular photos at BlogHer under difficult lighting conditions — but also managed to upload them in near real time. I asked Josh for his tips, and here they are: Shooting live events and publishing them quickly 1. Gear: I […]
23andMe: DNA and blood ties taken to the next level
Just a quick word about a website and service I had heard about but never really looked into until I sat next to Esther Dyson at the Aspen Institute roundtable I attended last week. Esther — who’s on the company’s board, an investor and a customer — gave me and VC Arjun Gupta a demo […]