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I found out about it three times before I actually knew about it, and that’s just one of those strange things about history. I was in eighth grade and in study hall in the DPH building at Hopkins. There was an advisor meeting that morning, it being a Tuesday, and it must have been third…
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People broadcast their Nintendo sessions. Their Jägermeister. A low angle on their TV set as they prop the phone up on their couch. Someone is broadcasting his daughter’s basketball game. And another is broadcasting her baby’s bathtime. I know this because as product manager for Broadcast for Friends I have the keys to the castle–that…
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I am really excited that we got so much good press for Broadcast for Friends! The app will be in the app store next week. Go here to sign up to be one of the first to download the app. Ustream’s new Broadcast for Friends iPhone app streams video directly to Facebook – VentureBeat Ustream’s…
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The reason I was in Budapest for the summer was to work on a new iPhone app, Broadcast for Friends, which we announced last night in an awesome launch party at Ustream. Check out some of the awesome press we got. Broadcast for Friends (or BFF for short) is a brand new app that allows…
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I’ve never heard their music. It doesn’t matter. There is nothing more odious, nothing creepier, nothing more outrageous than the jailing of people whose only crime were in thought, writing and expression. It is the cornerstone of a free society–which Russia is clearly not–that all people have the right to express their views, and that…
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I am a little late to the party, but I read Adam Gopnik’s piece on Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment, and I am a little disappointed that he fails to understand Adam Smith’s message, or if he does, he has failed to represent his position correctly. Gopnik should know this, having reviewed Nicholas Phillipson’s…
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It was Thursday night and I found myself in the seizième arrondissement taking a video of my French friends taking a shot of Unicum for the first time. Their faces were distorted in pain, a look that any Unicum pusher knows so well and delights in. After our Unicum, we found ourselves at a bar at…
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The Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb is just what it sounds like: a museum that documents the story of broken relationships and lost loves. It is a small exhibition, with only 5 or 6 rooms, but its size is reflective of its intimacy, as guests come from all over the world–it’s a traveling exhibition…
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In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of AMERICA. WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another; and to assume, among the Powers Of The Earth, the separate and equal Station to which…
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I was at Budapest-Keleti this morning for one of my weekend trips out of town, and I had a couple minutes to kill before boarding so I pulled out my current book, Catch-22 (I know, I haven’t read it yet). Reading about Yossarian and his zany flight squadron while waiting for a train, I had…
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