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listen to ‘Will a disaster like hurricane Sandy finally get start ups to take server location seriously?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Johnny Ives taking over design will be Huge for Apple’ on Audioboo Thoughts on why you should be exited about whats to come now that Johnny Ive is in charge of all things design at Apple.

Our SocialGreg sits down with Authors Jason Miles and Karen Lacey on their recently released book called "Pinterest Power". This is a quick-start guide to increase the reach of your products and brand using Pinterest - the hottest, fastest-growing social media site. Jason and Karen explains the motivation behind the book and talks some backstories about the book.

Download MP3 Apple Mini and Announcements / Microsoft Surface and Announcements Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You http://is.gd/oWD080 With cash reserves dwindling, Nokia looks to raise $1 billion from bonds bit.ly/QYpy9F French media finds way to make money off of Google - make it a law bit.ly/S4oy5h via @arstechnica Uber Co-founder Garrett Camp's BlackJet is Uber for Private Planes http://dthin.gs/Rch66R Speed Round:  Waze Is The Only App To Gain Meaningful Marketshare After Apple Maps Fail, Onavo Finds http://tcrn.ch/QLm1eJ Amazon Pushes Kindle To Kindergarten Kids in U.S. bit.ly/RJVS4k via @FastCompany Get a copy of the entire Web bit.ly/R7DMoR FCC Updates Small-Business Tool for Fighting Cyber Threats bit.ly/Pki5aa via @SocialGreg @EntMagazine Tips of the Week: Chrome extension blocks political Facebook, Twitter messages with pictures of kittens. bit.ly/PSMsnX Our interview of @markwschaefer - Author of the best selling Twitt

We were honored to interview, Mark W Schaefer , author of the best selling Twitter book, "The Tao of Twitter". His book is not only a primer on how to use Twitter but his "zen" philosophy on how to turn it into a real business connection powerhouse. In this interview, Mark was a real quote machine.

A few weeks ago, we were introduced to a startup in the Silicon Prairie called ActiveGrade. Active Grade is based on Standards-based grading where students are compared to an achievable standard instead of the typical bell-shaped curve. We had a chance to interview Michal Eynon-Lynch, co-founder and Director of Outreach for ActiveGrade to chat about standards-based grading and how their product, ActiveGrade helps students and teachers achieve a new learning paradigm.

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listen to ‘Great advice from author Scott Berkun #failcon’ on Audioboo - Adolfo Foronda

listen to ‘Gina Bianchini talks Ning lessons learned #failcon’ on Audioboo listen to ‘More audio advice with Gina Bianchini of Mighty Bell #failcon’ on Audioboo - Adolfo Foronda

listen to ‘Groupon talks stock price and coding #failcon’ on Audioboo -Adolfo Foronda Brief audio from Failcon with Suneel Gupta of Groupon.

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Adolfo Foronda- Interview with Hugo Fiennes CEO and Founder of Electric Imp at Maker Faire San Mateo. Seems like a simple enough idea make a chip that that talks to the web, can be put in any device, and allow developers to customize it. Holy cow is this a disrupting idea, I can't wait to play with one.

Another week and another Social Time Episode. Sean Charles (aka @SocialMediaSean) and Nerd Stalker's Greg Viloria (aka @SocialGreg) discusses social media relavant topics for the week that caught their eye - Addiction to Social Media, Twitter and Video, Google+ goes enterprise and more.  

What a great place to interview a film-maker but in a green screen room at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking . We caught up with Sawyer Steele of the Moxie Institute , writer and editor of the Sundance premiered and film-festival award winning movie  " Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology   " at the Transbay Film Festival. He discusses how they have brought the movie all over the world and how they create tools to encourage discussions around films are captured. Sawyer also discusses disruptive film distribution and the SF film-making scene. His insights are really inspiring.

I have always wanted to do a LEGO piece. The Nerd Stalker gang just got word from our friends at btrax of a special guest attending the Global Mobile Internet Conference starting tomorrow- October 19-20. President Obama. Well, almost.

by Adolfo Foronda - Nerd Stalker Maker Faire interview with Matt Johnson of Bare Conductive , makers of the electrically conductive paint for makers of all ages. With Bare Conductive products you can learn how to draw paper circuits or paint physical interactive projects, oh the possibilities.

listen to ‘The Space Jump Was Not For Science’ on Audioboo -Adolfo Foronda A brief talk about my thoughts on the Red Bull Stratos "Space" Jump.

Don't we all struggle going full digital? Sometimes a pen/pencil in hand and jotting down a note on a piece of paper just feels better, more convenient and seems faster. An Japanese App company, called Metamoji ,  reached out to the Nerd Stalker gang and gave us a spin with their app for the iPad called Note Anytime . This App allows note taking on the iPad. Note Anytime is an app that gives the user a feel of writing on paper.

So, what does a 10-year-old who loves pizza and movies do? He becomes a movie critic. At the Transbay Festival this weekend, we had the pleasure to sit down with a quite remarkable young man - Gal Balaban. This 10-year-old operates single-handedly operates a film critic blog called Film Toppings . Now, film makers, don't get freaked out by the picture above because this film critic makes some very in-depth analysis of films he reviews.

We were pleased to interview, Daron Ker, film director and director of " Rice Field of Dreams " the story of the Cambodian National Baseball Team. Baseball in Cambodia? Daron discusses his trip back to his home country and what it felt to do a film about baseball in Cambodia. His film will have a showing at the inaugural Transbay Festival  in San Francisco on Saturday, October 13 at 2pm.

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Download MP3 Nerd Stalkers Techweek Picks: Two Networks, One Company: T-Mobile Explains Why Its MetroPCS Deal Can Work http://bit.ly/TaCxVP via @AllThingsD Supreme Court case will decide whether you own your stuff http://bit.ly/TaLkXX Nissan TeRRA concept car packs a detachable tablet dashboard bit.ly/SH16Q8 via @ubergizmo Android users outraged over Motorola's broken promise - CNET News http://cnet.co/TaN5V2 RadioShack Accused of Selling Porn-Filled Phones bit.ly/OFivaE via @tecca Zynga's OMGPOP aquisition torched nearly $500,000 per day http://tnw.co/PiNrxt Speed Round: Apple's Lightning to 30-Pin Adapter Begins Shipping - Mac Rumors http://bit.ly/Pjp2rG Nissan Takes Wraps Off Driverless Car Concept bit.ly/OFiYtx via @brandchannelhub The bubble that wasn’t: what happened to ‘people discovery’ apps? | The Verge http://vrge.co/PiMNjC Raspberry Pi: Broadcom teaches kids coding in an hour bit.ly/PcBF7M via @ZDNet Nerd Stalker Tips of the Week: T

Exciting times at Nerd Stalker. We just added another podcast extending our reach to Social Media. Our Nerd Stalker staff writer, Greg Viloria, aka @SocialGreg, and Sean Charles, aka @SocialMediaSean, are hosts to our new weekly podcast - Social Time. They will be doing their podcast/vidcast via a Google+ hangout.

Adolfo Foronda- It was my honor to attend the 2012 Mac Expo in Petaluma, CA, amazing people, speakers and more. Take a listen to my recap. listen to ‘Mac Expo 2012 recap’ on Audioboo See the "Go Paperless" resources  here . See the "Get Roaring with Mountain Lion" notes and links  here . Thanks, Adolfo