Leo Laporte. Leo Gordon Laporte (/ləˈpɔrt/; born November 29, 1956 in New York City, New York)[1] is an American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. Background[edit] Laporte studied Chinese history at Yale University before dropping out in his junior year to pursue his career in radio broadcasting,[2] where his early radio names were Dave Allen and Dan Hayes.[3] He began his association with computers with his first home PC, an Atari 400.[4] Laporte said he purchased his first Macintosh in 1984.[5] He operated one of the first Macintosh-only bulletin board systems, MacQueue, from 1985 to 1988.
Television and radio[edit] In 1998, he created and co-hosted The Screen Savers and the original version of Call for Help on the cable and satellite network ZDTV (later TechTV). Laporte left The Screen Savers in 2004, and later left the network after a dispute with Vulcan Ventures, over stock ownership and the cancellation of Call for Help. Books[edit] Podcasting[edit] References[edit] The Social Media Marketing Blog. Rachel Haywire (RachelHaywire) Jolie O'Dell. Dalton Caldwell. Dalton Caldwell (born 1980) is a technologist and digital music entrepreneur. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mixed Media Labs.[1] Biography[edit] Born in El Paso, Texas, Caldwell graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a B.A. in Psychology.[2] After graduation, Caldwell worked briefly for VA Linux (where he had previously worked as a summer intern) before founding imeem in late 2003 with Stanford classmate (and ex-Napster engineer) Jan Jannink.[3] Having raised over $50 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, imeem was one of the world’s largest music streaming services until it was bought and effectively shut down by MySpace.[4] Mixed Media Labs & Picplz[edit] Appearance at 2010 Y Combinator’s Startup School[edit] App.net[edit] Caldwell described a negative experience he had as a Facebook developer, and announced that he was starting a new network, App.net, through Mixed Media Labs.
Media[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Robert Scoble. Early life and education[edit] Scoble was born in New Jersey in 1965, and grew up about a kilometer from Apple Computer's head office in Silicon Valley.[1] In 1989 while studying in West Valley Community College he met Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and persuaded him to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the college journalism department.[2][non-primary source needed] In 1993 he dropped out without finishing his degree in Journalism from San Jose State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communications (he still has one class to complete).[3][4][non-primary source needed] Microsoft[edit] Scoble, Longhorn Evangelist In June 2003 Scoble accepted a position at Microsoft.
Fast Company[edit] On December 11, 2007, while taking part in a panel discussion at the LeWeb3 Conference, Scoble inadvertently leaked news (by loading up a post on TechCrunch) that he would be leaving PodTech on January 14, 2008, and was likely to join Fast Company. Rackspace and Building 43[edit] Wil Wheaton. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Acting[edit] Star Trek[edit] From 1987 to 1990, he played Wesley Crusher in the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This became a recurring role later in the series. Although his Star Trek character, and by extension Wheaton himself, was disliked by a vocal group of Trekkies during TNG's first run, he commented about his critics in an interview for WebTalk Radio: Later, I determined that the people who were really, really cruel – like the Usenet weenies – really are a statistically insignificant number of people.
Wheaton's popularity among Star Trek fandom is covered in a number of web comics. Post-Star Trek[edit] Voice work[edit] TV and web series guest appearances[edit] He appeared as himself in several episodes of situation comedy The Big Bang Theory, starting in the fifth episode of the third season "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" (2009). Live shows[edit] Hosting[edit] Writing[edit] Politics[edit] Tom Fishburne: Marketoonist. Guy Kawasaki. Guy Kawasaki (born August 30, 1954) is a Silicon Valley author, speaker, investor and business advisor. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984.
He was also a co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures and a news aggregation site called Alltop.[3] Early life[edit] Guy Kawasaki was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he attended the Iolani School. He cites his AP English teacher Harold Keables as a major influence, who taught him that "the key to writing is editing. Career[edit] He left ACIUS in 1989 to further his writing and speaking career; during this time, he wrote columns that were featured in Forbes and MacUser.[4][13][14] He also founded another company, Fog City Software, which created Emailer, an email client that sold to Claris.[15][16] On March 1, 2013, Kawasaki announced he would be joining Google as an advisor to Motorola.
Bibliography[edit] APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book. See also[edit] References[edit] Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary Vaynerchuk (born November 14, 1975, in Babruysk, U.S.S.R. [now Belarus]) is co-founder and CEO of a social media brand consulting agency, video blogger, co-owner and director of operations of a wine retail store, and an author and public speaker on the subjects of social media, brand building and e-commerce.
[citation needed] Vaynerchuk immigrated to the U.S. in 1978, and moved with his family to Edison, New Jersey.[1] After graduating from Mount Ida College in Newton, MA, transformed his father's Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey liquor store into a retail wine store named Wine Library,[2] and in 2006 started the video blog Wine Library TV, a daily internet webcast on the subject of wine. In August 2011, Vaynerchuk announced he would be stepping away from his daily wine video series to focus his attention on VaynerMedia, the social media brand consulting agency he co-founded in the Spring of 2009. Wine Library TV[edit] Obsessed TV[edit] Crush It[edit] VaynerMedia[edit] Brian Solis. Career[edit] Solis entered technology marketing and public relationsin 1991, working for the Dodge and Mansfield agency in Ventura, California.[6] From 1996 to 1999, he held the position of Director at The Benjamin Group, a Silicon Valley agency later acquired by Weber Shandwick.[7][8] In 1999, Solis founded FutureWorks, a digital and social media marketing company specializing in digital media, branding, and business strategy.[9] With FutureWorks, Solis led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0 startups.[10] Infographics[edit] Altimeter Group[edit] In 2011, Solis joined the Altimeter Group as a principal analyst.[14][15] He works with businesses on new media strategies and frameworks to connect companies and customers, employees, and other stakeholders.[16] He specializes in digital media and social business strategies.[7] Social influence[edit] In 2008, Solis was named as part of Silicon Valley's 40 Under 40.[7][17] Speaking[edit] Engage!
Pierre Lévy. Pierre Lévy (Tunis, 1956) is a French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence. He introduced the collective intelligence concept in his 1994 book L'intelligence collective: Pour une anthropologie du cyberspace (Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace).[1] Lévy's 1995 book, Qu'est-ce que le virtuel? (translated as Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age) develops philosopher Gilles Deleuze's conception of "the virtual" as a dimension of reality that subsists with the actual but is irreducible to it. In 2001, he wrote the book Cyberculture. Pierre Lévy currently teaches at the communication department of the University of Ottawa (Canada),[2] where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence.
Life and work[edit] Current project[edit] Awards[edit] University degrees[edit] References[edit] Jeff Jarvis. Jeff Jarvis (born July 15, 1954) is an American journalist, professor, public speaker and former television critic. He advocates the Open Web[1] and argues that there are many social and personal benefits to living a more public life on the internet.[2] Career[edit] Jarvis began his career in journalism in 1972 writing for the Addison Herald-Register, a local weekly newspaper at which he was the sole journalist.[3] In 1974 Jarvis was an undergraduate in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University when he was hired by the Chicago Tribune.[4] He completed his degree and holds a BSJ from Northwestern.[5] Jarvis is former Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News and a former columnist for the San Francisco Examiner.
He was president and creative director of Advance Internet—the online arm of Advance Publications—until 2005. He has a fortnightly column in the MediaGuardian supplement of the British newspaper The Guardian. Jeff Jarvis, 2008. Books[edit] Jan Chipchase. Jan Chipchase is the Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at Frog Design, leading the firm’s global research practice in both mainstream and emerging markets.[1] Before joining Frog Design in 2010, Chipchase was Principal Scientist at Nokia, based out of Tokyo but frequently traveling.[2] The goal of his research was to understand the ways technology works in different cultures, with a focus on understanding technology 3 to 15 years out. out.
He mostly consults for Fortune 500 companies and their local equivalents. He is widely considered a thought leader in the space of consumer and user behaviour, and how insights can be applied to the innovation process.[3][4] Most of Chipchase's research is commissioned by commercial clients and confidential. He has lived in London, Berlin, San Francisco, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and almost a decade in Tokyo. Early life and education[edit] Chipchase was born in London to a German mother and British father. Publications[edit] References[edit] Clay Shirky. Clay Shirky (born 1964[2]) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
He has a joint appointment at New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).[3] His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.[4] Education and career[edit] Shirky was the first Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he developed the MFA in Integrated Media Arts program. In the Fall of 2010, Shirky was a visiting Morrow Lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Views[edit] In his book Here Comes Everybody, Shirky explains how he has long spoken in favor of crowdsourcing and collaborative efforts online.
[edit] Nicholas A. Christakis. Alex Bogusky. Alex Bogusky is a designer, marketer, author, and consumer advocate; and was an advertising executive and principal of the firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Bogusky left CP+B in 2010.[1] In July 2010, he retired from the advertising industry.[2] In October 2010, he announced via Twitter that he would be leaving self-created post of "chief insurgent officer" at advertising holding company MDC Partners to now being the lead "insurgent in the new consumer revolution" at his new venture, FearLess Cottage.[3] Background[edit] Alex Bogusky was born on July 31, 1963 in Miami, Florida.
He attended North Miami Elementary School and graduated from North Miami Senior High School in 1981. His father Bill Bogusky and his uncle Albert Bogusky, ran Miami-based design shop, The Brothers Bogusky. His mother Dixie, was an art director for several magazines until she eventually joined the family design business. Alex is married and has two children. Advertising career[edit] Bibliography[edit] COMMON[edit] Chris Anderson (entrepreneur) Chris Anderson 2007 Anderson was born in Pakistan in 1957, one of three children.[1] His parents were medical missionaries, and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. He studied at a boarding school in the Himalayan mountains of India, Woodstock School, before moving to a boarding school in Bath, UK. At Oxford University, he studied Physics, then changed to Politics, Philosophy and Economics, to eventually graduate in 1978.[1][2] Anderson began a career in journalism, working on local newspapers, then producing a world news service in the Seychelles, and later working as an editor first on Personal Computer Games, then on Zzap!
64, both early computer magazines.[1] In 1985, he launched a publishing company devoted initially to hobbyist computer magazines, Future Publishing (based in Somerton and then Bath, UK), which rapidly grew, expanding into other areas, such as cycling, music, video games, technology, and design, going public in 1999. Chris Anderson (writer) Anderson was born in London in 1961. His family moved to the United States, when he was five.[1] He enrolled for a degree program in physics from George Washington University and went on to study quantum mechanics and science journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.[5] He later did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Chris Anderson speaking in Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley. His 2004 article The Long Tail in WIRED was expanded into a book in 2006, titled, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More.[3][6] It appeared on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list. The book argues that products in low demand or that have a low sales volume can collectively build a better market share than its rivals, or exceed the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, provided the store or distribution channel is large enough.
In 2007, Anderson founded GeekDad, a do-it-yourself blog that later became part of Wired.com. Seth Godin. Seth Godin (born July 10, 1960) is an American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker. Background[edit] Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Godin received his high school diploma from Williamsville East High School in 1978 before graduating from Tufts University with a degree in computer science and philosophy. Godin attended Camp Arowhon, where he was a valued canoe instructor.
He still frequents the camp to tell ghost stories. After leaving Spinnaker Software in 1986, Godin used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City.[2] It was in the same offices that Godin met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne. Viewpoints[edit] Advertisements on television and radio are classified by Godin as "interruption marketing" that interrupt the customer while they are doing something of their preference. Business ventures[edit] Yoyodyne[edit] In 1998, Godin sold Yoyodyne to Yahoo!
Squidoo[edit] Other projects[edit] Philip Kotler. Manuel Castells. Henry Jenkins. Don Tapscott.