Blog entries tagged celebrity

Web 2.0 Summit Announces Initial List Of Speakers

Prakash Thulasimani — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:50:21 +0100

The Web 2.0 Summit announced the initial list of speakers participating in the event that is to take place on November 15-17 this year at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. “Program Chair, John Battelle of Federated Media and O'Reilly CEO and founder, Tim O'Reilly zero in on the theme 'Points of Control: The Battle ...

Tech Oracle John Doerr: Social/Mobile Era

sean — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:55:20 +0100

Another important and informative event at Disrupt today was the conversant with eComerce prospector and tech investor John Doerr. The man has been investing in the tech game for two decades now, as well as personally knowing most of the industry leaders. If anyone is qualified to be a tech oracle, it’s him; and that&rsquo...

Obama Criticizes Information Overload

sean — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:07:29 +0100

Sunday during his Hampton University commencement speech, U.S. President Barack Obama’s commentary on the information age took a surprising turn for the critical. First he cited the speed with which we are given information today, and the often limited credibility of that information. Then ...

Apple vs Flash: Nobody Wins

sean — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:25:16 +0100

Many of you were probably aware of Apple's stance on Flash; and if you weren't before, you almost certainly are now. The internet has been buzzing after Steve Jobs' explanatory attack against them for his fans yesterday. It seems that we are torn between who is in the right in the Flash/Apple debate. Unfortunately in this cas...

Twitter's Chirp Conference: "Will I Am" Talks About New Media

sean — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:22:25 +0100

At the Twitter Chirp Conference, few speakers were more anticipated by the general public than music celebrity Will I Am. Fortunately, unlike most pop type celebrities at tech conferences, Will actually had something of genuine interest and substance to say. He spoke to the crowd and interviewers about the relationship between the new media di...

Best in Show: Impatience-worthy Smartphones

sean — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:43:00 +0100

The Mobile World Congress ended earlier this week. It was four days of telecommunication bigwigs trying to out-do each other, and the dust has finally settled. Now that all the cell-phone caravans are packing up and leaving Barcelona, we c...

Exclusive: YPI KIDS - Photographs & Stories of the KIDS

Sunniya — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:13:16 +0100

YPI KIDS was formed in 2006 by C. Paul Denckla. The first showcase of Project: Tomorrow took place in 2007. There were 9 participants in the 2007 project. These kids ranged from 10 years old to 18 years old. The project was conducted in partnership with Maine Children's Cancer Program.This project focused on children that had cancer or were in remission. The 2008 pr...

Exclusive: YPI KIDS - More than just Photography

Sunniya — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:56:38 +0100

I am a photographer and a photography writer and through this trait I meet several interesting people and have been fortunate to work on several inspiring projects. But I have never come across anything as special as YPI KIDS. Have you ever wondered about the point where your profession becomes passion? Or when photography become more than just photography? That happens, an...

Exclusive: Mass GTUG an opportunity to experience Google technologies?

Sunniya — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:12:03 +0100

This is the last part (part 3) of the interview series with Mass GTUG Co-founder Monika Adamczyk. In the interview with Amvona, Monika highlighted her views on Google Wave, her involvement with Mass GTUG, CrisisCamp and MacoTech Inc. and she presented her views on the future of the web. For those interested Massachusetts Google Technology User Group (Mass GTUG) is open to any...

Obama on Youtube - Get your questions ready

Sunniya — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:55:37 +0100

Youtube opened up it's channel to the Copenhagen climate debate this year. Following that many corporations and individuals have made use of the Youtube channels. Like every year tomorrow is the President's State of the Union Address. What's unique about this years address is that it will broadcast live on Youtube and ordinary citizens will have any opportunity to ask f...

Lady Gaga & Polaroid - a Match made in heaven?

Krista — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:51:26 +0100

Now that Polaroid has appointed Lady Gaga as its Creative Director, it is set on making some other grand changes to it's brand and products. On the product side, Polaroid is bringing back the instant camera in two ways, which are sure to bring excitement to...

NASA Astronauts Tweet from Space - Yes, Twitter works there too!!!

Sunniya — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:23:18 +0100

We used to think that the world was going crazy over Social Media. But it's not just people on Earth, now outer space is getting dominated by Social Media too. NASA in a Press Release this morning revealed details of this new Tweet from Outer Space. NASA Astronauts aboard ISS received a special software upgrade this week that allows them to browse the World Wide Web and send T...

Breaking News: Obama introduces Clean Tech Tax Breaks

Sunniya — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:29:09 +0100

Clean Tech seems to be taking over the world by a storm. Today, President Barack Obama announced that his administration will be giving out $2.3 billion in tax credits to companies in the private sector working on manufacturing clean tech products and clean energy across the country. Wisconsin based 7 companies will receive $21 million in tax breaks. The President aims to ...

Exclusive: Interview with British Photographer Richard Hull Part 4

Sunniya — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:30:00 +0100

This is the last part of our Interview series with British Photographer Richard Hull. Richard is a brilliant photographer. He is a thinker and is very gifted. He has managed to come a far way in the past year or so that I have known him. He is not only a talented photographer but a very gifted engineer and an amazing race car designer. He uses all 3 o...

Exclusive: Interview with British Photographer Richard Hull Part 2

Sunniya — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:57:35 +0100

This is part 2 of the interview series with British Photographer Richard Hull. As stated in the previous post this interview will be published in a series of 4 entries on the Amvona Blog. I just found out that today is also Richards birthday. So here's wishing Richard a very happy birthday from every one at Amvona. I first met Richard in London in 2008. At that t...

Exclusive: Interview with British Photographer Richard Hull

Sunniya — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:28:20 +0100

Yesterday, I interviewed British Photographer Richard Hull to highlight his experience of photographing the vivid U.S. landscape, his interest in photography, his favorite photographs and to get some tips on taking amazing photos. Richard is an upcoming, self-taught British photographer and has had his work published in car magazines and guide books. His work has also been ...

Live at LeWeb - Marissa Mayer - VP Search Products & User experience Google

Sunniya — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:36:21 +0100

LeWeb - the biggest European Internet conference with over 2000 participants from 46 countries launched in Paris today. The conference will continue till tomorrow 12/10/2009. Today, around 11:00AM EST Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products and User Experience at Google was interviewed by Michael Arrington, Editor, Tech Crunch. We are...

Hodgman and Perrotta on the new artistic community

Emily K Williams — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:32:11 +0100

Living in Boston has it's advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it is the second most expensive place to rent an apartment after San Francisco. On the other hand, I can take a two dollar train ride and hear John Hodgman speak... for free.

In case you live under a rock, or just don't care to learn peopl...

Annie Leibovitz and the Obamas

Emily K Williams — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:41:47 +0100

The White House released the official portrait of the presidential family today, and guess who the photographer was... None other than our favorite down-on-her-luck pro, Annie Leibovitz.

If you haven't been following along with the blog, you can get the back story here, and here. When the deadline came to pay the $24 mil...

Julius Shulman's life hits the silver screen

Emily K Williams — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:50:13 +0100

Any documentary nuts out there? Well now we can appease our photography and documentary nerd cravings at the same time with a bio piece about iconic architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

The film is Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman. First-time director Eric Bricker follows Shulman's work documenting mod...