KTLA Interview On “The Social Network”

Sep 30 2010

I’ll be honest, a big reason I wanted to be involved with “The Tastemaker” is that I was really drawn to the 2nd challenge, which contestants are taking on right now. Education is very important to me. My mom is a coordinator for children with special needs so I was lucky enough to grow up [...]

Tags: bill gates, fantasia, get schooled, ijustine, ludacris, melinda gates, shak, shira lazar, tastemaker

Sep 26 2010

I couldn’t be more honored and excited to be hosting a live-stream at the White House this coming Friday with Arne Duncan, The Secretary of Education. The chat will be hosted live on MSN.com and WhiteHouse.Gov- submit your questions now RIGHT HERE.

Tags: arne duncan, msn, white house

Sep 20 2010

I’ve always wanted to host a reality competition and now I’ve been given the opportunity to blend all my passions–hosting, tech and social media into one fun show. The Tastemaker launched last week (here’s the Tubefilter article about it), with 12 episodes running through October 21st and new one’s airing every Monday and Thursday. I [...]

Sep 19 2010

If you’ve seen my blog on CBSNews.com, I’ve been pretty addicted to getting exclusives with people who go viral online, whose videos or stories seem to strike a cultural chord and spread like wildfire. It’s something that has become fascinating to me–tracking down these unknowns and sometimes building some sort of virtual connection to them. [...]

Tags: antoine dodson, double rainbow, elyse porterfield, hungrybear9562, jacob isom, quran

Aug 26 2010

This past week, a Japanese newspaper announced that Toshiba is planning to release a new 3D TV by the end of the year that doesn’t require you to wear those wacky 3D glasses. It’s definitely a game changer. I went on Fox Business Network’s Cavuto Show to chat with him about the impact it might [...]

Tags: 3d tv, cavuto, fox, toshiba

Aug 16 2010

I’ve always been a big fan of Charity:Water and founder Scott Harrison. Today, they launch their September campaign.
Read my post about the campaign and and watch my interview with Scott on Huffington Post Impact today!

Aug 12 2010

Thanks so much to all my friends at Next New Networks and The Key of Awesome for my mini cameo in this parody of The Social Network trailer aptly called The Twit Network:

Tags: key of awesome, parody, social network, trailer, twitter

Aug 05 2010

I had the opportunity to be part of a really fun video with Sly for his latest film, The Expendables. I can’t embed it- so just go to HTTP://YOUTUBE.COM/EXPENDABLES to watch and be blown away!

Tags: expendables, sylvester stallone, youtube

Aug 04 2010

Check out this interview I did with Hunter Walk, Director of Product Development at Google/YouTube,  at Vidcon. He talks about how he sees people quitting their jobs to be full-time YouTubers.

Tags: google, hunter walk, vidcon, youtube