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Stipple is pretty impressive

Article updated with Stipple™ embedded graphic, didn't even occur to me to think about that during initial writing, I was so excited to go back! Short post here as I'm headed right back to Stipple, but wow - they put a lot of thought into this. I LOVE how rolling over a photo can produce so much data, especially liking the Twitter stream with the rollover as shown. I can't really imagine all the creative uses this will have as people start using it en masse. I'm scratching my head about monetization because I read too much Fast Company - but am I that far off? If I was Fab, TheCools, or Pinterest just to name a few I'd be up late tonight. Just how much information can one fit into a photo....hmm? That photo might be worth more than a 1000 words now :-)

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The Color of Success: Blacks in Tech on Twitter

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I've wanted to write this post for a while, but I wanted to come at it the right way. This isn't an article about blacks in technology from an exclusionary standpoint, but from a positive empowerment one. I hope the day comes when it's not a rare thing for non-asian minority males to be found in technology, but we're not there yet. Call it curating a cadre of role-models for my son, that I've admired myself.

1) Paul Judge, PhD @pauljudge If there's any king in the black digerati (with a respectful nod to Omar Wasow) these days it's Paul Quantas Judge, PhD. Just with the name it sounds like this guy makes more than you do. Chances are highly likely. Judge was on the founding team of CipherTrust which got acquired by Secure Computing for $273 million, and now works for Barracuda Networks after they acquired his startup Purewire. On my short list of possibles for first black owner of an NFL franchise.

2) Rey Flemings @reyflemings Rey is a serial entrepreneur, starting with Particle - a "product foundry which makes useful and inventive tools that marry technology and community riding the wave of the new media revolution." He followed this up as founder and CEO of Tenman Digital and Tenman Records, ventures backed by Justin Timberlake's early stage tech investment arm. His newest project, Stipple aims to revolutionize the syndication of data within digital images.

3) Amos Winbush III @techceo Amos Winbush III was someone I came across in Inc. magazine and caught my attention both because of his company Cybersynchs and his sartorial streak. It's nice to see a lot of the NYC startups are flipping the script on the Zuckerberg/West Coast relaxed style. Cybersynchs is a company that was founded when Winbush lost the data on his phone one too many times, and now provides data backup to over half a million consumers.

4) Kingsley Harris @kingsleyharris Kingsley is a partner and creative at NYC based FreshThrills, where he's involved in designing and branding startups. Previously he was a co-founder at Pistash.io the innovative "actionable social bookmarking" service.

5) Sean Gardner @2morrowknight I won't try to say more than this excerpt of the bio from HuffPost: "2morrowknight is a social media adviser and correspondent who blogs for Social Media Week, Smedio, and The Huffington Post, and has appeared on CNN, PBS, and FOX. His work has also appeared in Fast Company, Buzzfeed, The Stimulist, Mission Hot Mama, Womentality Magazine and Essence.com." I heard about Sean from the always connected Terri Nakamura♡, and particularly enjoyed his piece with Paul Steele "Rise of the Female Geek."

6) Kevin McFall @redclaydigital Kevin McFall has been around the technology game for a while, with experience founding Red Clay Digital and co-founding RushmoreDrive.com. Most recently he developed and co-launched Zap2it.com, a top TV, Movie, and Celebrity destination.

7) Ron J Williams @ronjdub Ron currently is working on Knod.es, a new deep data analysis tool for social media. He also still manages his previous startup SnapGoods, a way to connect with locals to rent or borrow the things you need.

8) Jeremy K. Smith @jeremyksmith Jeremy is the holder of my go to Tumblr for all things social media. He currently is the voice of the Common Ground Twitter feed @DiscoverCG, where they're doing great things, like the commercial below.

9) Tristan Walker @tristanwalker Tristan holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Stony Brook University, where he graduated as valedictorian and he also holds a MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Until recently, he was the VP of Business Development at FourSquare, but recently left to become an Entrepreneur in Residence at Andreesen Horowitz.

10) Mark Essien @markessien Last but not least, Mark Essien is a programmer/developer for mobile and web that I've been following for a long time. I really enjoy his most recent launch, linkalert.io - it is crucial for tracking anytime someone links to your website. He also is behind Hotels.com.ng, a highly regarded web provider of hotel booking and amenities information. He is based in Abuja, Nigeria.

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A Story of Success, the Twitter #firstnameclub

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2) Greg Galant @Gregory This article is written with much gratitude owed Greg Galant, the creator of Listorious, the leader in Twitter people search. Listorious is a product of Sawhorse Media, founded by Greg Galant. Listorious curates the list of the 140 (actually 1400) oldest active Twitter accounts, which was instrumental in creating this list. Thanks Greg!

3) Jason Calacanis @Jason Jason Calacanis is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. He is an old timer in the tech media scene, having founded the Silicon Alley Reporter in 1996 to cover the NY Tech Scene, and following up with Weblogs, Inc. which was sold to AOL for $25-$30 million. In 2007, he founded Mahalo, the human powered search engine.

4) Chuck @chuck From his Twitter bio "Christ follower,Gospel Rapper-Poetic Prophet,Internet Marketing-SEO Rapper, Wanna-be Chef, Father, Lyricist,Screwhead,B-Ball Junkie,CEO of Mo Serious Entertainment". I've followed Chuck on Twitter for a long time, I heard about him doing SEO rap, and I was hooked. If you haven't seen the video for "Design Coding", DROP EVERYTHING and watch it here. Nothing better for getting into the work mode for me. You can also find Chuck at theseorapper.com & poeticprophet.com.

5) Dennis Crowley @dens Now this doesn't technically count, but I'm going to give it an inclusion on the old shorter is better web rule of thumb. Dennis is the founder of the now retired Dodgeball (loved Dodgeball!) He is probably one of the foremost experts out there in the mobile/social space, and the founder of Foursquare.

6) John Shahidi @john - Sam Shahidi @sammy The only brother combination I know in the #firstnameclub. John and Sammy are the founders of RockLive, one of the top app development companies out there. Both are great to follow, they're huge LA sports fans, and very well connected. Forging friendships is one of the luxuries of creating hugely popular apps for Chad Ochocinco, Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, and Cristiano Ronaldo. These brothers and their clients are like Jerry Maguire and Rod Tidwell.

7) Rameet Chawla @Rameet Rameet Chawla is another premiere app developer (noticing a trend?) who founded Fueled, with offices in NYC, Chicago and London. Take a look at their reel and website, it's one of the most impressive I've seen. He's also well known in sartorial circles, having been named one of the 50 Most Stylish New Yorkers 2012 by Stylecaster.

8) Kevin Systrom @kevin Most of you on Twitter should have heard of Kevin recently, he just sold his creation Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion. One of my hobbies has always been investigating the connections that help leverage companies in tech towards success, adoption, viral growth and usually acquisition. Kevin is noted on Listorious as being the 71st person to be on Twitter, a huge win for someone who in tech. After graduating from Stanford, Kevin did the usual couple of years at Google before going out on his own. Congratulations on the sale Kevin!

EDIT: THANKS TO THE WONDERS OF THE INTERNET, I ADDED @JEFFREY AFTER THE ORIGINAL POSTING - KEEP CALM, CARRY ON 9) Jeffrey Kalmikoff @jeffrey I started following Jeffrey a while back when he was still with Threadless, from his Twitter bio: Startup advisor. Metalhead. Head of Product & Design at [REDACTED]. Previously: Threadless (CCO), Digg (Director of Design & UX), SimpleGeo (VP Product)

10) Yours Truly - Daman Bahner @daman I'm an early adopter of a lot of things tech, and I ended up being Twitterer number 773. I was a follower of the Odeo podcasting stuff before it took a turn into Twitter, so I consider myself lucky! Hopefully this first name club success rubs off, my garage is short one Bentley Tesla :-)

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