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Adventures in Hypergrowth – Jeff Holden, Chief Product Officer UBER

Jeff Holden is Uber’s Chief Product Officer (since early 2014), where he focuses on future disruption threats and relevant paradigm shifts. Jeff founded the Advanced Technology Group that developed Uber’s self-driving technology and is currently building Uber’s AI Lab. Prior to Uber, he was the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Groupon (2011-2014), and before Groupon, Jeff was the co-founder and CEO of Pelago (2006-2011), whose flagship product, Whrrl, was designed to help people escape their social rut and discover new things in their cities.  Previous to this, Jeff was at Amazon.com (1997-2006). For the latter half of his… Read the rest

Author of Stuff White People Like to Give Lecture at CMU

Chritian Lander, author of the widely popular blog and book Stuff White People Like will be giving a free talk at CMU on Tuesday. If you haven’t checked it out before – Stuff White People Like – is a list of things that has been called the preppie handbook for today’s generation.  It is fascinating and often totally hilarious. I think this will be an interesting talk to hear about how a blog became so successful so quickly. Here is a clip of Christian on Lopez Tonight: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19_PSyA3JUM[/youtube] Christian Lander Author of Stuff White People Like will Speak at Carnegie… Read the rest

Get Into the Pittsburgh Gigapanorama

On Thursday, September 23 there will be a photo shoot for the 2nd Pittsburgh Gigapanorama – you are invited to participate.  The details for Thursday are available here.  For the whole story about the project keep reading. Gigapana-What? I promise this is not a scary disease or some fancy name for bed bug infestation – a gigopanorama is a giant panoramic photo.  In most basic terms – lots of digital photos are stitched together to create a large panoramic photo. You can learn more about these photos and the technology behind the giga pan photos at Gigapan.org.  Carnegie Mellon and… Read the rest

Tattoos, Mini Ponies, Devo, Joe Grushecky, Stephen Foster (Radio Round Up – July 9, 2010)

Image via Wikipedia Here is the list of things we talked abbout on WDVE this morning. You can hear our weekend picks most Friday mornings at 6:45 on 102.5FM. Links Whatever It Takes –coming this fall – a gallery show of Pittsburgh sports memorabilia – share your photos of Pittsburgh sports t-shirts, tattoos and more.  Read more about the project on the Post-Gazette blog here. PSAMP – Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies – check out the Great Moments in Unlicensed Pittsburgh Sports Merch posts here When a problem comes along, you must whip it… Devo @ Trib Ampitheater Friday, June… Read the rest

Links Worth a Look – May 19th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: Great Lakes Urban Exchange Conference 2010 – Urban Laboratories – Join other city lovers to share ideas and discuss issues. This years conference is in Cleveland – July 15-17, 2010. We were lucky enough to attend last years conference in Milwaukee and would highly recommend this to anyone interested in urban issues of mid-west cities Coffee, record and comic book shops to open all in one building in Polish Hill – More great reasons to love Polish Hill. 3 story building in Polish Hill will have a coffee shop, record… Read the rest

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