I'm Rebecca Lando.
I'm an award-winning writer, producer, and editor and upcoming cookbook author based in New York City.
In 2009 I launched Working Class Foodies, a cooking show that creates affordable meals from local, seasonal, and/or sustainable ingredients. Working Class Foodies is a part of YouTube Next Chef and airs on NBC New York's Nonstop Foodies.
I wrote, produced, and edited FilmFan, an award-winning weekly movie review show, for MSN from 2010-2011.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I can’t tell if NYU is ahead of the curve on this or not, but I am guessing ‘not’ by their 1998-era ‘OMG TEH GOOGLE!!!1’ excitement.
Here comes YouTube Next.
Today, we’re very excited to share the news that Next New Networks is now part of YouTube. Our company will become a core component of YouTube Next, a new team that will focus on supercharging content creator development on YouTube, driving deeper expertise in partner audience development, and incubating new ideas that can be shared with the broader community.
Since we launched in March 2007, we’ve had the goal of building an effective platform for developing, packaging and building audiences for original web video programming. To date, that programming has been viewed over 2 billion times and built a following of more than 6 million subscribers. A big part of that growth has been the more than 60 independent producers who have partnered with us as part of the Next New Creators program, including popular YouTube partners such as The Gregory Brothers, Hot for Words, and Nalts, in addition to the ongoing growth of networks like Barely Political (home of Obama Girl and “The Key of Awesome”), Indy Mogul, ThreadBanger, and Fast Lane Daily.
While our team will continue to work out of our offices here in New York as the YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group, I’ll be stepping down from a rewarding stint as the company’s CEO and continue producing cartoons from my company, Frederator Studios. Our popular cartoon network, Channel Frederator, will continue its partnership with YouTube, and I’m looking forward to a close and fruitful relationship with the company personally and professionally. Our current chairman, Lance Podell, will also be joining the YouTube Next team as global head for the group.
Everyone here is very excited to work even more closely with the YouTube team, and looking forward to expanding our mission to provide guidance and support in creative, production, and audience development to all aspiring and current YouTube partners.
Thank you, everyone. It’s been a great beginning.
– Fred Seibert, CEO and Co-Founder, recently watched “Moustaches,” by mrweebl.
Congrats to all my friends/partners in crime/executive producers at YouTube Next!
(Source: nextnewnetworks.com)
The office fills the penthouse of a 100-year-old Nabisco factory, the history of which the architects took pains to spotlight. They left its guts raw, so you’ve got exposed pipes and peeled paint and gashes in the walls (from the gritty, rough-and-tumble Rust Belt work of making cookies). —Google Unveils Not-Evil Office in Pittsburgh | Co.Design
I walked by that Nabisco’s twice a day on my way to and from prep school in kindergarden and 1st grade. They baked chocolate chip cookies in the morning and you could smell the butter and sugar melting together blocks away, even before you caught sight of the factory. That red and white building peeking through the trees was my school, Ellis Academy for Girls.
Here’s a closeup of Vincent van Gough’s “Starry Night” using Google’s new Art Project website. Check out the site, it’s like google maps for some of the world’s best museums. (Link)
This is so fucking beautiful.
“We want to make Google the third half of your brain” - Sergey Brin.
Lose the third wheel.
Come to Yom Kippur tomorrow night at 92YTribeca.
Unrelated, it’s kind of cool that Google’s using my boyfriend’s dad’s Subterranean Homesick Blues music video in their ad. Wut wut.
“Google-funded startup Makani has already proven that kites have value as an energy source. Now the GE-chartered Beluga SkySails cargo vessel has shown that kites—yes, those lightweight things you fly from strings—can act as propulsion systems on ships.
The vessel, chartered by GE’s Project Logistics team to carry power-generating equipment, boasts the first towing kite propulsion system for a commercial shipping vessel. The parasail-like kite attaches to the ship’s bow and pulls it through the water. The SkySails system can carry a load of eight to 16 tons—a number that is expected to increase to 32 tons by 2012 as the technology matures.”
via mikehudack:hilker:hippieflavor:Fast Company
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Is the kite pulling the ship or is the ship flying the kite?
Syriana II: Go Fly a Kite
In my head, the crew of the ship spends all day singing and dancing to this.
LIFEOFBK: Not Sure When This Happened
Sometime in the last few months, google enabled voicemail forwarding from your regular phone number to your (incredible) Google Voice voicemail box.
Inside Google Voice, go to “settings” > and click “activate Google voicemail on this phone” next to the number that you want awesome voicemail on….
Giddy at the thought of never having to listen to another voicemail.
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Wired
Google’s synonym system understood that a dog was similar to a puppy and that boiling water was hot. But it also concluded that a hot dog was the same as a boiling puppy. The problem was fixed in late 2002 by a breakthrough based on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s theories about how words are defined by context. As Google crawled and archived billions of documents and Web pages, it analyzed what words were close to each other. “Hot dog” would be found in searches that also contained “bread” and “mustard” and “baseball games” — not poached pooches. That helped the algorithm understand what “hot dog” — and millions of other terms — meant. “Today, if you type ‘Gandhi bio,’ we know that bio means biography,” Singhal says. “And if you type ‘bio warfare,’ it means biological.”
Shit, you guys. I had literally just decided to get an HTC Droid Eris in February when my Verizon contract rolls over, and now this? WHAT TO DO?
the king is dead, long live the king
