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Wowza is moving to Minneapolis' most creative zip code
Amidst the busyness of designing our new space and packing up our stuff, in preparation for our big move next week, we came across this article from the Southwest Journal. According to the article, Wowza is moving to the most creative zip code, 55408. Cool, huh?
15 Days...
Only 15 days after receiving our first Mashup of the Day Award (for Tweet Volume), we won another Mashup of the Day Award, this time for Site Volume!

Check it out:


Site Volume allows users to enter a few words or phrases and find out how often they appear in sites such as Digg, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.
Tweet Volume...All Mashed Up!
We won a mashup award for Tweet Volume and think it’s pretty cool. Check it out and spread the word about our fun interactive tool!




Wowza was awarded the Mashup of the Day Award on April 17, 2008 for Tweet Volume, a fun, free interactive buzz metrics tool that we unveiled in May 2007.

To our surprise, a Tweet Volume fan nominated the mashup for this distinct honor. Utilizing resources from Google’s search engine and Twitter’s open API to capture and compare data points, Tweet Volume makes it possible to identify popular brands, words and phrases used on Twitter.

MashupAwards is a hand-picked display of the best mashups, or websites with a unified interface and experience created from at least two web data sources, and are awarded on a daily and monthly basis. In order to be considered for and receive a Mashup Award, the mashups much excel in each of the five areas: uniqueness, creativity, utility, content, and user experience.

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Ted. Smart talking heads
I can't believe I hadn't found Ted.com before yesterday when, through word-of-mouth of course, Will told me about a Michael Pollan video. Ted.com is filled with 20 minute videos of really smart people lecturing on a variety of interesting subjects. I was almost late for a meeting because I started watching a lecture about one of my favorite books, The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz. Here is a wonderful talk by Amy Tan on creativity. Enjoy.


-Jeff
We use a lot of stock photography. It comes in handy when there is a tight deadline or when the budget is thin. But given the relative ease and cost of creating your own images these days it's really a good idea to avoid stock when possible. I'm sure that's what Hillary's people are thinking today.

Girl in Clinton ad supports Obama
Posted: 10:30 AM ET
CNN
Watch Casey Knowles on American Morning Monday.

(CNN) — Casey Knowles has graced the airwaves this month as the unwitting star of a headline-grabbing campaign ad for Hillary Clinton. But the 17-year-old is hoping to grace the small screen this campaign year for another presidential hopefully: Clinton’s Democratic rival, Barack Obama.

Stock footage of an 8-year-old Knowles sleeping – shot when she worked as an extra in TV commercials — was used in Clinton’s “red phone” ad, which asked “Who do you want answering the phone at 3 a.m.?” in the case of a foreign policy crisis.

But the high-school senior – who will be eligible to vote in the general election – is actually a passionate supporter of Barack Obama’s, and has been volunteering for the Illinois senator’s campaign.

“I think it would be wonderful if Barack Obama and I could get together and do a counter-ad,” she told CNN Saturday.

Appearing on CNN's American Morning Monday, Knowles said she was shocked to discover she was in the commercial, and said it made her feel disloyal to Obama.

"It makes me feel a little disloyal and kind of," she said. "It hurts that footage of me would contribute to a candidate that I'm not necessarily supporting. Hopefully Mr. Obama would forgive me. "

Knowles, who lives in Washington State, also said she plans on helping Obama in Oregon ahead of that state's primary in May.

"They want to get me down there and hopefully get me to help support and get campaigning going on down there," she said.

In Wyoming on Friday, Obama told voters at a campaign event that people shouldn’t worry about what he’d do if an emergency 3 a.m. call came into the White House when he was president.

“What do people think I’m going to do? I’m going to answer the phone,” he said.