Sarah Austin sits down with author Christine Arylo. Her book “Choosing Me Before We” is an inspirational guide for all women on how to love themselves. Her website www.madlyinlovewithme.com is also a platform for women to share and experience self-love. Sarah asks Christine about the book, the website, and her role as an inspirational woman in culture.

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Have you ever noticed how bargain shoppers always like to comment on their deals? Well, we are the epitome of this type of shopper. I always tell Anna first about my fantastic deals. She’s got such a great mind for finance I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s a CFO of a major tech company someday soon.

So many deals, so little time! When Anna and I find ourselves out and about and in need of a good deal, we’re mostly just out of luck. Imagine how cool it would be if you could search only deals near your exact location from your mobile phone. Anna and I just discovered we can do just that because Bing mobile deals – available at m.bing.com on iPhones and Androids – combines location-based services with search. It pinpoints your exact location to serve you up deals from Groupon, LivingSocial, Tippr and more near where you live, work, where you attend conferences, lunches and dinner spots with your friends. Search Deals! And you can team up with your friends to buy dinners, day spa deals, mani pedi deals, etc… by searching first for deals on m.bing.com on the go! I got to make this fun little video where I’m looking for an ice cream deal and am able to get it! Yum yum goodies!

I’m more likely to purchase items when I’m out with my friends like Anna. Anna’s got a great eye for deals online and offline, and not to mention fabulous style! She’s always telling me about the best buys and how to manage my budget. What’s best is we can shop together on the go! We’ve noticed that we seem to be making WAY more purchases when we’re buying on the go! LOL!

When Anna’s not with me, I like to get a second opinion from my other friends. Every once in a while I’ll lifecast from the store where I am shopping and ask my friends to tell me what they like best. Generally, I like to shop with friends, but often times I end up alone because I’m on the go. Thank goodness I always have Bing mobile deals to turn to!

This video is made possible by Bing mobile deals. In accordance to the FTC Guidelines, I am disclosing that I am sponsored by Bing, the decision engine from Microsoft. All editorial content has been created by me and reflects my personal opinions.

What a better time to start a new Pop17 show than for the YouTube NextUp program? At midnight last night, YouTube creator’s channel closed it’s application process after being extended a few days. The contest is for an initial seed funding from Google toward any content creator’s channel. Hermione Way and I decided to collaborate on this unique opportunity for the possibility of funding, but more importantly the promotion and support from YouTube. What’s the future of TV? Possibly the YouTube NextUp’s 25 shows. Their unique development program is taking YouTube from viral videos to being about episodic content similar to Blip.TV’s business model.

Little Bay Book is your city guide presented by the tastemakers of Silicon Valley. We will take you to the hot places frequently visited by the Silicon Valley elite. This is our way of showing you the little hidden gems that will further inspire one’s professional work. In this episode, we show you Samovar at Yerba Buena Gardens. It’s the place all the entrepreneurs are hanging out at this week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. You can tweet us or send a message on Facebook to let us know where you want us to go next.

Right now when you visit any Samovar tea lounge and order any green tea 10% if the profits will go toward aiding Japan and the Red Cross in their tsunami relief.

Sarah and Brandon (host of Web Trends) spoke about females in technology, SXSW and the future direction of Pop17.

Here’s a link to the full interview for those who weren’t able to join the live video stream.

The conversation lasts for 30 minutes.

Thanks to Brandon Prebynski for having Sarah on the show.

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She owns a company in London, UK called Newspepper, runs a technology video blog called Techfluff and now works as the Silicon Valley Director for The Next Web.

I caught up with Hermione today in San Francisco after she had concluded a panel for The Next Web about crowdfunding. This panel was held as part of Social Media Week.

The video interview with Hermione is embedded below:

Be sure to follow Hermione on Twitter, check out her company Newspepper and read her articles on The Next Web.

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If you haven’t yet, be sure to RSVP to attend Pop17′s party which is happening tomorrow evening in San Francisco.

For those who aren’t aware of Imagine1Day, they are a Vancouver based non profit who have set a goal to provide quality primary education to children in Ethiopia by 2020.

Shortly after featuring Imagine1Day last month, I decided to get in contact with Adam Millard, developmental director at Imagine1Day.

The following is a 30 minute conversation between myself and Adam.

Adam was a very interesting guest, who had plenty of key insight into the work Imagine1Day was doing.

The problem with a child receiving a poor education is that they miss out on future economic prosperity and developing important life skills.

That is why it is so important we support the work of Imagine1Day and similar non profits.

In the interview Adam mentions about another non profit called Pencils Of Promise.

After learning more about this initiative, I plan to feature Pencils Of Promise in an upcoming feature for Pop17.

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Sarah Austin sits down with technology journalist, Jolie O’Dell of Mashable, to discuss writing for developers, school and how she came up with her classy personal style.

Last Sunday I traveled to London to meet Rana Sobhany who has risen to fame recently for being the “iPad DJ”.

This is the second part of my interview with her.

In this section of the interview we discussed:

• “Mobilize”, a book written by Rana due for release in January.
• Where her musical influences came from
• Her short lived tennis career
• Her introduction to playing the guitar

Rana: What’s interesting is my background has been in technology for coming on ten years now.

I have written a book called Mobilize about the history of the app store and why Apple’s disintermediation of the carriers has been so significant to the adoption of mobile platforms and specifically iPhone app downloads.

It’s something people just have no idea that I have that background.

Josh: So give us a little background to what you have done in the past

Rana: Sure, well I worked at a venture capital fund and in 2007 I got an iPhone.

I loved it. The secret is I jailbroke it right away and I started downloading all these apps and I realised this was a huge opportunity.

A partner and I actually quit the fund we worked at in DC and moved to New York and started this company. It grew very quickly.

In the beginning no-one knew what the iPhone SDK was going to be like, they didn’t know if the applications were going to be downloaded.

Very quickly they were like “We need data”, so I started getting lots of calls.

We had an advertising product too and fundamentally 500 days later, the thing about me and I am sure you can see by the fervor I approach iPad DJ’ing.

I really like startups.

I liked working at an early stage venture fund, I liked working at an early stage startup.

I have always been the person who likes the long chain ideas. Once the product gets to the point where it’s sustainable, I get very bored and I have to leave.

It’s just not fulfilling anymore.

I got to the point with my company Medialets where it just wasn’t fulfilling.

It was big you know and that’s great. I am so proud of what we did there.

But for me personally it wasn’t working and what I wanted to do was take all that breadth of knowledge I had accumulated over 500 days and create a resource for the developers.

I became very very friendly with the iPhone developers, they would call me and say “How do we market apps?”

I noticed things happening in the app store like people started lowering the prices to $0.99 because they simply didn’t know how to sell.

I thought, if there was a book that people could just read and just get it. I am not saying it will cause people to make millions of dollars in the App Store, that’s not my intention at all.

But more of just an understanding of what to you need to do and what to think about. So this time last year I was cooped up in my house writing the book and it  comes out in January, so its very exciting.

Josh: So that gives everyone a background of where you have come from and what you are doing now.

I thought what would be really  important for this interview is to talk about who you are. No-one has really done that, it’s all been about the iPad.

I want to look at the person behind it, where the influences have come from and what has made you who you are today.

R: The little known fact is that I started playing music when I was very young.  I had a traditional music upbringing, I started with piano.

I didn’t really like practising piano. I liked the theory behind piano, but piano wasn’t really my instrument.

Then I get into stringed instruments. I started playing the violin and viola, I really quickly liked the viola. It had a lot more richer tone and it was a more soulful instrument.

Another aspect of it is that there weren’t that many people playing it, so I felt I could get more attention from my conductor. I was very inquisitive about the instrument.

I really liked it, I was first chair in the orchestra.

Where that stopped for me though is that when I was 12 or 13, I was equally good at viola and tennis.

I had to choose. So I chose tennis.

What happened was I got really into tennis. I played eight hours a day. I was really pushing myself and playing very competitively.

A few years later around 15 or 16, I had a severe injury and I had to have surgery. I was really depressed because what happened was that then and there was I realised I could never become a professional tennis player.

So my friend had a guitar and gave it to me. You’ve got six strings on a guitar, it’s kind of like a viola. You have this rich tone, you don’t have a bow but you can manually impact the way it sounds.

So I started really getting into it.

This concludes part two of my interview with Rana Sobhany.

Click Here To Listen To Part Three Of The Interview

I was determined to make this interview more about Rana and the musical influences that have shaped her life so far.

In this first part we spoke about:

• How Rana got started as the iPad DJ
• What Rana thinks about the development of tablet devices

Here’s a transcript of the interview:

JOSH: OK this is Josh Chandler here with Pop17. I am here with Rana Sobhany, famously known as the iPad DJ.

So everyone has been asking me questions about what you do and what being an iPad DJ is about.

So do you just want to give a basic overview about what you do now.

RANA: Sure, actually it’s really interesting Gizmodo named me the iPad DJ.

That was not necessarily what I would have gone with because really what I am doing is live music production using tablet computers.

My interest is more in the organic quality of human interfaces with computers. DJ’ing to me is an amazing artform and there are people who are just really great at that.

But really what I am doing is live production and live remixing and fundamentally what I have done with the iPad is hacked together a version of Abelton live which doesn’t exist as a native app on the iPad yet.

So I figured out another way to do it by manually cutting up loops and making my own sounds and taking samples and trying to just string together something which is a holistic experience musically which is one of the things I have an issue with being called the iPad DJ.

Josh: I was going to ask you to bring the iPad, but I thought there was no point because Robert Scoble did an amazing video with you.

RANA: Actually, I was going to say. I don’t if this has ever been revealed. Robert came over to my house about three days after I even had the idea.

I didn’t know what I was doing, I can’t even watch that video now. It’s so terrible compared to how far the technology has gone.

And when you consider six months ago, the developers who wrote the apps I was using during that video they had never seen an iPad yet because all those apps were built before the iPad was released.

So all those apps have got a lot more sophisticated, there is a lot more different types of applications out there. So maybe I feel like I am overdue for a new demo video with all the new technology.

JOSH: I have seen a lot of people on the web that there is “this and that” is quite similar about the software, especially on the demo you were using the notebook. It’s amazing what the iPad app has enabled you to do that you can already do on the notebook.

RANA: I’ve got to say, I am not advocating people stop using laptops and computers. It’s not that.

There is nothing like being on an airplane and you’ve got this little tablet and you can sit and you have this complete scratchpad and all you need is a pair of headphones.

When I sit on a six hour plane ride from New York to London having a laptop is still rather large, you have your neighbor next to you and you don’t want to elbow them.

It’s actually a little tough and you are sitting there kind of cramped, it’s not like a real instrument. Whereas I feel my iPad is more like a traditional musical instrument.

JOSH: Yeah, that’s true because it’s the touch interface of the tablet is really native to how you use an instrument.

RANA: I always call it the hybrid of the two. For instance when I bring in a new loop or a new sound, it’s the same way you see a guitarist move their hand down the fretboard you know there is a solo about to happen.

And I lovingly say when I am watching my favorite DJ’s using Sorato “Are you checking your email or are you DJ’ing?”

You lose some of that audio and visual component. That’s what I am really interested in is trying to push that and try bring back that idea of a performance.

It’s something that I just feel needs to be said, because we get really tied to the technology. You’re still giving a show right?

JOSH: When you do your live sets, what’s the experience like for you at the moment?

RANA: Well, it’s very funny. Most of the videos have been taken at a conference, that is so not a live show experience.

I did a show at the House of Blues in LA and I jumped into the audience. That’s totally different. That’s another thing that it rather interesting about it, I am part evangelist and part performer.

So that’s a little challenging, because I have to put my analytics hat on when I do these conferences and speak from a more data driven perspective.

But when I do the performances I get to be crazy and loose myself in the performance and that’s something I really like.

That’s another thing when people come and they’ve seen the video with me explaining it and then they come to a performance and they are like “This is so different” and that’s good I like that.

JOSH: That’s interesting you mention about analytics, there is a different background to what you have done in the past with many different companies. It didn’t even occur to me that you have done something different in the past

RANA: Yeah I definitely jumped in. I realised the moment I figured out what was possible here, the thing that I had in my mind could be replicated with the iPad.

I just realized I had to keep going because it’s too important, I think this is something that is going to shape the way that future technology is used for music, so if I have the platform and the technology to push the envelope then I am going to do it.

That concludes the first part of my interview with Rana Sobhany.

Click Here To Listen To Part Two Of The Interview

When he isn’t working on his HBO American comedy-drama television series, Entourage, he spends his time as a filmmaker. Currently, Adrian Grenier and film producer, Peter Glatzer, first started collaborating on environmental issues in 2008 when they created the show Alter Eco for Discovery’s Planet Green channel. In addition to speaking out against Prop 23, read article he’s working on developing an iPhone app for the environmentally aware tech geeks of the world.

Stanley Kirk Burrell, best known by his stage names MC Hammer, Hammer and Hammertime, is a rapper, entertainer and dancer most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Remembered for a rapid rise to fame before losing the majority of his fortune, he is also known for his hit records, including “U Can’t Touch This”, flamboyant dance techniques and trademark Hammer pants.

The Valley Girl Show is a talk show featuring some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, Business and the WORLD including Ted Turner, MC Hammer, Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt. To see full episodes visit me, the ValleyGirl!

What do you plan to talk about on Pop17?

As the Valley Girl, I plan to bring business talk to the table in a fun and approachable way. I will be covering events in the business and technology sectors.

Short Bio:

Valley Girl, Jesse Draper is a professional American actress, entertainment entrepreneur, producer, writer and Twitterer: @valleygirlshow. Hoping to inspire and educate those who live a life at the office, along with those who are intimidated by “business talk”, she created “The Valley Girl Show” to spark the entrepreneur inside of everyone. She is the answer to all of your business related inquiries and interests! A graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, she is most well known for her supporting role as Jesse, the nanny, from Nickelodeon’s hit show “The Naked Brother’s Band”.

What was your first concert experience?

The very first concert I went to was the WARP tour which introduced me to the more alternative concertgoers. There was moshing and craziness! I was in high school and Blink 182 was the most memorable band there and the reason we went. I was there with a bunch of my friends. We were at Shoreline Amphitheatre on the grass right on the incline, which was a blast! If you haven’t seen a concert at Shoreline, you are seriously missing out. Shoreline is still my favorite place to see concerts. Nothing competes!

What are you working on right now?

Right now, we are about to release the new season of “The Valley Girl Show”. We have a lot of exciting things happening this season. We have MC Hammer and Le Var Burton, we have Kai Huang of Guitar Hero and more! We are also working with KRON4 and every Thursday during the evening news there will be a Valley Girl Show segment on television, so look out for it!

If you could be a piece of technology, what would you be?

This is a really fun question. If I could be a piece of technology that actually exists it would definitely be a a MacBook Pro or some sort of computer, because the way I see it, if you are a computer, then the internet is essentially…your brain, so you would be brilliant! Can you imagine???

Media Summit 2008 held the Digital Hollywood conference in New York City from the 12th-13th of March, 2008. The conversations revolved around advertising and marketing on the Internet and mobile devices. Patrick Crane from LinkedIn, Matt Bostwick from MTV and Andy Plesser from Beet.tv were present and nice enough to allow interviews.