Two recent sites are taking online dating to the next level. CrazyBlindDate.com allows users to set up a date with a total stranger on short notice. UK-based IceBrkr.com allows a user to text message an attractive stranger in a public place (as long as they are a user) before they make face to face contact.  Lux Nightmare, editor of sexuality, dating, and culture blog Boinkology.com offers her insight and gives some online dating tips.

Pound of Cure-MD provides mobile clinical diagnostics, health risk assessments, and chronic disease prevention screenings to individuals, communities, employers, and organizations. How is this different from getting a preventative screening at a physician’s office? Mario speaks to Audrey Whetsell, co-founder of Resource Partners Healthcare, Inc., the parent company of several companies that provide health care technology solutions.

A sampling from Mario’s holiday wishlist.

Donald A. Norman, Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, partner in the Nielsen Norman Group Consulting Firm, and former VP of Apple’s Advanced Technology Group speaks about the problems facing us as we move towards an increasingly automated future.

Generation Y, the Internet Generation, the Nintendo Generation, and the New Millennials are some of the various names for those born between 1980 and 2000. They are literally the future, and as many of them have recently begun entering the workplace it’s evident that they have very different expectations of work culture and on a generational level, communicate very differently. Mario speaks with Baltimore native Jakob Lodwick, inventor of the "lip dub", and partner in Connected Ventures, a New York based firm that runs CollegeHumor.com, BustedTees.com, and Vimeo.com, a video sharing service that preceded YouTube and is the first to offer streaming HD-quality video.

Here’s the lip dub video that acted as an indirect commercial for the company and resulted in hundreds of unsolicited resumes. 

Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

An exclusive behind the scenes tour of Connected Ventures.
Connected Ventures Tour courtesy of Jakob Lodwick from ProducerSong on Vimeo.

How have the music industry, musicians, and tech startups reacted to the rising popularity of the MP3? The answers were found at this year’s College Music Journal Music Marathon in NYC.

Have a cellphone? Ever need to give yourself or someone else a reminder? You might be interested in Jott, which transcribes voicemails into e-mails.

Joshua Davis, aka Bit Shifter, composes and performs music with a Nintendo Game Boy.

In an increasingly digital world, have paper comics become obsolete?  The answer was found at the Baltimore Comic Convention.

The iPod Touch doesn’t support Flash, what is Apple up to? Mario speculates on what the future holds with Don Willett, principal of Willett & Associates.