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Steven Rosenbaum is an Author, Entrepreneur, and CEO.

He is the first-ever "Entrepreneur At Large" for New York City's Economic Development Corporation.

His book, Curation Nation, gives consumers and brand managers struggling with information overflow a set of examples and tools that can turn the data deluge into a useful new solution set.

And his digital video startup, Magnify.net, is rapidly becoming the largest video content curation platform on the web - powering more than 90,000 sites today.

These initiatives, along with his ten years of work with the National September 11th Memorial project, have made him one of the most sought after speakers in the new digital content arena.

Rosenbaum has been working with Curated Content since he created the groundbreaking hit MTV UNfiltered in the pre-web days. Since then, he's been a storyteller, filmmaker, and executive at media and web properties. He's produced films for HBO, A&E, National Geographic, CNN, MSNBC, and Discovery.

You can follow him on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/magnify

Blog Entries by Steve Rosenbaum

Samsung Takes on iPhone for Photo Superiority

(1) Comments | Posted May 12, 2013 | 12:13 PM

Let's face it, the iPhone turned the digital photography world upside down. For a while, it looked the the entire digital photo business was going to just vanish away into the fog. Canon, Nikon, Kodak all saw the consumer photo business on the edge of a cliff. Then, the DSLR...

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Ny Tech Rising: NewFronts, Startups, & Virtual Office Hours

(0) Comments | Posted May 5, 2013 | 8:51 PM

Last week New York emerged as the clear leader in the emerging world of web-based television. With back to back events from all of the major web properties, and lots of new and emerging companies, the Digital NewFronts have clearly taken the web video world's leadership position.

The NewFronts are...

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NY Tech Scene Rising:

(0) Comments | Posted April 29, 2013 | 8:18 AM

There's lots of evidence that New York is moving fast to become the center of the content / software universe. Just last week I hosted the New York Video Meetup and was able to present 5 extraordinary stories that support my sense of just how fast New York is moving....

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Firearms Freeway - Remembered

(5) Comments | Posted April 22, 2013 | 5:14 PM

It was a cold February afternoon on the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, musician Matt Gross and his band-mate were enjoying one of New York's most popular tourist sites. Shortly before 5pm - a gunman wielding a 380 Beretta handgun began firing into the crowd. The...

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The Secrets of Angel Money - Revealed!

(0) Comments | Posted April 15, 2013 | 1:28 PM

If you're thinking of starting a company, chances are you're going to find yourself pitching angel investors. And while all angels aren't the same, they share some characteristics and motivations that allow you to think of them as a class of investor. Understanding how they think, what gets them excited,...

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Is Apple Leaking Data? Users are Mad As Hell!

(1) Comments | Posted April 12, 2013 | 10:39 AM

Remember all the Apple Fanboys who took to the streets to complain about AT&T in the early days of the iPhone? I was one of them. Apple could do no wrong, but back then AT&T took it on the chin. The network was flawed, the support non-existent, the sales channel...

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Is Information Overload Making Us Sick?

(1) Comments | Posted April 3, 2013 | 1:16 PM

You've got to admit, it was a weird anniversary to celebrate. There was the Mayor of NY at the Old Town Bar in Union Square - happily reminding the bar patrons that ten years ago he had really pissed them off. It was a decade ago that New York enacted...

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NY Tech Scene - Rising: NY Stars Light up NYTM

(0) Comments | Posted March 31, 2013 | 5:19 PM

Sometimes, it's easy to forget just how far New York has come in the past five years. But sitting in the Skirball Center at NYU at the most recent New York Tech Meetup, I had a flashback. I remembered when people would look at you sideways if you said you...

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Video: The Emerging TV 2.0 World

(0) Comments | Posted March 29, 2013 | 2:03 PM

After a few false starts, and some famous melt downs - the shape of web video is now coming into view. One thing is certain, all of the video in the web won't be housed on a single site. Sure there will be big players - but already you can...

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NY: The End of the Digital City?

(5) Comments | Posted March 25, 2013 | 9:36 AM

For the past 10 years -- New York has been on a remarkable journey. Even as the world has become more wired, and the need for physical proximity has been replaced by long-distance video conferencing and off-shore resources, New York has bucked that trend.

Shockingly, New York has grown...

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Now Or Never - The New World Of InfoOverload

(0) Comments | Posted March 20, 2013 | 10:46 AM

I used to be one of those people who categorized things. I had my urgent to do list, my long term projects, my followups. I was... you know... organized. But the firehose of inbound information has flooded all those systems. My Linked-in requests grow daily, my Facebook friends ask me...

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NY Tech Scene - Rising

(1) Comments | Posted March 17, 2013 | 6:14 PM

Sometimes, you need to go far away to get a good look at things. That's what happened last week for me, as I traveled to Texas to get a good look at New York. And what I saw may suprise you. Now, to be fair I didn't go to Dallas...

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Leap Motion tested - by kids -

(0) Comments | Posted March 12, 2013 | 10:38 PM

The highly anticipated gesture control device Leap Motion presented at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. As a steady stream of geeks, game enthusiasts, and developers tested the device for the first time... the real test of usability was in the hands of kids. Check out this young boys first...

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SXSW embraces the complexity of the web

(0) Comments | Posted March 10, 2013 | 8:31 PM

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MakerBot fonder Bre Pettis Kicked off this years SXSW festival in Austin. The thing about Bre is you know he has a real vision of how he can change the world - and he's just getting started. It's easy to...

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Education. Broken or Evolving? TED 2013 explores complexity.

(0) Comments | Posted March 3, 2013 | 4:31 PM

It's easy to jump on the "Education is Broken" bandwagon. After all, our institutions seem to be behind the curve - as the world speeds up and embraces change.

At this year's TED Conference in Long Beach California - the answers to the education question were very much on the...

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TED 2013: What I Saw

(0) Comments | Posted March 3, 2013 | 2:50 PM

This year's TED was a remarkable collection of thinkers and dreamers -- here are some images from the past week's event:

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TED 2013 - Wearable computing out of the lab and into the world

(0) Comments | Posted February 27, 2013 | 2:56 PM

Often at TED, there's bit of innovation that is causing the most conversation, and it is the thing that's just around the corner... not yet public but about to go wide.

This year, the buzz is all about wearable computing. The continued morphing of man and machine. There are a...

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TED 2013 - Reaching out for Talks from Around The World

(0) Comments | Posted February 24, 2013 | 7:11 PM

This year, almost a third of the speakers on the TED stage in Long Beach will be coming from a new process that opened the doors of TED to a global community of potential new speakers.

Called The TED Talent Search, the 14 country excursion taped the resourced of the...

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Apple's iPhone 5 Crisis: A Data Vampire on the Loose

(38) Comments | Posted February 24, 2013 | 5:43 PM

Cupertino remains silent as customer complaints grow

Those of us who've been on Apple devices for a long time know that Apple's history of providing mobile connectivity via the cloud has a murky past. MobileMe was a buggy, unloved sync nightmare that left Apple users with missing data...

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Stanfords VR Lab Offers Wild Glimpse of the Future

(2) Comments | Posted February 16, 2013 | 11:52 AM

The thing about virtual reality is that it's kind of been around a bit too long. Remember when second life was so darn hot? Well, that was a long time ago.

So, when I was invited to explore the Stanford Human/Virtual Reality Lab, I have to say I was ready...

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