A great project by our friend and music industry veteran, Paul Stewart, at his new venture, Over The Edge Books. Paul has a campaign running on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter to put out Mike Miller’s photography in West Coast Hip Hop: A History In Pictures. Mike was the quintessential photographer through the early West Coast hip hop scene and scanned over 3000 original, never before seen images of some of our favorites.

The project is already fully funded, but you can still grab a book and print at the page.

Visit the project on Kickstarter

Great hack by Adam Lindsey from Music Hack Day Barcelona 2011 ranking popular music through a smart little algorithm. 

See it live at twittermusictrends.com/

Excellent infographic on social web sharing via. @Mashable

HT @keyinfluencer

The inaugural #shift event was phenomenal!

We just wrapped a full week of some of the most inspiring conversation with some of our best friends in NYC. The full story, photos, videos and such will be shared here and shift.pgi.com as they become available, but in the meantime… THANK YOU NEW YORK CITY!

Also, a huge thanks to iMeet for being such an incredible partner in building #shift. We’ll touch base shortly.

- @socialpeopletv

I do enjoy a cup of Percolate daily brew.

^Joey

Pleased to have our new identity system created in N.Y.C. by designer,  calligrapher and creative director, Aerosyn Lex Mestrovich. Lots more soon.

HT @a_buchanan

Incredibly inspiring video sent over from our friends at Summit Series. Ira Glass speaks on the creative process. “Do a lot of work.”

Jazzy Jeff Live @ The Do-Over June 12 2011 by The Do-Over

Looks like Facebook just ramped up “Likes” to a more dynamic toolset of sharing and engaging. This could really turn what we’ve picked up in the recent past on social media marketing upside down.

Full story on Techcrunch

The cat is out of the bag that Facebook is going to launchsomething big at its developer conference f8 this week. We’ve heard about the social music services that could be debuting in a few days, but as the New York Times conveyed this past weekend, Facebook is planning for ways to surface personal content better. And we’ve heard from a source that Facebook will introduce new buttons on the wall that will begin introducing some granularity to the “Like” concept. We’re told these new buttons are “Read,” “Listened,” “Watched.” The network will also soon launch new social commerce buttons like “Want” following the introductions of the aforementioned buttons.

Some photos from my Saturday out with a new Canon S95.

First, Jon Lombardo at GE tipped me off to some free tickets to Makers Faire, the massive science fair filled with 3D printers and kid inventors. On the way out I stopped at 5Pointz, the famous grafitti hall of fame in Queens off the 7train to test the color.

I headed back to the city after that to check the Anonymous endorsed #occupywallstreet protest and see the outcome. Thousands of people took over the financial district on Saturday and public safety officials closed down the main entries to Wall Street, blocking off the NYSE in the middle of the primetime tourist weekend path.

I then went to Le Grand Fooding where Dante Fried Chicken was cooking with world famous chefs and music stars in a beautiful outdoor sculpture garden in Soho for the annual event.

What a day, only in #nyc.

^Joey 

posted on shift.pgi.com

Lane Wood speaks on Warby Parker, the one for one eyewear brand disrupting a $16B industry by creating an affordable option for high design eyewear that gives back.

Lane is a featured participant at #shift: social enterprise.