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Buddy Media was acquired by SalesForce last week for $689 million. Amazing journey and accomplishment for a small start up, now part of one of the best companies in the world. But for Michael Lazerow the journey started much earlier. Michael has a heart condition and cheated death a few times he opens up and share his story with the world. He made a video with a bit of his story, and bit around the acquisition, but sharing with the world the secret to life: conquer fear, and you'll conquer the world.

Awesome ad featuring wwo of the world's biggest athletes go head to head in a battle of explosive speed. On court, Rafael Nadal's supremacy is almost unrivaled, but against Cristiano Ronaldo and the new Mercurial Vapor VIII, things get interesting. Start serving soft balls, and slowly picking up... I want to see Ronaldo stop a 160mph serve with his chest in real life that should hurt! :)

Samsung's Olympic Games Ambassador David Beckham displays precise footwork with a 15 foot wall of drums, the GALAXY Note and the illustrative capabilities enabled by the S Pen. Not sure what does it have to do with Samsung or the Galaxy Note, and I say it has nothing on the Soccer Angry Birds video.

University of North Carolina goalies Lassi Hurskainen and Dan Jackson use their feet to play a real life version of the absurdly addictive video game, ‘Angry Birds.’ This one is not new, but I actually just discovered it. Check out their creative trick shot video below.

Like many interesting scientific discoveries, this one was an accident. Sean Murphy, an undergraduate student, was working alone in the lab on a set of faces for one of his experiments. He aligned a set of faces at the eyes and started to skim through them. After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the faces began to appear highly deformed and grotesque. He called it the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect”. This is amazingly funny and entertaining ... check it out.

Great collection of illustrations comparing Copywriters and Art Directors.

Google co founder Sergey Brin recently sat down with the Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom for an hour long interview. Brin, as he has done in the past, wore the company’s Project Glass prototype, and even allowed Newsom to test them out. During the interview it is revealed that the device features a touch sensitive trackpad that allows users to scroll through content. When asked about a potential release, Brin states that he has “some hopes to maybe get it out sometime next year,” although he did caution “that’s still a little bit of a hope.”

<div class="post body" The History Of course, while Wallet is Google's first big push into mobile payments, it is far from the first . Mobile payments have been "the future" of payments for decades now, long before the days of smartphones equipped with NFC (or Near Field Communication). Early attempts in the 1990s from companies like DigiCash focused not on phones, but on standalone "smart cards," which promised better security, no transaction fees and more convenience than traditional credit cards one day we would use them not to just pay for items at a store, but from our home computers as well. E cash for an e economy. With the rapid rise of cellphones, though, came a push for mobile commerce, or "m commerce," an effort that really began to pick up steam in the early 2000s when mobile payments were not just the realm of upstarts, but big players like Nokia (which would continue to push its own efforts throughout the decade). Our phones would be the one device we used for everything: they'd open doors, get us on a bus or subway, and let us pay for anything, anywhere. In many ways, that's still the goal we're working towards, and one that's slowly starting to become a reality.

Very interesting SalesForce, who's doing all the right moves will acquire Facebook CMS company Buddy Media for $800 Million. Well, BuddyMedia has built more than that over the years the 5 years old company started as a s

Interesting infographic on future cars . The car of the future will be connected, cloud enabled, and will be part of the greater trend of Internet of Things. The Infograph talks about V2V communications [Vehicle to Vehicle], just like any other M2M [Machine to Machine]. More and more we're seeing self aware devices and interconnectivity, that are capable of sending core signals / data elements for a better and smarter environment. V2V communication is not sufficient, we need better communication with highways, hazards, traffic, cameras, natural disasters, parking, and more. Asides from that, foreseeable aspects such as better infotainment systems, music and video streaming, smart sensors for better security and safety, Interesting that for future cars there is no mention to self driving cars, fuel efficiency, external sensors for better automation such as real time video analytics ... It's a pretty infographic, but very limited from a thinking perspective.

Awesome infographic on the world of tech IP. Lawsuits, patents, and tons of activity. Note that Apple doesn't sell patents to anyone, and no one is allows to touch Apple's IP. Apple is the most active player in the court room as well. Google very quiet, but plays well in the patent marketplace. Motorola Mobility remarkably told a monstrous number of patents to Google, which might have been cheaper to just buy them than keep paying it. And Nortel apparently has it made, where every large player pays them a nice recurring revenue.

W+K does it again same makes of Nike Write The Future FIFA 2010 ad, now released another football masterpiece. While the film opens on a soccer match between France and Holland, the action is suddenly taken over by wave upon wave of soccer mad young players who are eager to make their mark on the soccer world. The young players are the folks from "The Chance," Nike's scouting mission to find 100 potential soccer champions from 50 countries. This video is again amazing, featuring Van der Wiel, Sneijder, Lloris, Guardiola, Kevin Strootman, Van Der Vaart, Mamadou, M'vila, Ribery, C.Ronaldo, Gotze e Ozil, Hernandez (Chicharito), LeBron James, Iniesta e Pique, Neymar, Pato, Jack Wilshere, Mark van Bommel, Pastore, and Laurent Blanc.