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frog is hosting Churchill Club for an evening with award-winning journalist Sarah Lacy and Max Levchin, CEO of Slide and co-founder of PayPal. Lacy released her book Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and Rise of Web 2.0 last May, after 10 years of reporting on startup business and culture in the Valley. On Monday, August 25, she’ll interview one of the book's biggest stars: Max Levchin, founder of PayPal and Slide, and investor in a host of other Web 2.0 names. Then Max turns the tables and interviews Sarah.

Passion is the genesis of genius. So says FlashForward in the mission statement of this year’s conference, connecting Flash fanatics the world over. This year, frog Jared Ficklin explores the potential of Flash as a means of sound visualization. His session, “See Sound, Sound Visualization in Nature and in Code” draws the line between digital and analog audio waves.

The hardware and software design of mobile devices is inextricably linked, the outer casing governing our access to the data within. On August 20, at the Intel Developer Forum, frogs Paul Bradley and Knut Graf will lead a workshop on the integration of the two: “Designing Mobile Interface Devices from the Outside-In.”

There is no question that companies must conquer the new media landscape in order to flourish, encouraging two-way conversations with their customers and exploiting the social dimension of technology today. But Web 2.0 is about business, as well as buzz. On August 4-5, frog General Manager Carsten Wierwille will leverage frog’s expertise to help lead a two-day workshop at Stanford’s Wallenberg Summer Institute on monetizing new media engagement.

On July 16th, 2008, frog design, Fast Company, and ITP hosted a design mind speaker series event in New York with Arun Chaudhary, director of field production for Barack Obama. Arun shared his thoughts on the new world of Politics 2.0, and his discovery that viewers – and voters – have longer attention spans than the media gives them credit for. Watch a video of the event at our new design mind website.

On Wednesday, July 23, 2008, frog Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston will help lead a discussion at FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH on designing the mobile Internet, exploring the intersections of information, technology, and communication. Other panelists will speak on behalf of Intel, Nokia, and Yahoo!