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Pinterest Co-Founder, Paul Sciarra, Leaves for Andreessen Horowitz (Paul Sciarra /Pinterest Blog)
I’ve accepted a role as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz. I hope that eventually leads me back to doing what I’ve done for the past three and a half years — namely, building cool things with awesome people with unexpected results. Startup Grind Paul takes a significant amount of time in his post to clarify his role in building the company, perhaps to make sure it’s clear in the history books what he actually did to make Pinterest the huge success it is today. TechCrunch Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leaders among VCs building out the services that they offer to young companies beyond funding. The EIC role will see Sciarra potentially help Andreessen evaluate future investments, offer advice and assistance to its portfolio companies and perhaps even aid Andreessen Horowitz to be more disruptive in its own ventures. SocialTimes Co-founder Ben Silbermann recently gave an interview for a lengthy feature in Fortune magazine. He also sat down for a Q&A with investor and entrepreneur Chris Dixon at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX. Silbermann has been the sole window to the inner workings of a company that hasn’t done much self-promotion outside the Facebook Timeline. Read more
Social network upstart Google+ has been promoting celebrity activity on its network since it left its private beta testing phase this past summer. While celebrities have been on and using Twitter for a couple of years now, Twitter is not just sitting back passively. They are activity partnering with shows like The X Factor USA and promoting stars who tweet like Hawaii 5-O’s Masi Oka.
Earlier this year Nokia and Microsoft announced a partnership through which Nokia would be develop and sell phones running Windows Phone. The partnership is seen as important to increasing Windows Phone market share as well as Nokia’s smartphone market share. In June we began to see 
A new “fast casual” restaurant
I remember paying $11 for eggs, toast and a small orange juice at an airport years ago. I was as surprised that no meat (bacon or sausage) was included in the package as I was by the price. Well, actually, anyone who has bought food in an airport knows that the prices are high. However, the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) may be able to help out a weary traveler who has a smartphone.
The first widely available consumer software that featured face recognition was Apple’s iPhoto for Mac OS X. Google’s Picasa followed suit and Apple’s own iPhone Photos app gained a “Faces” feature soon afterward. Facebook added facial recognition this summer that semi-automated the tagging process. Hundreds of millions of photos are uploaded to Facebook each day. This means the odds are there are millions of photos of people who are unaware they are in a photo (perhaps passing by in the backgroud) that could be identified as the facial recognition database grows and gets more information. But, how much of a threat to privacy is this combination of millions of camera equipped mobile phones and millions of photos on social networking sites?
All Things D got a look at a report commissioned by the 