Michael Young and I recently launched Shifd.com. Shifd is the origin of us winning Yahoo! Hack Day 2007. We recently launched as a free BETA and we plan to launch a 1.0 version by the end of '08. In the NYTimes R&D Labs I am focusing on flexible Newspaper 2.0 devices, mobile, data visualization, GPS aware content and many more exciting projects. Outside The Times, I recently helped cofound NYCResistor, a hacker space in Brooklyn where we offer hardware and programming classes and collectively work on innovative open source projects.

Nick Bilton is a Designer, User Interface Specialist, Technologist, Journalist, Hardware Hacker, etc. etc. He also has a bit an addiction with gadgets, and has been known to wait outside in the cold at 6 a.m. to acquire new releases of certain products. Nick is currently the Design Integration Editor and User Interface Specialist at The New York Times and The Times Research & Development Lab...