It also looks like the stabilized video is magnified a little bit. Regardless, these tools are really neat and they are still in their infancy. It's good to see that GooTube still believes in user-generated content.
I think we're still in the infancy of crowdfunding. Backers are donating real dollars into crowdfunded projects, and they're obviously going to want to see a finished product. It's going to be interesting to see how crowdfunding evolves over the next 10 years.
Some people are using e-mail like IM and e-mail is built as an asynchronous communication system. In my opinion, that's where the friction happens.
The author of this post brings up a great point about defining expectations on reply times. I think it's healthy to create an auto-reply that states that you only check e-mail x number of times a day.
New York City is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, and I'll bet that the diversity in New York is evident in New York's tech scene.