ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Two American sailors dubbed the "Captains of Calamity" are determined to finish their voyage across the Atlantic, despite having been rescued nine times in the past seven months. Traveling aboard the 40-ft. Nora, Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, both 71, set out from Norway in July with the aim of landing on the coastline of Maine within a year. Since then, they have troubled the emergency services of Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland and England with two battery failures, two cases of propeller damage and one more time when they got into trouble while rowing to the anchored yacht.
- 1/29/2016
- by Philip Boucher, @philipboucher
- PEOPLE.com
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos Two American sailors dubbed the "Captains of Calamity" are determined to finish their voyage across the Atlantic, despite having been rescued nine times in the past seven months. Traveling aboard the 40-ft. Nora, Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, both 71, set out from Norway in July with the aim of landing on the coastline of Maine within a year. Since then, they have troubled the emergency services of Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland and England with two battery failures, two cases of propeller damage and one more time when they got into trouble while rowing to the anchored yacht.
- 1/29/2016
- by Philip Boucher, @philipboucher
- PEOPLE.com
Say what you want about ChatRoulette -- and its attendant scary, hairy parts -- it is popular (in that can't-help-but-stare-at-an-accident kind of way). So it was only a matter of time before someone spawned a squeaky clean version with enough scale to capture the imagination, and the purse strings of advertisers. Enter ChatVille, a brand new Facebook application brought to you by the folks at Digsby, the creators of popular Im software.
CEO Steve Shapiro calls ChatVille a game, and it is in a sense. While chatting with a revolving set of Facebook users you can earn compliments and unlock badges, and... level up through positive experiences with other users! The app allows you to video chat with all your Facebook friends for the first time, right from the Facebook Web site, Shapiro says. Are you having fun yet? Team ChatVille is so sure you will it added the capability...
CEO Steve Shapiro calls ChatVille a game, and it is in a sense. While chatting with a revolving set of Facebook users you can earn compliments and unlock badges, and... level up through positive experiences with other users! The app allows you to video chat with all your Facebook friends for the first time, right from the Facebook Web site, Shapiro says. Are you having fun yet? Team ChatVille is so sure you will it added the capability...
- 5/21/2010
- by Lydia Dishman
- Fast Company
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