Jackie Rau stands on the corner of Beverly Boulevard and Alvarado Street in Los Angeles, watching as police officers in riot gear prepare to arrest a protester outside of a Chevron gas station.

Rau zooms in as she films the commotion. The activist is cuffed and placed in the back of a white police van. The van doors close, and Rau shifts her focus to the large crowd gathered around her. The video ends, and she begins another live stream.

Warning: The following video contains some profanity.

“Broadcasting live from a protest in a downtown L.A. Chevron gas station,” Rau says in the video taken last week. “Some girl just got arrested…. There’s police officers everywhere. Everywhere. Just trying to show everybody what’s really going on at these things. Nothing’s masked. Nothing’s edited. All real life and live.”

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Since the news broke that Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, both mainstream media outlets and citizens have been streaming the wave of protests that erupted in response.

Rau used an app created in Newport Beach called TapThere. Similar to other video streaming programs such as Livestream and Ustream.tv, TapThere users share their experiences online in real time.

Although other apps also streamed Ferguson protest feeds, TapThere gives amateur videographers and their fans some extra features, including a GPS map so viewers can find videos shot in specific areas.

Rau used the app to stream protests in L.A. because it created a sense of community. She wanted to share the adrenaline-filled experience, but said she felt limited by SnapChat and Instagram.

“On TapThere, I was able to keep it live for as long as the situation called for, not knowing when those 10-15 seconds of importance would occur,” said Rau, 23. “It was raw, but it was very much the truth, and that’s what the world should see.”

The app, launched December 2013, has “between five to six figures in users” at any given time, according to TapThere founder Curtis Hutten.

The goal, Hutten said, is to turn live streaming into more of a social network.

“People can use 140 characters and tell a little about what’s going on in Ferguson, or they can send a short video clip,” Hutten said. “But with TapThere, you can zoom into protests; you can walk with people using the app.”

Jordan Bray drove down to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara last Wednesday after watching protesters storm the 110 Freeway on TV news. Unsatisfied with only helicopter and sideline views, he decided to stream the protests in front of the federal courthouse downtown.

Bray said he wanted to show a “real,” boots-on-the-ground  view of the protests instead of the “regulated” version seen on television broadcasts.

“It’s completely personal,” Bray, 20, said. “These protesters used it because they had a reason for it. They used it to show the world the real news; to show everyone their experience. It hits at home.”

Even though Chris sold Streamlined Fusion over 4 years ago, we’re still amazed at the exceptional quality of work that that team produced.

They built a lot of very successful brands that thrive to this day.

In recognition of their achievements, here are some samples of their work from 2007.

Logo Design

Website Design

4×6 Promotional Handouts

Event and Venue Promotions

Promotional Handouts and Brochures

Have you ever wanted to share something quickly and easily? Like a picture, video, or song…

Sure there’s Facebook and Twitter, but what if you want to securely share your media in a manner that’s not public? What do you do?

To date there has been no solution that met the latter criteria; that is until now.

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3. No usage limitations or storage/bandwidth quotas
4. 100% Free to use – No login or registration required
5. Simple to use controls

When you want to share video, or groups of movies, use VidsToCloud.com

With VidsToCloud.com you can:

• Upload and play high definition versions of your video
• Download your HD video
• Easily share your video via email
• Get a special “short URL” to easily share video on services like Twitter
• Instantly play and stream HD videos live within your browser
• Delete your video after you’re finished sharing it

When you want to share pictures, or groups of images, use PicsToCloud.com

With PicsToCloud.com you can:

• View high resolution versions of your photos
• Download your pictures
• Easily share your images via email
• Get a special “short URL” to easily share images on services like Twitter
• Print full sized versions of your pictures
• Delete your pictures after you’re finished sharing them

When you want to share music, or groups of songs, use TunesToCloud.com

With TunesToCloud.com you can:

• Play high definition versions of your music
• Download your music
• Easily share your music via email
• Get a special “short URL” to easily share music on services like Twitter
• Instantly play and stream HD songs live within your browser
• Delete your music after you’re finished sharing it

As you already know, SizableSend.com is the easiest and fastest way to send large files free.

In the past you were only able to do this through the website SizableSend.com and our Android App that allowed you to send large files, but we’re pleased to announce that you will now also be able to do it on any iOS device (iPhones, iPads and iPhones)!

Currently with iOS devices, if a file is larger than 5-25MB there was NO way to share it with other people through your device, the Sizable Send iOS App eliminates this problem! Sharing videos and documents with friends and family has never been easier.

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Using the Sizable Send iOS App to send large files is as easy as one click. There is no easier way to freely and securely send large files on your iOS device.

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Send Large Files on Your Android Device

As most of you already know, SizableSend.com is the easiest way to send large files free.

For years you were only able to do this through the web but we’re pleased to announce that you will now also be able to do it on your Android phone!

In the past, if a file was larger than 5-20MB there was NO way to share it with other people through your phone, the Sizable Send App solves that problem.

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Send large videos, pictures, music and files in seconds with the new Sizable Send Android App.

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Everyone at the Kerstner Foundation is pleased to announce our WristbandFacebook Photo Contest. Our goal is to raise $5,000 by the end of 2012.

100% of proceeds will go to our Charity of the Month or a charity of your choice*.

How It Works:

1. Get a free wristband
2. Post a photo of you wearing your wristband on our Facebook Page
3. For each visible wristband in the photo we’ll donate $50

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Veteran entrepreneur Chris Kerstner and The Kerstner Foundation offer free web design, web hosting, marketing services and PR to all! Only prerequisite: you must be a registered 501(c)(3).

Two decades in the marketing business and 1000’s of clients later there was one glaring inefficiency that angered Chris Kerstner; when most non-profits were in the start-up phase they had little or no money to spend on marketing and PR. This created a vicious cycle – non-profits couldn’t afford a good website and PR and without it they couldn’t advance their cause. What were they to do?

Chris Kerstner formed The Kerstner Foundation to change this and offer these expensive marketing services free of charge to registered non-profits.

To date The Kerstner Foundation has created over 250 free websites and hosts over 500 websites for free. In addition they have provided over $1M in free marketing and PR services over the past few years. Their goal is to reach over $10M in charitable work in the next 18 months.

About The Kerstner Foundation:

The Kerstner Foundation is a non-profit founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Chris Kerstner. Its goal is to provide free web hosting, web design, marketing and PR to other non-profits. They support over 300 non-profits across the world. Their goal is to make it easy for non-profits to get a digital presence for free, thus allowing charities to spend their money on their charitable goals instead of paying for expensive marketing and PR services. Support The Kerstner Foundation.

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Popular large file sharing website Sizable Send recently surpassed 10 million downloads since its commercial debut roughly 2 years ago.

SizableSend.com is the most popular way to send large files for free. Unlike other sites, it requires no login, no registration, lets you send unlimited files up to 2GB each and even allows unlimited uploads/downloads of shared files – Setting itself apart from all other companies that offer similar file sharing services.

Successful young entrepreneur Chris Kerstner founded the company because he was sick of the competition, such as TransferBigFiles.com and YouSendIt.com, requiring you to fill out a form prior to sending a file – Or worse, restricting all uploaded files to less than 250MBs.

SizableSend.com has since skyrocketed into the leader in the free file sharing service space. It boasts about 250,000 active users and did close to 1,000,000 page views last month. They are currently expanding at about 30% a month and Kerstner predicts they will do over 20 million downloads in the next 6 months.

SizableSend.com is still the only site that allows you to share unlimited files without any restrictions and Kerstner says he plans on keeping it that way long into the future.

About Sizable Send:

SizableSend.com is an industry leader in facilitating any MAC/PC user to easily share large files through any web browser. It has been the ranked the #1 way to send big files for over 4 years and continues to dominate in the file sharing space. For media inquiries please contact Info@Kerstner.co.

Learn all about how over at the Kerstner Foundation.

About The Kerstner Foundation:

The Kerstner Foundation is a non-profit founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Chris Kerstner. Its goal is to provide free web hosting, web design, marketing and PR to other non-profits. They support over 300 non-profits across the world. Their goal is to make it easy for non-profits to get a digital presence for free, thus allowing charities to spend their money on their charitable goals instead of paying for expensive marketing and PR services. Support The Kerstner Foundation.

Nonprofit = Free Hosting

Cool news from Chris Kerstner’s Foundation – Recently the Kerstner Foundation, in partnership with Hosted Fusion announced that they were offering free web hosting to nonprofits organizations.

A little under 3 weeks later they are elated to announce that over 45 organizations have applied, and all were approved!

All together, these nonprofits will now save close to $50,000 a year in web hosting bills; $50,000 that can now be spent on great charitable causes instead of wasted on some inanimate server in a data center.

Although Mr. Kerstner felt this was a great start, he had this to say:

“Only 45? That’s not good enough for me. There are over 91,000 registered nonprofits in the U.S. alone; I can only venture to guess that many of them have websites they are paying to be hosted. There is no reason any of these nonprofits should be paying for this.”

When asked how many freely hosted nonprofits it would take to satisfy him he responded:

“Ahhh, all of them! Whether they host freely with one of my companies or through other means, there is no reason even one of these nonprofits should be paying for website hosting. Especially when every dollar they save can then be spent on something much more important, like poverty, mosquito nets or clean drinking water.”

If you are a nonprofit that wants free web hosting, apply here.