Editor’s note:  This is a guest post by Neil Patel, co-founder of  KISSmetrics  and blogger at  QuickSprout.com . You may have seen it by now… Google’s concept video about its new Project Glass . These glasses will do what your smart phone will do only without having to hold anything…you actually see your options at the side of your view.

Watch live streaming video from spaceflightnow at livestream.com SpaceX , the private space exploration company founded by PalPal and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk , is ready to boldly go where no private company has legitimately attempted to go before: The International Space Station . (Live video of the rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida is embedded above.) In just a few hours at 1:55am Pacific Time (which is 4:55am Eastern time) Saturday morning, SpaceX will attempt to make the first ever privately-funded launch to head to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

While Mark Zuckerberg rang in Facebook’s first day as a publicly traded company back in Silicon Valley , TechCrunch TV was in New York City to report on the scene from the NASDAQ stock market’s Marketsite building in Times Square. The opening bell and initial trades were a bit anti-climactic in person, as we’ve written — NASDAQ is a digital exchange after all, so there’s not too much to see visually.

Gillmor Gang – Gabe Rivera, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gilmor.

In case there was any confusion after Facebook’s eight years in business and its recent geographic expansions, it was cleared up today: Facebook’s home and heart lies in Silicon Valley.

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China’s Internet juggernaut Tencent  announced today that it would undergo a restructuring of its business units into six groups. Ren Yuxin was also named as the new chief operating officer and will head  up the media and social-networking groups. The six groups include: TEG – Technology & Engineering Group, comprised of Tencent Research and operating divisions

The tale of Docracy’s year-long journey is a fun one.

If only Facebook IPO day were a little less of a snoozefest than it is now. If only it had Zuckerberg impaling investors while riding a bull rampaging through a city. Or an elevator to space.

According to online analytics company comScore , Americans watched 37 billion online videos on sites like YouTube, Yahoo and Facebook in April. In total, 181 million U.S.