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We have now moved our security level to defcon 5 - the highest level. Huffington Post is reporting that ALL NYC Apple stores are out of iPhones. Let’s remain calm, do NOT call 911. If you need to make a call and you were expecting to use a new iPhone to do it, just use a payphone. Shelters have been setup around the city to help those who are without their new gadget. Greyhound reports a special "Apple bus" leaving Port Authority at 7pm to a location that has iPhones in stock.

Apparently the AT&T stores around the city still have quantities of iPhones available for sale but if you are smart you will get there quick before the eBay looters get there and jack up the price again. I’ve got a guy down in Chelsea who has a few iPhones and will let one go for $850 cash.

Semi-interesting story - three weeks ago I was in the 14st store when a large tour bus pulled up in front. About 100 Asian people got off the phone led by a woman with a microphone. Each person got in the checkout line, purchased gift cards and then each one purchased five iPhones. I counted about 400 iPhones left the store in under one hour. So if you want to buy an iPhone for cash, just buy a gift card first.

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Last week we announced plans to expand CN with a network of experts around the world who will provide content in their areas of expertise. Today I’d like to share the first three experts: Darren Herman, Gary Vaynerchuk and Rick Turoczy. Darren will focus on marketing and advertising, Gary on building a brand, and Rick on PR and Portland startups. Here is a brief bio on each and their columns will begin later this week. If you have any suggestions for experts, please let me know.

Darren Herman

Darren Herman is a globally recognized digital media pioneer who is inspired by the white space that exists between advertising, media, and technology. Over the past 10 years, Herman has started five companies, sold two, and raised more than $40M in venture capital. His companies achieved numerous awards including Avenue-A | Razorfish’s critically acclaimed "Breakout Company of the Year" and AlwaysOn’s "Top 100 Private Company." He also personally won BusinessWeek’s Top Entrepreneur award in 2006. He has been featured in an MTV documentary and is frequently quoted in global marketing, technology and financial periodicals.

Over the past decade, Darren has stewarded clients such as Viacom, Panasonic, Sony Pictures, MTV, AT&T, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, American Eagle Outfitters, and PBS (amongst many others) into digital media campaigns utilizing search, rich media, traditional display, digital video, video games, mobile, and digital out-of-home.

In 2008, he released his first book, Coloring Outside the Lines: Confessions of a Digital Native.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk, the star of Wine Library TV, is Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ. With his unconventional, often irreverent commentary on wine, Gary has attracted a cult-like following of more than 60,000 viewers a day. In the name of "expanding one’s palate", Gary convinced Conan O’Brien to lick salted rocks and shared samples of dirt and grass with Ellen Degeneres. He routinely pans popular wines (even ones sold by Wine Library). He interrupts his webcasts with rants about his beloved New York Jets. This is not your typical wine expert. Customers depend on Gary for his advice and within a five year time period, Wine Library grew from a $4 million dollar business to a $45 million business.

Rick Turoczy

Rick Turoczy has helped Portland, Oregon, startups with traditional and Web-based communications activities for more than a dozen years–from spectacular dotcom IPOs to working with some of the best and brightest Web companies in Portland, today. A blogger for nearly a decade, Rick currently covers the startup tech scene throughout the Silicon Forest on his blog, Silicon Florist. He is most easily reached via Twitter.

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