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frog is hosting Churchill Club for an evening with award-winning journalist Sarah Lacy and Max Levchin, CEO of Slide and co-founder of PayPal. Lacy released her book Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and Rise of Web 2.0 last May, after 10 years of reporting on startup business and culture in the Valley. On Monday, August 25, she’ll interview one of the book's biggest stars: Max Levchin, founder of PayPal and Slide, and investor in a host of other Web 2.0 names. Then Max turns the tables and interviews Sarah.

Passion is the genesis of genius. So says FlashForward in the mission statement of this year’s conference, connecting Flash fanatics the world over. This year, frog Jared Ficklin explores the potential of Flash as a means of sound visualization. His session, “See Sound, Sound Visualization in Nature and in Code” draws the line between digital and analog audio waves.

The hardware and software design of mobile devices is inextricably linked, the outer casing governing our access to the data within. On August 20, at the Intel Developer Forum, frogs Paul Bradley and Knut Graf will lead a workshop on the integration of the two: “Designing Mobile Interface Devices from the Outside-In.”

This fall, frog founder Hartmut Esslinger will lend his critical eye as a judge of the 2008 China's Most Successful Designs Award, evaluating the creative, strategic, and social power of the nations’ top designs. Sponsored by FORTUNE China Magazine and China Bridge International, the award program seeks to recognize innovation in the Chinese marketplace.

Much has been made of Western brands’ efforts to win over the Chinese consumer at the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. But the marketing goes both ways, as Chinese companies press global consumers to recognize its new, more robust business world – a world that goes far beyond its reputation for cheap manufacturing. frog Strategy Director Ravi Chhatpar speaks with Forbes on the subject.

Creative Director David Merkoski talks to CNET Live’s Tom Merritt about trends in design for touch screens and frog’s work on HP’s new TouchSmart PC. “We’ve been using our fingers forever and it’s a shift in the industry away from audio visual as the only means of input and output. So a lot of companies are grappling with what it means to redesign their products from a touch consumer experience.” The interview starts at minute 10:06.