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NewsIt crowdsources DC subway investigation

Posted by on May 26, 2011 in Innovation, Journalism, Pitch It | 4 comments

If you live in Washington, DC, and can offer a little bit of your time, sign up and check out the project details. You can go down into the subway to see how long it takes to escape, or assist with mapping data and other text, photo and video tasks. NewsIt won our 2010 PitchIt Challenge, and we've been advising the project since then.

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PitchIt ranked among world’s top startup challenges

Posted by on May 24, 2011 in Investment, News Releases & Updates, Pitch It | 9 comments

Australian web site StartupSmart has ranked the We Media PitchIt! Challenge among the world’s top 10 startup challenges....

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The future is offline

Posted by on May 11, 2011 in Culture, Features | 4 comments

One of the battles for our computing hearts and minds isn't over mobile or networked anything. It's over something so prosaic, so ordinary, so retro, it feels like a faded clipping from a family scrapbook: the offline world.

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