Announcing the 2012 PitchIt! Challenge Finalists
Eight ideas to use media and technology for innovative new ventures have been chosen as finalists for the 2012 We Media PitchIt! Challenge. The finalists will pitch their ideas at the We Media PitchIt! Conference April 18 in McLean, Va.
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PitchIt Challenge offers $50K for digital media startups
Calling all media, technology and social dreamers: The 2012 We Media PitchIt Challenge is open to entries. Submit your big ideas or vote now.
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Plan now: We Media conference and PitchIt challenge
Mark your calendar and plan to be there: The annual We Media innovation conference will be April 18 at USAToday / Gannett in McLean, Virginia. We'll be sending invitations and registration details soon. Contact us now if you'd like to participate as a sponsor.
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An app for 9/11 also explores the future of books
Just in time for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a new iPad App explores the past, present and future of the World Trade Center. For story-tellers and publishers, the app also explores new territory and a new template for digital books - in this case, a collection of stories told mainly through video.
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Video: Keep me human with your work
Jeff Gomez (@Jeff_Gomez), a multimedia producer and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, makes the case for art in a crazy, scary world.
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NewsIt crowdsources DC subway investigation
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
Australian web site StartupSmart has ranked the We Media PitchIt! Challenge among the world’s top 10 startup challenges. Wow –...
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The future is offline
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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Will the NYTimes (paywall) matter?
Until it becomes something else - something worthy of a genuine, heartfelt, passionate backlash - The New York Times will remain a story that no paywall can re-write, no matter how porous or protective it may be.
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This is quite a group
The brainpower gathering for We Media NYC, on April 6th, is off the charts.
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Announcing the PitchIt Challenge finalists
Here they are - introducing nine awesome ideas we'd love to see come to life, and we're going to do our best to help them. Meet the 2011 finalists of the We Media PitchIt Challenge.
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We Media NYC Mixer With Mediashift
Meet us in New York April 5 and help kick off the We Media NYC conference. We're teaming up with PBS MediaShift for a mixer from 6 pm to 9 pm at Solas Bar, 232 E 9th St (between Stuyvesant St & 2nd Ave). Click to RSVP.
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The networked culture comes of age
For the first time since the web itself was created, business, markets, governments and society as a whole are aligning around the networked culture.
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The app in the car
The 2011 Mini Countryman takes the integration of tech, media and cars to a new level.
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Old school ads seek a social media guru
A new campaign for a nonprofit health organization reveals the limits of traditional advertising - and the tantalizing lure of online networks. If you're a social media guru, Selfchec needs your help.
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