Call for entries: $50k for media startups
Entries are now closed for the 2011 We Media PitchIt Challenge. The challenge offers $50,000 in seed funding to help launch two innovative media and tech startups. Finalists will pitch their ideas at the We Media NYC conference.
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The rise of repression
Suppression of free speech in democratically challenged countries like China, Sudan and Belarus is an old and resilient story. It's also fresh again - in the U.S. and Europe. Happy new year!
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We Media Preview
We're rolling out a number of new projects in the next few days, including details and registration for the 2011 PitchIt Challenge and for the 2011 We Media conference. We've also just re-designed the We Media web site. You're looking at it. Consider this a realtime preview - and pardon the dust and broken bits while we get things sorted out.
Read MoreSpreading their wings
We're rooting for two of the eight companies presenting at a startup pitch event this week in Tysons Corner, Virginia. NewsIT was one of the winners of the We Media PitchIt seed investment challenge earlier this year in Miami. Ringio, a slick virtual PBX service with built-in CRM. Ringio works out of WeSpace, the co-working studio we opened in Reston, Virginia, this past summer.
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The future of documents
What if all the documents in your life were dynamic - from newspapers, magazines and books to bills, insurance policies, receipts, user manuals for all your gear - and packaging, structures and surfaces everywhere?
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SeeClickFix named a HuffPo Game Changer
Congratulations to Ben Berkowitz, who has just been named a 2010 Technology Game Changer by the editors of The Huffington Post.
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Introducing WeSpace
Our new co-working office in Reston, Virginia, provides an inspiring “place” and a community for independent professionals who find they work better together than they do alone.
Read MoreNot funny: The real costs of our gizmos
It's not a ha-ha spoof, and it's not a ha-ha issue, either. The environmental, social and human impact of our consumption gets so much less attention than the features and flaws of the latest release.
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SeeClickFix in The Guardian
Dan Kennedy wrote for The Guardian a flattering profile of SeeClickFix, one of the 2009 winners of our PitchIt investment challenge. Congratulations CEO Ben Berkowitz and crew - and stay tuned for more PitchIt later this summer.
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Get rid of the crappy stuff
When he got the promotion to CEO in 2006, Nike's Mark Parker asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs if he had any advice. "Get rid of the crappy stuff," Parker says Jobs told him.
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Last call: iPad Throwdown April 29
We’re a week away from Tabula Rasa, our iPad/app/tablet computing deep dive in New York – and it’s nearly full. To...
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Stir up some wonderful April 29 in NYC
Apple has tapped the most powerful force on the planet - human passion. Even more remarkable, the iPad has unleashed an outpouring of that passion - a hunger for creativity and experimentation.
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We Media in Mediabistro
Hey, Mediabistro, thanks for asking: Hey, Andrew Nachison and Dale Peskin, How’d You Form a Media Think Tank?. Sorry, as far as I can...
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Getting ready for #wemedia Miami next week
We're busy mashing mint, and a few other ingredients for We Media Miami next week. Please try to say hello to Dale and me if you're there, and if not, join us, contribute and say hi online.
