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PDF 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.
read morePitchIt 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 – and thanks! We’re humbled to be listed among some truly ambitious challenges conducted by IBM, MIT, SXSW and others. Here’s the full list. One thing the Aussies liked, and we do too, is that the PitchIt prize does not require commercial winners give up any equity. But we do ask for something back from the winners – they’ve got to “pay it forward” by sharing what they...
read moreThe 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.
read morePando Projects and Stable Renters win Pitch It! Challenge
Now the hard part - the winners earned $25,000 and access to a network of world-changing We Media Mentors to help turn two big ideas into something real.
read moreRegrets: Can’t make the Steve Jobs meetup tonight. Zuckerberg is coming to the house for dinner.
In the City of Fools, a last-minute, April 1 invitation for a private, drop-by with a dignitary is as predictable as cherry blossoms. Still, we appreciated this one to Washington’s frustrated, but very creative, development community: [modevdc] New Meetup: Sit down with Steve Jobs From: “Pete Erickson” To: [modevdc]-announce@meetup.com What: Sit down with Steve Jobs When: Friday, April 1, 2011 7:00 PM Where: (A location has not been chosen yet.) Why: Steve Jobs is in DC today on an unpublicized tour seeking to connect...
read moreLet’s keep the power in our hands. Join us on Wed., April 6 in NYC. This time it’s personal.
Click Here for Live Coverage For all the world-changing of recent weeks you’d think there were more important matters to parse than The New York Times paywall, AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post, the new iPad or the latest corporate power play for domination on the Net. Here’s a suggestion: let’s refocus the conversation on the Power of Us. We’ve bringing leaders of the personal media revolution to New York on April 6 to restore the balance of power: – Independent journalist Mona Eltahawy, who channels and gives...
read moreIntroducing Clear Health Costs
Clear Health Costs will offer consumer-friendly information about the costs of health care services and products.
read moreIntroducing Fast Cast
FastCast delivers a local, personalized, video newscast straight to mobile.
read moreIntroducing Meridian Stories
Meridian Stories is designed as a YouTube-like environment, driven by regularly scheduled, global competitions between schools, around short-form storytelling using image, words, film and music.
read moreIntroducing Stable Renters
Stable Renters will assemble a profile and score for every rental property and owner based on a history of violations, lawsuits, pending charges, bedbugs, ceiling leaks and more.
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