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PDF Democracy calls, who answers?
By far the most significant communications innovations of recent years, the mobile Internet and mobile applications have eclipsed the Internet, television, newspapers and radio as the world’s most popular way to access news, data and information. More than half the global population now pays to access information through services and applications on cellphones. Social impact and pattern change have occurred so profoundly, so fast that Wired pronounced that “the Web is dead,” replaced by the personal communications device...
read moreScreen-sensitive glove keeps info at hand
You want to call a friend, check email or search for a restaurant. Pull out your touch-screen gadget and let your fingers do the work. Problem: it’s freezing and the gloves are on. Your forefinger and thumb slide across the surface of the touchscreen like a frozen puck. Go fingerless? A fashion statement for the grunge crowd, perhaps, but one that leaves fingers freezing and your data untouchable. Put on an Echo Touch Glove and finger-skate to your data. Echo has put small pads of “eLink” fabric on the tip of the index...
read moreFinal Jeopardy: A machine that questions what it means to be human
The battle over intelligence is popular culture’s longest running show. Are computers smarter than people? Is the brain a second-rate technology? Can machines think? Will they become sentient and take over? Can they beat a human on Jeopardy!? The correct answer is: What is “Watson”? Next month, an IBM computing system will compete on Jeopardy! against the quiz show’s two most successful contestants. Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson (“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”) was...
read moreTalk with customers, work your tradeshows
Working remotely on a computer or on the phone doesn't give you the same connection you get from meeting your customers face-to-face. It's important to get out there and shake hands.
read moreThe Gorgeous Blur returns to NYC. Catch it April 6.
The Gorgeous Blur is coming back to NYC. The We Media conference returns to New York on April 6 with a fresh flash of the breakthrough projects, prescient insights and cutting-edge innovations shaping media and technology. If you’re a Digital daVinci — a changemaker in media, markets, technology and the way we interact with the world — you’ll want to join us at the Digital Events Sandbox in the financial district. This year’s conference is a lightening-strike for fast-movers: a one-day event filled with...
read moreCall 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.
read moreThe 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!
read moreBring it on. Calling all technovators, gamechangers and mediamakers to We Media 2011
Here’s how We roll in 2k11: We’re issuing a We Media challenge to create the brilliant city of the future; We’re awarding $50k to the best start-up ideas; We’re holding a boot camp for would-be entrepreneurs; We’re bringing the We Media conference back to New York; We’re adding new ways to think, create and change everything. There’s more coming. You should be, too.
read moreWe 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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