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Flipboard gets the finger, needs a hand

By Dale Peskin - July 28, 2010

One way or the other, Flipboard will make you flip. The new Pad app is either the personalized, social magazine you’ve been waiting for. Or it’s just another slick, content thief that fails to deliver on a fresh promise. At first flip, Flipboard is stunning (you have to download the app; the website is a [...]

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WeThink: Tabula Rasa DC Preview Thoughts

By Brian Reich - June 14, 2010

In advance of today’s Tabula Rasa DC event — WeMedia’s hyper-interactive discussion about how the iPad, and other tablet devices, will re-shape our media and technology landscape — I asked some uber-smart people to share their impressions and insights on the world post-iPad.  Several new essays will be released in the coming days/weeks, but for [...]

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A Disruptathon at TRDC

By Dale Peskin - June 8, 2010

Ask questions, raise issues, arrange meet-ups, provide feedback or note key findings for innovation. Just bring your iPad to TRDC and download the Disruptathon app. Or use an iTouch provided at the conference.

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Oh!magination stirs ours. Get it free at TRDC.

By Dale Peskin - May 25, 2010

Download the Oh!magination app for free when you attend Tabula Rasa DC on june 14.

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Lava lamps won’t save newspapers

By Dale Peskin - May 12, 2010

Google’s interest in saving newspapers is all about Google. Keep your friends close and frenemies closer.

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A taste of Tabula Rasa for DC

By Dale Peskin - May 6, 2010

Join connoisseurs of creativity for an iPad tasting from 1-4:30 pm, June 14 at Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va.

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Tabula Rasa: Onward to the Conceptual Age

By Dale Peskin - May 4, 2010

This is one of those moments – an important shift in digital culture that will be old news and obvious to everyone a few years from now.

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Now playing: The Throwdown Video

By Dale Peskin - April 9, 2010

Charlton Heston channels Moses. Steve Jobs assumes a higher authority. Crazy guys throw down an iPad at batting practice. All this and more in The Throwdown Video, a preview of Tabula Rasa. Check it out on the program page and on YouTube.

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WeThink: Its Time People Started Getting Fired For Buying IBM

By Brian Reich - April 7, 2010

Here is the next piece of the WeThink project, our effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing.  The project is based on the idea that we need to re-think the way we create, support and sustain ventures as well as how we innovate.  Next up: Government [...]

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Clean slate: Show us why the iPad matters

By Dale Peskin - April 1, 2010

Why we’re convening Tabula Rasa? The iPad is more than a gadget or a punch line. You get to show us why it really matters.

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WeThink. Differently.

By Brian Reich - March 27, 2010

Last week I told you about WeThink, a conversation about innovation and the future and iFOCOS/WeMedia will moderate over the coming year.  Today I am pleased to share the first piece of that conversation: WeThink. Differently. WeThink is effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing.  It [...]

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WeThink

By Brian Reich - March 23, 2010

I am excited to announce the launch of a new project that we are calling WeThink. What is it? WeThink is a conversation about innovation and the future — an effort to explore new ideas and promote solutions to the challenges that our society is facing. What’s the big deal? If you follow our work [...]

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Demand Media: Content innovation means letting algorithms lead

By Michael Stoll - March 11, 2010

Game Changer Demand Media’s Byron Reese describes the different thinking about content and the process of creating content.

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2009 WeMedia PitchIt Winners Update

By ebonder - March 2, 2010

2009 We Media PitchIt! winners SeeClickFix’s Ben Berkowitz and The Extraordinairies Jacob Colker talk with Ely Bonder about where they are now and what they took away from We Media 2009.

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We Media’s pitchit! Boot Camp

By Beth Laing - February 27, 2010

Get the inside track on how to get your new idea off the ground with advice and feedback from entrepreneurial experts.

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