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NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they’ve learned along the way and what’s next. This essay is by Sandra Ekong, founder, COO & Creative Director of Beanstockd. Changing the Game for Online Games and Environmentalism Quick stats before we get started: Who we are. [...]

URL: www.geniusrocket.com What: An open, crowdsourcing marketplace for the advertising industry – and a hub for viral marketing. Anyone can compete to make ads for anyone. Brands pay for the most creative work, which can come from anywhere; and GeniusRocket offers prizes for the best work. The model disrupts the traditional business relationship between advertisers [...]

This could be a game changer for book publishing. A new company called Offbeat Guides produces personalized travel books based on your itinerary and travel details. It was founded by Dave Sifry, a serial entrepreneur (and friend) from San Francisco who previously led Technorati and LinuxCare. Dave has participated in our We Media conferences for [...]

Awards honor people, projects and ideas that use media to change the world. An international panel of pioneers from media, technology, business, social activism and blogging will judge nominees for the new We Media Game Changers Awards. The awards recognize people, projects, ideas and organizations leading change and inspiring a better world through media. Winners [...]

A scramble intersection stops all traffic. Pedestrians cross every which way. Tokyo has one. So does Toronto, at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets. Everything about this makes my head spin and drift inward in wonder: the compression of movement and mass through time lapse, the blink and it’s gone, the birds-eye view, the [...]

(Here’s the update sent to our friends today via email. If you aren’t on the list you can use the form on the right rail of our web site to sign up.) We’ve been on the move in Europe and the U.S. in recent weeks – and also hunkered down at We Media HQ working [...]