Eight ideas to use media and technology for innovative new ventures have been chosen as finalists for the 2012 We Media PitchIt! Challenge. The finalists will pitch their ideas at the We Media PitchIt! Conference April 18 in McLean, Va.
Apple’s acquisition this week of app search engine Chomp only begins to address the broader needs of consumers overwhelmed by thousands of apps and developers who want their attention.
The 2011 PitchIt Challenge winner launches its first public beta with landlord information on 133,000 addresses in New York City.
The introduction I wrote for our seminal We Media report is soon to be part of the educational lexicon in France. Here’s what I wrote in 2003: “There are three ways to look at how society is informed. The first is that people are gullible and will read, listen to, or watch just about anything. […]
Calling all media, technology and social dreamers: The 2012 We Media PitchIt Challenge is open to entries. Submit your big ideas or vote now.
Mark your calendar and plan to be there: The annual We Media innovation conference will be April 18 at USAToday / Gannett in McLean, Virginia. We’ll be sending invitations and registration details soon. Contact us now if you’d like to participate as a sponsor.
2011 PitchIt winner Ben Sacks makes entrepreneur his day job – and preps his first product for launch this month.
Once again, We Media is designing new space. There’s the physical space of weSpace, the co-working hub we’re launching for entrepreneurs and digital creatives. There’s the social space where we connect innovators through technology, collaboration and creativity. And there’s the space between the ears where we consider our place in a shape-shifting world.
Old plan: Scrape all data, build giant app, spend all money.
New plan: Build small app, get data from city government, make app bigger, spend less money.
Just in time for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a new iPad App explores the past, present and future of the World Trade Center. For story-tellers and publishers, the app also explores new territory and a new template for digital books – in this case, a collection of stories told mainly through video.
Ben Sacks has a big idea, $25,000 to spend on it and a strong network of advisers. But he’s still searching for the right web developer. Does the “do good” tone to Ben’s business make it unattractive to coders? Or has Ben simply stumbled into a startup challenge that every good founder needs to solve?
Surrendering to a two-week Facebook campaign, Israeli dairy companies that control the cheese market announced they were cutting prices by 25 percent.
The experience with We Media was my inflection point. Since then, we’ve made
some beautiful progress. Fundraising is a lot harder than anticipated, but we’re
getting there.
I remember when Google was amazing. But recently, I find that Google isn’t my first stop. There are just so many choices, and so many of them that seem to know me better than Google does.