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.
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.
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.
The Knight News Challenge awards up to $5 million annually for innovative projects that use digital technology to transform the way communities send, receive and make use of news and information. The deadline for the next round of grants is Dec. 1, 2010. Learn more and apply at newschallenge.org.
SXSW Accelerator, part of the annual SXSW interactive conference, showcases new apps, products and services in front of a jury of industry experts, venture capitalists and a live audience. Info and application at SXSWi.
What if all the documents in your life were dynamic – from newspapers, magazines and books to bills, insurance policies, receipts, user manuals for all your gear – and packaging, structures and surfaces everywhere?
Congratulations to Ben Berkowitz, who has just been named a 2010 Technology Game Changer by the editors of The Huffington Post.
Has Wikileaks just reinvented investigative reporting? Is Flipboard the social magazine we’ve been waiting for? Can design hubs and templates can actually stir creativity at newspapers? Did Steve Jobs steal my old idea for the tablet? Opinions or insights? Let’s talk and share. We’ll share ours at a salon on current issues of creativity at […]
The Internet’s killing newspapers. Again. We’ve heard this for over a decade and a half. Prior to that doomsayers pointed to disinterested youth as the tide eroding readership and circulation. Before that? I suppose TV. Prior to TV, radio threatened. And so on. Taking these in reverse it would seem a) TV News would scarcely […]
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 promise. At first flip, Flipboard is stunning (you have to download the app; the website is a brochure). […]
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 […]
Buy Monday’s Washington Post. And Tuesday’s. And Wednesday’s. Or go to The Post’s Top Secret America. Now imagine if newspapers everywhere did this all the time.
Join us for creative chilling and a meetup at WeSpace at Lake Anne in Reston on August 7.