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.
Jeff Gomez (@Jeff_Gomez), a multimedia producer and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, makes the case for art in a crazy, scary world.
If you live in Washington, DC, and can offer a little bit of your time, sign up and check out the project details. You can go down into the subway to see how long it takes to escape, or assist with mapping data and other text, photo and video tasks. NewsIt won our 2010 PitchIt Challenge, and we’ve been advising the project since then.
Australian web site StartupSmart has ranked the We Media PitchIt! Challenge among the world’s top 10 startup challenges. Wow – and thanks! We’re humbled to be listed among some truly ambitious challenges conducted by IBM, MIT, SXSW and others. Here’s the full list. One thing the Aussies liked, and we do too, is that the […]
One of the battles for our computing hearts and minds isn’t over mobile or networked anything. It’s over something so prosaic, so ordinary, so retro, it feels like a faded clipping from a family scrapbook: the offline world.
Now the hard part – the winners earned $25,000 and access to a network of world-changing We Media Mentors to help turn two big ideas into something real.