This week I wrote two pieces for Big Think and edcetera. One about note sharing and the other about Facebook stock and why I think it is undervalued.

My old friend George has just rebooted his Edupunk / My ESL Friends venture with the premise to finally earn a living from teaching English on the Internet. Hurray to that! Of course, offering live classes on the web that

About two weeks ago Skype introduced in-call advertisements in voice calls. Well, we can't say that we did not see this one coming.

There was an interesting discussion on the last The Verge Show. Joshua Topolsky, editor in chief of The Verge talked with Tim Wu who coined the term Net Neutrality. During this talk he made an interesting point about industries getting

This is a quick post for all the people on my Facebook fanpage who request that I help them learn English. Most regular visitors of this blog know how to make the distinction between coverage and analysis of all the

On Saturday a group of members from the Edupreneurs Club got together in a Google+ Hangout. Initially I thought we would be talking about the different online payment systems and the need for platforms as a middle man or better

Earlier today I had an interesting Skype chat about the possibility of me launching a MOOC for German. During this talk I had a somewhat Faustian inspiration: what if the classic publishing model wasn’t as bad as it seems? Yes,

By popular vote in our Edupreneurs Club, here is my take on the Edulang / ETS kerfuffle. I am shocked. Shocked that people in the comments were shocked that something like this had happened. In today’s publishing world the big

Back in January I predicted that italki will give it another shot and probably raise some more money. Well, yesterday I received an email from Kevin Chen in which he announced just that, a second angel round. Though Kevin did not disclose the actual numbers, he wrote that the funding is "in the hundreds of [...]

I think, it’s time to give you some updates on what I’ve been up to during the past couple of months. Yes, I am still here - if here means the Internet in general Honestly, I started too many times with a sentence like "I will blog more often here on KirstenWinkler.com" but we all [...]