The life of creators who try to provide their readers with good and original content is getting harder every day. On the one hand you have content farms like Demand Media, eHow and others cranking out mediocre pieces at rates … Continue reading →

Skype To Hire 350 People in 2011 LibreDigital Raises $4 Million For Digital Reading Technologies Tablets Rekindle Our Love of Reading-Books, Too HarperCollins Plans To Publish Novel Submitted To Social Network for Teen Writers Justin.tv To Launch Social Video-Sharing App Instructure … Continue reading →

Visiting the Smart.fm website you will notice that the service is announcing its migration to a new (old) site called iKnow!. Smart.fm will shut down on March 31st and does not take new registrations for that matter. I have always … Continue reading →

One of my resolutions for this year is to create more videos and therefore I decided to reboot my KWVlog today. The general plan is to talk once or twice a week about what I’ve learned from my EDUKWEST interviews, … Continue reading →

Competition is good, especially for the customers. Today, Busuu, now 1.5 million users strong, announced a new partnership with The Guardian and MacMillan, two well established brands and as British as five o’clock tea and scones (in the Savoy, of … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening, I was one lucky education blogger when Michael Staton, CEO and co-founder of Inigral made the time and agreed to do a KWestions interview. I’m happy to share the exciting news as one of the first with you. … Continue reading →

Scribblar added a very powerful feature to its virtual classroom today. With the click of a button in the menu bar teachers can now add educational content from Wolfram Alpha directly on the interactive whiteboard. Stefan Richter, Founder and CEO … Continue reading →

TeachStreet have shared some interesting data with us just recently on their blog. When I got the opportunity yesterday, I chimed in for a quick talk with TeachStreet’s founder and CEO David Schappell. In a nutshell, their efforts of building a … Continue reading →

I have always been a firm believer that language and culture are inseparable. If you start teaching or learning a language the culture will play a major role from day one. Often the culture of a certain part of the … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago Khan Academy announced a partnership with BitTorrent, up to now mostly known for being the place to get illegal copies of whatever you want. Sure, the technology itself is brilliant and in combination with a … Continue reading →

Some days ago my friend Vikrama Dhiman asked me via Twitter I want to learn French. How many classes do you think one can pick it up in - writing plus speaking. Business Level. The answer is, of course, more … Continue reading →

The popular presentation and document sharing service SlideShare launched an instant web conference feature based on the SlideShare platform and the VoIP service tokbox. It’s called Zipcast. From now on you can turn every public presentation on SlideShare into a … Continue reading →

Jon Bischke, serial founder of startups in the education space and currently entrepreneur in residence at Battery Ventures gave me the opportunity to interview him via email. As he is one of the thought leaders in the hackedu space, you … Continue reading →

Sometimes there are slow news weeks and other times you can barely keep up with all what’s happening. Well, the company of my interview partner for KWestions episode 11 definitely falls under the second one as they introduced a bunch … Continue reading →

I find this truly a fascinating story. It has everything, a "good looking" main character who is a real Baron from one of Germany’s oldest noble families but who is also tremendously popular amongst the people. Nothing could stop him … Continue reading →

Interesting news from Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital. Apparently, the Kno is in talks to sell its hardware manufacturing part of the company and then focus on software and digital textbook delivery only. According to sources the "quicker … Continue reading →

Today, I learned something really interesting. It seems as if Skype is not respecting French law and therefore is "illegally operating" in France. At least, that’s according to the blog Tic et Net of the French magazine L’Express. It is … Continue reading →

Quoting the tagline of that classic movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito "Only their mother can tell them apart" and for me it was quite a shocker last week. I got followed by doMore on Twitter early last week … Continue reading →

In the 80s and early 90s we had a show on German television with the title "1000 Meisterwerke" - 1000 masterpieces. Every episode was about 10 minutes long and about a certain masterpiece in one of the big museums across … Continue reading →

There are lots of text, voice and video chat applications on Facebook and some of them like TinyChat are doing pretty well as it seems. And then there is still the rumor of a deep Skype integration on the social network. … Continue reading →

News from a veteran amongst the language learning communities: Palabea that had first launched its service in 2007 in public beta just received an investment of 1 million + Euro from the Investitionsbank Berlin Brandenburg (IBB) which turns the language … Continue reading →

A few of years ago, it seemed like mobile applications, the expected "next big thing" at the time, would just never take off.  Everyone was excited, people were creating apps and expecting huge adoption, telco companies were projecting an explosion … Continue reading →

I had the great pleasure of talking with Yoni Cheifetz, Managing Director Isreal at Lightspeed Venture Partners for this KWestions episode. Due to the discussion around the recent modifications in Google’s algorithm and their almost immediate effect on some businesses … Continue reading →

Readability Just Became Instapaper’s Publisher Payment Layer Google Censors Its Own Education Investment in BitTorrent 8 Educational iPhone Apps for Small Business Owners Everloop Brings New Social Network for Tweens to 56,000 Schools Meet The Father Of The Second Largest Search … Continue reading →