Alpha, beta, Zeega
The 300 block of Broadway in Cambridge, less than a mile from Harvard Square, was once called “antiques row” for its shops that sold gewgaws and thingamabobs from the past. But now it’s the future that’s on display there. Three Harvard Internet entrepreneurs have rented an office on the block, where they hope to help change the face of modern digital media. Their engine of change is Zeega, a software platform and social network they are launching today. It provides an intuitive way for Internet users to harness the Web’s riches of text, imaging, and audio for multimedia stories. Journalists can use the platform to shape their reports (and have, as in this piece from last week on the gun debate). Academics and students can use it to enliven class projects (and have, as in “Information Overload” from a Harvard course last fall). Web surfers can use it too (as in these playful...