April 16th, 2013

Cory Booker’s #Waywire Becomes A “Pinterest For Video” With Refocus On Curation

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Where do you put the videos you find around the web, and how do they express your identity? #Waywire 2.0 aims to be the answer. Co-founded by Newark Mayor Cory Booker and launched nine months ago, Waywire focused on original and user-generated content. But with today’s update the beta recenters around you collecting videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Vine and news sites into themed playlists. → Read More

November 23rd, 2012

The Weekly Good: Cory Booker On Public Service, Twitter, And…Burning Buildings

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…Newark, New Jersey Mayor, Cory Booker. You might have heard a story or two about the United States’ most famous mayor, be it from our own Disrupt conference, BuzzFeed, Twitter and pretty much… → Read More

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September 10th, 2012

CoryBooker:“MarkZuckerbergIsAnAmericanHero”

When discussing social media and how he uses it for his political work as mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker called out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg as an “American Hero” for his work on connecting the world. → Read More

September 10th, 2012

Cory Booker: The Power Of The People Is More Important Than People In Power

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Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 in San Francisco. We all know him as the Mayor who has taken Twitter by storm, and also the fellow who has no problem jumping into burning buildings to save people. I’m not kidding. → Read More

August 13th, 2012

Hands On With #waywire, Cory Booker’s Video Service That Turns You Into A Newscaster

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Don’t let big media decide what’s important. #waywire enters private alpha today to let you collect, curate, and share video news from across the Internet. Clips from top-tier broadcasters, citizen journalists, and original web content creators can be cobbled together to let you share your perspective on what’s happening in the world.

Created in part by Newark Mayor Cory Booker and backed… → Read More

June 30th, 2012

#waywire, Cory Booker’s Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice

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“There’s an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up” Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker tells me. So he’s building #waywire, a news site that features original and syndicated video content, but that also lets viewers record and share their responses.

“Traditional news sources aren’t in any way talking to millennials” Booker says, so #waywire is designed to deliver them content from… → Read More