Dive Summary:
- Ariel Braunstein and Scott Kabat, former Pure Digital Technologies execs overseeing the company's Flip Video camcorders, have started a new company, Knowmia, which is focused on providing educational videos.
- The freemium service offers crowd-sourced video lessons from teachers.
- Knowmia currently has about 7,000 videos being made available on the Web and through the company's iPad app.
From the article:
The leaders of Pure Digital Technologies simplified video camcorders and revolutionized the market for amateur video with the Flip Video pocket camcorders. Now they’re back with a plan to improve supplemental education (think online tutoring) with crowdsourced lessons. ...