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Niel Bekker: In New York

Niel studies games, media and music in all their 21st-century guises. Currently, he is the social products editor at The Huffington Post in New York. His perfect weekend is made of Arsenal, basil pesto and meme humour. His perfect weekend is made of Arsenal, basil pesto and meme humour.

• Qwiki and Storify: Disruptive storytelling comes of age

  On October 26, Qwiki, a new "information experience" platform, opened its doors to pre-invited users as an Alpha web product. As this year’s winning startup of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, a lot of expectation is riding on co-founder and CEO, Doug Imbruce, who is promising to do nothing less than change the way we receive information. In its current form, Qwiki trawls the API’s of the web (including Wikipedia, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Yelp and others) to assemble (mostly) coherent, interactive ...