Kickstarter

Why Was Planet Money's Kickstarter Campaign So Successful? - Posted May 13, 2013
At the time of this writing, NPR's Planet Money has raised $524,286 on Kickstarter. The project has a day left, and is a pretty remarkable feat considering the sum is more than 10 times their initial goal of $50,000. So how did they do it? First of... [TVSpy]

Why Was Planet Money's Kickstarter Campaign So Successful? - Posted May 13, 2013
At the time of this writing, NPR's Planet Money has raised $524,286 on Kickstarter. The project has a day left, and is a pretty remarkable feat considering the sum is more than 10 times their initial goal of $50,000. So how did they do it? First of... [10,000 Words]

Which Crowdfunding Site Has the Best Terms? - Posted May 8, 2013
Press coverage of Donald Trump's foray into crowdfunding with FundAnything has said Trump wants to open crowdfunding up to the masses. Which got us thinking about which crowdfunding sites have the most favorable terms for users. Kickstarter takes a 5 percent cut from su... [AllFacebook]

Pico: An AA Battery Sized Hot-End for RepRap 3D Printers Coming to Kickstarter - Posted April 30, 2013
(3D Printing Industry) Pico is B3 Innovations' tiny, all metal 3mm filament hot-end for RepRap based 3D printers. Pico is made out of a single piece of 303 stainless steel with a custom (brass) nozzle to maintain a solid, fluid-tight finish.   Pico has high precision cooling fins in order to pr... [3D Printing Insider]

RappiDelta on Kickstarter - Posted April 19, 2013
(3D Printing Industry) RappiDelta, a delta type 3D printer, is seeking funding on Kickstarter to start production and further development of the company's large format 3D printer. The delta type 3D printer is a departure from the more traditional cartesian 3d printers. RappiDelta is a delta type 3D printer that can... [3D Printing Insider]

3DAGOGO - A Repository of Tested 3D Models - Posted April 18, 2013
(3D Printing Industry) 3DAGOGO is focusing on the 3D printing of everyday things such as household items. The aim is to lower the barriers hindering the wider adoption of 3D printing in the consumer segment. 3DAGOGO is creating a repository of 3D printable files that have already been tested and thus... [3D Printing Insider]

3D Refiner on Kickstarter - Posted April 9, 2013
(3D Printing Industry) 3D Refiner is intended to be used for 3D printed objects that have been produced using higher layers for time-saving purposes, but which are still needed to be on-par with the quality of higher resolution objects. This would conventionally mean some intricate manual smoothing, involving a lot of... [3D Printing Insider]

New Portable J-Rev 3D Printer - Posted April 9, 2013
(3Ders.org) J-Rev, created by Benjamin McDaniel, the founder of Japica, is a new desktop 3D printer that uses "Fused Filament Fabrication" (FFF) technology, and it uses new concepts for its motion. The X and Y system was derived from the CoreXY theory. With this system Benjamin could use bigger Nema... [3D Printing Insider]

Netflix to Bring Back 'Arrested Development' on May 26 - Posted April 4, 2013
As promised, Netflix has resurrected the critically acclaimed, but short-lived sitcom "Arrested Development." Today the company announced the release of 15 new episodes beginning May 26, 2013. In the reboot, original cast members including Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, and Portia de Rossi will reprise their roles as members of the... [SocialTimes.com]

3D Printing Filament Extruder Hits $130,000 at Kickstarter - Posted April 3, 2013
(3D Printing Industry) Filastruder met their Kickstarter target of $5,000 within one hour, hit nearly $50,000 two days after launching the campaign, and is increasing the funded amount every day. Filastruder is a filament extruder for 3D printing, which allows anyone to create their own filament at home. Cu... [3D Printing Insider]

UK Firm Creates Its Own 'Kickstarter PR Division' - Posted March 26, 2013
Here's an interesting piece of news via PR Week: UK firm Dynamo, whic... [PRNewser]

9-Year-Old Coder Triggers Kickstarter Avalanche - Posted March 22, 2013
Mackenzie Wilson, a 9 year-old straight-A student from Stevensville, Maryland, started a Kickstarter ... [SocialTimes.com]

9-Year-Old Coder Triggers Kickstarter Avalanche - Posted March 22, 2013
Mackenzie Wilson, a 9 year-old straight-A student from Stevensville, Maryland, started a Kickstarter ... [AllFacebook]

Gigabot is a Huge Consumer 3D Printer Awaiting Kickstarter Dollars - Posted March 22, 2013
(Engadget) The 3D printer Gigabot has a build envelope 30 times the volume of a standard consumer device of 24 x 24 x 24 inches. The Gigabot device is so big that it can support a full-sized laptop sitting atop an attached arm. The project is the brainchild of re:3D, an Austin-based... [3D Printing Insider]

IBM Sees 3D Printing Changing Manufacturing - Posted March 22, 2013
(Engineering.com) IBM's Paul Brody, the global industry leader for electronics at IBM, believes that three things are set to change the way products are designed and manufactured. In a keynote speech delivered at the Siemens PLM Innovation Conference, Brody acknowledged that open source electronics, in... [3D Printing Insider]

Filmmakers Seek Kickstarter Funding for 'Arrested Development' Movie - Posted March 21, 2013
In the wake of the Veronica Mars movie's dramatic success on Kickstarter last week, filmmakers are trying to raise $20,000 on the crowdfunding site to release an "A... [SocialTimes.com]

Affordable eyeCharm Adds Eye Tracking to Your Kinect - Posted March 18, 2013
(3Ders.org) Munich based NUIA 4titoo is offering its NUIA eyeCharm, a hardware add-on for Microsoft's Kinect, in both an assembled and 3D print-your-own version. The eyeCharm is a plug and play device that can be attached to any Kinect (Xbox 360 or Windows) and adds eye-tracking controls in under 10 minutes. ... [3D Printing Insider]

Arkami Reaches 235% of Kickstarter Goal and Announces Advisory Board - Posted March 14, 2013
Arkami , Inc. today announced new members to the Advisory Board (list below) to provide valuable perspective on the introduction of myIDkey , the industry's first biometric fingerprint, Bluetooth wireless / USB key. Building off the successful Kickstarter launch, the board brings strategic counsel to the executive team in the areas... [semanticweb.com]

Veronica Mars Film Raises Almost $2 Million in a Day on Kickstarter - Posted March 13, 2013
The cult girl-detective series Veronica Mars may come to the silver screen after years of talk but little studio action. Creator and writer Rob Thomas and actress Kristen Bell too the idea to ... [AllFacebook]

Donations pouring into Kickstarter to fund 'Veronica Mars' movie - Posted March 13, 2013
Update: It reached the $2 million goal in less than a day -- an all-time Kickstarter record. Earlier: Six years ago, the TV show Veronica Mars ended its run. Then today creator Rob Thomas -- along with Kristin Bell and cast -- ... [3D Printing Insider]

Wearable Computers Preview the Future at SxSW, With Social as 'a Key Ingredient' - Posted March 12, 2013
The South by Southwest tech festival may not be a great place for apps to break out anymore, but a couple of consumer hardware products have generated a lot of buzz and pre-orders at this year's event. Perhaps the single-most talked about product is ... [SocialTimes.com]

Kickstarter Project Launches to Fund Life-Size Selfie Machine - Posted March 4, 2013
German artist Susanna Kraus is hoping to raise more than $142,000 for a walk-in photo booth that will print life-size, black-and-white self-portraits in about 10 minutes. If you like taking selfies, this is for you. Much like a Polaroid camera or an old-fashioned photo booth, the machine makes one-of-... [SocialTimes.com]

3D Printing Pen Raises Over $1.8M in One Week on Kickstarter - Posted February 28, 2013
(WebProNews) The 3Doodler pen project began with a goal of raising $30,000 on Kickstarter but has gone on to raise $1.8M in one week. The masterminds behind the creation are Max Bogue and Peter Dilworth, who are in charge of research and development for WobbleWorks toys. They say they are astounded at... [3D Printing Insider]

Southern CA Linux Expo Features 3D Printing, Cloud Computing, Product Demos - Posted February 28, 2013
(The Daily Nexus) Kyle Rankin from Artemis Internet gave a keynote that covered the history of 3D printing and how it works with the open-source community to over two thousand Linux users, free software enthusiasts and nerds of all general descriptions who attended the 11th annual Southern California Linux Exp... [3D Printing Insider]

Kickstarter Campaign Raising Money For OS You Can Wear On Your Wrist - Posted February 27, 2013
StormFly is raising money on Kickstarter for an innovative new product that is best described as a PC you can wear on your wrist. An alternative to cloud computing, the creators of StormFly are calling their technology "Now Computing" and with four days to go in the campaign, StormFly has... [SocialTimes.com]

The Filabot Will Revolutionize Home 3D Printing Market - Posted February 26, 2013
(Guardian) The Filabot grinds down everyday plastic waste and recycles household scrap into 3D printing material. Everything from water pipes to drinks bottles, plastic wrappers and Lego bricks can be fed into the contraption - which grinds, melts and extrudes the plastic into a filament of either 3mm or 1.75mm diameters.... [3D Printing Insider]

Kickstarter Moves Further Into Social Sphere With Mobile App - Posted February 19, 2013
With its release last week of a mobile app for iOS, the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter edged a bit further into the social arena. The app facilitates browsing through projects, almost Pinterest-like, and makes the funding experie... [SocialTimes.com]

Can Fans Raise $31.4 Million on Kickstarter to Build A Real-Life Death Star? - Posted February 8, 2013
Foiled by the U.S. Government's refusal to build a real-life Death Star, "Star Wars" fans are attempting to raise 20,000,000, or $31,490,000, on Kickstarter for the cause. The moon-shaped spaceship and weapon of mass destruction fi... [SocialTimes.com]

GameStick Finishes Kickstarter Campaign at 648% of Funding Goal - Posted February 1, 2013
GameStick, a tiny gaming console that plugs into a television set, will hit the market in April after a month-long campaign on the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter. The owners of the casual games platform PlayJam have raised $647,658 for the console -- more than six times their $100,000 goal -- through the... [SocialTimes.com]

'Posthuman' Director on Fundraising Without A Crowdfunding Platform - Posted January 30, 2013
The creators of "Posthuman," a feature length indie teenage superhero film that is currently in production, have turned to the Internet to raise money to make the project happen. But instead of going the popular route of using a crowdfunding platform like Kickstarter or Indiegogo, t... [SocialTimes.com]

Bjork Takes to Kickstarter to Fund Educational Apps for Android and Windows - Posted January 29, 2013
Bj rk wants to make her Biophilia app, which provides educational multimedia experiences about science and sound, available on platforms in addition to iOS, and she has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the work. The Biophilia app also forms part of a larger the Biophilia Educational Program for schoolchildren, which is... [SocialTimes.com]

'For Journalism': News Developers Launch A Kickstarter To Raise Money To Teach Data Journalism For All - Posted January 28, 2013
A new Kickstarter campaign kicked off this weekend with a goal of raising $32,000 to create educational tools for the "next generation of news-application developers." If they reach their goal, these are the first eight courses they'll teach: Django... [TVSpy]

Kickstarter Adds Tags to Sort Campaigns - Posted January 25, 2013
Kickstarter has begun adding tags to help users sort through the 3,000-plus crowd-funding campaigns it hosts. The tags are assigned by Kickstarter, and serve partly to highlight trends in the type of work for which users seek funding. "Over time, we've... [SocialTimes.com]

How To Crowdfund Your Journalism Project - Posted January 22, 2013
Crowdfunding seems to be happening everywhere these days. From small art-projects to large scale hardware ventures, the Internet community is eager to send cash towards a cause they believe in, and it's a great way to fill in the financial gaps when pursuing an in-depth project on behalf of a publi... [TVSpy]

How To Crowdfund Your Journalism Project - Posted January 22, 2013
Crowdfunding seems to be happening everywhere these days. From small art-projects to large scale hardware ventures, the Internet community is eager to send cash towards a cause they believe in, and it's a great way to fill in the financial gaps when pursuing an in-depth project on behalf of a publi... [10,000 Words]

Social Media Newsfeed: Bing-Facebook Integration | Foursquare Map - Posted January 18, 2013
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GameStick Reaches $100,000 Kickstarter Funding Goal in 30 Hours - Posted January 4, 2013
In just 30 hours, the owners of the casual games platform PlayJam have successfully raised more than $100,000 on Kickstarter for the production of GameStick, a po... [SocialTimes.com]

Kickstarter Campaign Promises World's Most Portable TV Games Console - Posted January 2, 2013
Casual games network PlayJam has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 for the world's most portable TV games console. GameStick has been in development for a little over a year and is expec... [SocialTimes.com]

New Video Platform Asks How Far You'd Go To Raise Money For Charity - Posted December 21, 2012
Just how far would you go to raise money for charity (or for yourself)? Moolta, a video site that just launched today, lets users challenge their friends for charity or cash. Co-founder and CEO Noam Schwartz calls it "YouTube and Kickstarter's awesome love child." But with challenges like... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Newsfeed: Instagram Privacy | Apple-Foursquare Talks? - Posted December 19, 2012
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Environment-Themed Education Apps on Kickstarter - Posted December 11, 2012
Cultural anthropologist Michael Leifer and app designer Jory Prum, aka ecodads, hope to raise $20,000 on Kickstarter to fund the development of two educational... [AppNewser]

Pocket and Matter Announce Partnership - Posted December 4, 2012
The content saving platform Pocket (formerly Read It Later) has announced its first publisher partnership with Matter. Those who subscribe to the Kickstarter... [TVSpy]

Kickstarter Success Story Ouya Ships December 28 - Posted November 30, 2012
Ouya, the video game console-in-progress that earned more than $8.5 million on Kickstarter, will ship to lucky backers starting December 28. The small, inexpensive gaming unit built on the Android ... [AllFacebook]

Kickstarter Success Story Ouya Ships December 28 - Posted November 30, 2012
Ouya, the video game console-in-progress that earned more than $8.5 million on Kickstarter, will ship to lucky backers starting December 28. The small, inexpensive gaming unit built on the Android ... [SocialTimes.com]

Kickstarter to Host Workshops in London to Kickstart UK-Based Projects - Posted November 12, 2012
Kickstarter today announced two new workshops to teach artists, writers, and other creative people in the UK how to raise money for their projects in the cloud. The first workshop will be held on Friday, November 16 at the Barbican in London, which is the la... [SocialTimes.com]

Bring Facebook Photos To Life With Top Charms - Posted November 7, 2012
Facebook photos are a great way to connect with friends and loved ones, but they don't have to stay on your phone or computer. Through an interesting idea, Top Charms... [AllFacebook]

Games Have Exploded on Kickstarter, but Company Will Stick to Creative Projects - Posted November 5, 2012
Games have exploded on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter this year, increasing by 20-fold over last year, said CEO and co-founder Perry Chen. Games accounted for $3.5 million in funding in 2011 and have already driven roughly 20 times that in 2012, Chen told the au... [AllFacebook]

Would You Donate to a Kickstarter Campaign for an iOS-Controlled Drone? - Posted October 29, 2012
A manufacturer and design house called Dream Cheeky is attempting to raise $30,000 in 30 days for the iStrike Shuttle: a flying machine that's powered by your iOS device. Pardon the dr... [SocialTimes.com]

SoundCloud's 2012 Fellows: Where Are They Now? - Posted October 26, 2012
SoundCloud has just wrapped up its second annual Community Fellowship program, which this year offered support and guidance to 15 sound creators as they finished projects ranging from radio dramas to audio guidebooks. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Will Open-source Crowdfunding Help Sustain the Hardware Startup Boom? - Posted October 16, 2012
Jarred Sumner is just 16 years old, and he has launched two products this month: Lockitron, a gadget that lets users open doors with their mobile phones, and Selfstarter, an open-source alternative to Kickstarter. Kickstarter, which actively curates fundraising projects, declined to host Lockitron's pre... [SocialTimes.com]

Mark Zuckerberg No. 2 On 'Fortune' 40 Under 40 - Posted October 11, 2012
Facebook finished second to ... [AllFacebook]

UK to Get Kickstarter Crowdfunding This Month - Posted October 10, 2012
Britons will become the first non-Americans to gain access to funding through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter on October 31, the company said Wednesday. UK users can begin submitting their fundraising proposals now. Kickstarter offers all-or-nothing funding, in which a project specifies a minimum amount it must raise from contributors on the... [SocialTimes.com]

Amanda Palmer's Social Media Win Turns into PR Fail - Posted October 3, 2012
Ever heard of Amanda Palmer? The social media expert and former leader of the "punk cabaret" act Dresden Dolls invoked the wrath of the Internet after performing what we believe to be something of a brilliant act: turning a social media win into ... [PRNewser]

Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Image | Twitter Discover Tab | Tumblr Outage - Posted October 1, 2012
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Crowdfunding via Kickstarter: A New Kind of PR? - Posted September 20, 2012
Chances are you've heard the name Kickstarter, the fundraising startup that calls itself "the world's largest funding platform for creat... [PRNewser]

Digital Photo Frame Instacube Adds Facebook Support After Reaching $500K On Kickstarter - Posted September 11, 2012
There are a half-million reasons why photos from Face... [AllFacebook]

Social Media Newsfeed: GoDaddy | TechCrunch Disrupt | Assassination Tweet - Posted September 11, 2012
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Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa Breaks Records As Most-Funded Film In Kickstarter History - Posted September 10, 2012
"Can you imagine the unique world of Charlie Kaufman realized in stop motion without the influence of the Hollywood studio system? Just a true uncorrupted artistic endeavor?" Sounds pretty amazing, right? And thanks to a ... [SocialTimes.com]

D.C. Start-up 'Homicide Watch' Could Die Without More Funding - Posted September 5, 2012
D.C.-based Homicide Watch is one of the often pointed to examples of how a hyperlocal journalism start-up can plug coverage holes and make a difference, even in big cities with plenty of journalists already there. It covers murder in D.C. in a unique and ambitious way, from the ground up, which... [TVSpy]

Social Media Newsfeed: Zuckerberg's Shares | iPhone 5 | WordPress Liveblog - Posted September 5, 2012
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The Internet's Got Tesla Fever: New Kickstarter Campaign Aims To Tell Tesla's Life Story - Posted August 30, 2012
The Oatmeal has made headlines this summer with his Indiegogo campaign to buy back the old Wardenclyffe laboratory of Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, best known for his contributions to our modern day electrical system, and turn it into a museum. The campaign... [SocialTimes.com]

New Graduate Racks Up Job Offers With Kickstarter-Inspired Interactive Video Resume - Posted August 29, 2012
The job market is pretty tough these days, but recent Digital Media Communications grad Sander Saar is looking to stand out from the competition with a Kickstarter-inspired online video resume. Sander has launched an interactive online video campaign at hire.sandersaar.com, with ... [SocialTimes.com]

How Social Media Leads To Social Change [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted August 21, 2012
Did you know that almost three quarters (73 percent) of U.S. adults say that being involved in social change is personally important to them? The rapid advancement and growth of channels such as Twitter and Facebook has had a dramatic effect on our personal and professional l... [AllTwitter]

INFOGRAPHIC: Social Change Through Facebook, Other Social Networks - Posted August 20, 2012
How are organizations such as Kickstarter, DonorsChoose.org, Pencils of Promise, and ... [AllFacebook]

It Can Be Done: Penny Arcade Raises $500K on Kickstarter to Run Site Without Ads - Posted August 15, 2012
Penny Arcade, the webcomic devoted to all things video games, has raised $528,144 from 9,069 backers in order to remove all of the ads from its site for one year. In the introductory video, founders Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins said they needed cash for rent, employee salaries, and other things... [AllFacebook]

Taking It To The Tweets: Petition To Keep Twitter Ecosystem Open Up To More Than 500 Signatures, While App.Net With Its Twitter Alternative Service Surpasses Funding Goals - Posted August 15, 2012
This week saw a tweet from @bottlenoseapp that the petition to keep the Twitter ecosystem open has moved past the 500-signature goal. Bottlenose, the service co-founded by Nova Spivack, who created the petition and tweeted the same, uses natural language processing, semantic classification, sentiment analytics and trend detection to give users... [semanticweb.com]

Twitter Competitor App.net Reaches Funding Goal - Now What? - Posted August 13, 2012
So App.net has blasted straight through its $500k Kickstarter goal and is currently at $744 with eleven hours left. And this is making Dalton Caldwell, App.net's founder, the talk of Twitter. The look and feel of the Alpha site is very Twitterish an... [AllTwitter]

At $170,000+, '99% Invisible' Becomes Most Funded Kickstarter in Journalism - Posted August 12, 2012
2nd most funded in publishing. 1st in journalism. Thanks so much for being a part of it. You rule! twitter.com/romanmars/stat... -- Roman Mars (@romanmars) August 10, 2012 An update to ... [10,000 Words]

At $170,000+, '99% Invisible' Becomes Most Funded Kickstarter in Journalism - Posted August 12, 2012
2nd most funded in publishing. 1st in journalism. Thanks so much for being a part of it. You rule! twitter.com/romanmars/stat... -- Roman Mars (@romanmars) August 10, 2012 An update to ... [TVSpy]

Sequel In The Works For Viral Facebook App Take This Lollipop - Posted August 9, 2012
Facebook users took to Take This Lollipop, to... [AllFacebook]

Booya, OUYA! The First Kickstarter Game Console Raises $8.6M - Posted August 9, 2012
OUYA is a game console that's looking to compete with the big boys - Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft - by leveraging the Android to build an inexpensive set-top box. The company recently started soliciting crowd-funding on Kickstarter and after a surprising early run, they've wrapped up with a grand total of $8.6... [SocialTimes.com]

How a 'Tiny' Radio Show Raises Over $147,000 on Kickstarter - Posted August 6, 2012
The crew of the radio show and podcast 99% Invisible doesn't compare to that of Morning Edition, This American Life, or most popular public radio strongholds. It's only two people (a... [TVSpy]

How a 'Tiny' Radio Show Raises Over $147,000 on Kickstarter - Posted August 6, 2012
The crew of the radio show and podcast 99% Invisible doesn't compare to that of Morning Edition, This American Life, or most popular public radio strongholds. It's only two people (a... [10,000 Words]

VEVO to Put Music Videos on Kickstarter-Funded Video Game Console - Posted August 1, 2012
The video game console hasn't even finished its Kickstarter campaign, much less hit the market, but VEVO has already pledged its collection of music videos and original programming when OUYA finally launches in March 2013. With seven days left on the clock, the Los Angeles-based startup has already raised more than... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Newsfeed: Bus Monitor | Facebook Lobbying | Tumblr Book - Posted July 24, 2012
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Kickstarter Redesigns Project Pages After Learning They Account for 60 Percent of Page Views - Posted July 19, 2012
Kickstarter has helped thousands of people raise millions of dollars for their creative projects with a simple, one-page pitch. When the makers of the microfunding platform learned that 60 percent of its page views are on project pages, they decided it was time for an upgrade. On Thursday,... [SocialTimes.com]

75% Of Kickstarter Projects Don't Deliver On Time [Infographic] - Posted July 17, 2012
Last month we shared an infographic from Jeanne Pi of AppsBlogger that revealed that 40 percent of all Kickstarter projects fail. This week, Pi has published an addendum to last month's post,... [SocialTimes.com]

Android Game Console Launches Kickstarter Aiming for $950k in 30 Days; Reaches $2.6m in 48 hours - Posted July 11, 2012
The OUYA project is a new video game console project that is built on Android and will only cost $99. The spin on OUYA is that it lets game designers design games for a big TV while skipping the traditional console game makers' publishing routes - no more need to go... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Newsfeed: Best of Google I/O | iTunes Sharing | Twitter Digests - Posted June 28, 2012
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What Makes a Kickstarter Campaign Successful? Northwestern Students Launch One to Find Out - Posted June 27, 2012
Students at Northwestern University have turned to Kickstarter to raise $8,000 to publish their research project on the power of crowdfunding. For the past year, members of the school's Creative Action Lab have been studying the effects of social media fundraising... [SocialTimes.com]

Former Good Staffers Launch Kickstarter for New Mag - Posted June 25, 2012
Earlier this month, 8 suddenly unemployed members of the Good editorial team announced they were collaborating to create a single issue magazine called Tomorrow. Today the Los Angeles-based group launched a fundraising effort on Kickstarter for the project, and they've already raised over two thirds of their $15,000 goal. Beyond the opportunity... [FishbowlLA]

Social Media and the Arts [Podcast] - Posted June 22, 2012
On today's Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), GalleyCat editor Jason Boog and I talked about some new ways that social media affects the world of art on sites like Kickstarter and Pinterest. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Kickstarter Adds a Stats Page - Posted June 22, 2012
Every day, Kickstarter runs thousands of miniature fundraisers for creative projects. Some will earn enough money from donors to go into production, while others quietly disappear when the time runs out. Every so often an artist will come along who strikes fundraising gold, raising hundreds of thousands - or even... [SocialTimes.com]

Thunderclap Migrating From Twitter To Facebook - Posted June 21, 2012
Thunderclap, a mass-messaging service that gained popularity on Twitter, has set it... [AllFacebook]

Pinterest Makes It Easier to Pin From Etsy, Kickstarter, 500px, SlideShare, and SoundCloud - Posted June 21, 2012
Pinterest has been working on partnering with other creative communities to make sharing on the pinboard more inclusive and less of a copyright hazard. On Wednesday, the visual pinboard turned up the volume and set up shop for Etsy, Kickstarter, 500px, Slideshare, and SoundCloud. Now, when users pin something from any of... [SocialTimes.com]

Court: Failing Student Over Facebook Post OK | LinkedIn Sued for $5M | Tumblr Releases New iOS App - Posted June 21, 2012
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Over 40 Percent Of All Kickstarter Projects Fail - Posted June 13, 2012
We've all seen tons of successful Kickstarter projects raise thousands upon thousands of dollars, but what about the Kickstarter projects that don't make their funding goals? Apparently failed Kickstarter projects are far more prevalent than you may think! A new ... [SocialTimes.com]

Shareholders Sue Facebook | Disqus Adds New Features | Oracle Acquires Vitrue - Posted May 24, 2012
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Kickstarter Bug Exposes Private Project Info to Public - Posted May 14, 2012
On Friday, a Kickstarter engineer discovered a small bug in Kickstarter's private API. The bug allowed a user's private project data to be accessed via the API. No financial data was compromised, but users with private projects may have had some of their information leaked. Kickstarter reports that... [SocialTimes.com]

Kickstarter Scammer Almost Gets Away With It - Posted May 1, 2012
The power of social was once limited to web traffic and wall posts, but as services like Kickstarter and Groupon prove, the social web also empowers business. But where money trades hands, you can be sure that scammers aren't far behind. A recent scam on Kickstarter is getting a... [SocialTimes.com]

TFF 2012: Kickstarter's Elisabeth Holm Explains How to Fund a Film on Kickstarter - Posted April 24, 2012
NEW YORK, NY - Today an enthusiastic crowd of indie filmmakers and media professionals gathered at 92Y Tribeca for the Tribeca Film Festival's Future of Film lunch series. Kickstarter's Elisabeth Holm s... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook's IPv6 Preparation | Skype For Xbox | YouTube's Copyright Case - Posted April 23, 2012
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The Pebble Smartwatch Raises $5M -- Biggest Kickstarter Ever - Posted April 19, 2012
Kickstarter has been making some pretty serious waves lately. After legendary game designer Tim Schaeffer and his Double Fine game team raised $3.4m, we've seen the company launch all sorts of ... [AllFacebook]

Zuckerberg's Solo Instagram Deal | Spotify's Coca-Cola Partnership | Tumblr's New Ads - Posted April 19, 2012
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YouTube Starts Letting Creators Link Videos To Indiegogo & Kickstarter Fundraising Pages - Posted April 18, 2012
It just became a whole lot easier for YouTube creators to raise funds for Kickstarter and Indigogo projects via YouTube. Yesterday YouTube ... [SocialTimes.com]

Help Kickstart A Documentary About The YouTube Community - Posted April 16, 2012
Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a YouTube Partner is like? YouTuber Dan Dobi is working on a documentary about the YouTube community called 'Please Subscribe' and he has launched a ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Redesign | Apple's eBook Lawsuit | Spotify's Web Button - Posted April 12, 2012
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Word to Semantic Web Startups: The JOBS Act Is On - Posted March 28, 2012
If there's one thing the Semantic Web arena is full of, it is start-ups. In fact, the slew of creative and innovative ideas out there coming from young companies is one of the reasons for the first Start-Up Competition to be held at the Semantic Tech & Business... [semanticweb.com]

How To Use Social Media To Support Yourself As an Artist - Posted March 6, 2012
If artists are still starving in the digital age, they're not trying hard enough. At DIY Days on Saturday, March 3, filmmakers, writers, performers, hackers, and other artists from 12 countries and 20 states gathered at The New School in New York City to brainstorm ideas on how to ach... [SocialTimes.com]

KickStumbler Combines KickStarter and StumbleUpon - Posted February 23, 2012
In the last few months we have witnessed a big change in the way that independent projects are funded on the web, and I believe we'll see a lot more from this space in the future. One such example is a quick mash-up called "KickStumbler" which brings Kickstarter together with... [SocialTimes.com]

MATTER: Returning to Long-Form Journalism - Posted February 23, 2012
Earlier this month, I talked about three enterprising Kickstarter campaigns -- Outer Voices Podcast, Radio Ambulante, and The Independent Voice Project. Recently, another great journalism-focused project has started making news, and it's called ... [TVSpy]

Kickstarter Achieves 3rd Million Dollar Project - Posted February 21, 2012
Kickstarter is the place for independent filmmakers/comic book writers/sculptors/etc to raise money for their ventures. The site lets anybody log on, find a project they like, and donate any given amount. If the donor give certain amounts, the content creators reward that person with a special item; a limited... [SocialTimes.com]

3 More Enterprising Journalism Kickstarter Campaigns - Posted February 9, 2012
Kickstarter has emerged as the go-to platform for crowdfunding online. In 2011, they received nearly $100 million in pledges and over a million backers. With these numbers, crowdfunding through Kickstarter can be a great way to raise awareness about your project and build momentum around your cause. Here are a just few... [10,000 Words]

How to Make an Awesome Kickstarter Project - 3 Great Examples - Posted January 10, 2012
Kickstarter is an incredible micro-funding site for artists, writers, musicians and even inventors. With an easy-to-use platform and good-looking widgets, it's easy to spread the word about your project across your social media sites. But when it comes to projects that need tens of thousands of dollars or more... [SocialTimes.com]

Elevator Pitch: Kogeto Brings 360 Video to iPhone - Posted December 15, 2011
In the latest episode of "Elevator Pitch," host Alan Meckler talks with ... [MediaJobsDaily]

Elevator Pitch: Kogeto Brings 360 Video to iPhone - Posted December 15, 2011
In the latest episode of "Elevator Pitch," host Alan Meckler talks with ... [FishbowlDC]

Elevator Pitch: Kogeto Brings 360 Video to iPhone - Posted December 15, 2011
In the latest episode of "Elevator Pitch," host Alan Meckler talks with ... [PRNewser]

Elevator Pitch: Kogeto Brings 360 Video to iPhone - Posted December 15, 2011
In the latest episode of Elevator Pitch, host Alan Meckler talks with ... [FishbowlLA]

Newsmotion Takes A New Approach To 'Civic Journalism' - Posted December 9, 2011
Newsmotion is a startup journalism project that seeks to give voice to important international stories, but do so in an artistic, narrative way. In this new model of "civic media," the organization wants to communicate stories in a way that connects people around issues and gives a voice to the voiceless,... [10,000 Words]

New Videogame Promises to Value Your Time - Posted November 28, 2011
Most game designers pitch their work by describing how immersive their experience is, how it will suck a player in and joyfully consume their free time. Not Dinofarm Games, the creator of this week's featured Kickstarter project: Auro: The Golden Prince. Dinofarm is best known for their last release, 100 Rogues --... [SocialTimes.com]

Refined Product Brings Farming to the Urban Apartment - Posted November 21, 2011
Urban farming is catching on as more and more people are getting interested in DIY projects and locally-grown food, but it still remains something of a niche that is held back from wider popularity by interested parties living in climates with harsh winters or, say, a lack of space. Windowfarms, this... [SocialTimes.com]

New Doc Chronicles, Promotes Videogame Culture - Posted November 10, 2011
Beyond the Game, despite sharing a name with a 2008 documentary about videogame culture, is a brand new film about, well, videogame culture. No, no, no! Don't go just yet! This is a different project with a much different focus -- and one with a current Kickstarter campaign deserving some attention... [SocialTimes.com]

"BlindSide" Takes the 'Video' out of Videogames - Posted October 20, 2011
A whole lot of what we talk about when we talk about videogames has to do with how they look. With everyone hyping the cutting-edge graphics of big releases and the bulk of indies relying on unique art styles to set themselves apart, it's pretty easy to think of playing games... [SocialTimes.com]

"Mongolian Bling" Doc: Mongolian Hip-Hop Exists, Is Awesome - Posted October 14, 2011
You can be forgiven if you weren't aware of Mongolian hip-hop until you just read this sentence; I wasn't until happening upon a Kickstarter project intending to capture the rising genre through a feature-length documentary. It probably shouldn't be surprising to see how fully-formed and unique Mongolia's hip-hop sce... [SocialTimes.com]

PaySwarm - Give Someone $0.02 for Their Two Cents (Part I) - Posted October 11, 2011
Manu Sporny, Founder/CEO of Digital Bazaar, Inc., sat down with SemanticWeb.com to discuss Payswarm, a new standard that he is working on through a W3C Community Group. This article is Part 1 of 2.   ... [AllTwitter]

"Crystal Catacombs" Brings Players Back to (Old) School - Posted October 7, 2011
Some of the most exciting projects in videogames these days are from extremely driven and talented amateur developers. For all of the bombast and spectacle of modern, big-budget games, the most interesting work is usually being done by small teams. This week's featured Kickstarter project, Crystal Catacombs, shows just ... [SocialTimes.com]

3 Enterprising Journalism Kickstarter Campaigns - Posted September 29, 2011
For independent journalists, raising funding to pursue your stories can be difficult. Crowdfunding through Kickstarter can be a great way to raise awareness about your project and build momentum around your cause. Currently, Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world and has helped users raise over $40... [TVSpy]

Poe Comes to Life with "Riddle of the Black Cat" - Posted September 8, 2011
Hallowe'en is still almost two months away but Riddle of the Black Cat, a Kickstarter-backed short film based on a classic Edgar Allan Poe tale, is bringing the spook a little bit early this fall. Rather than simply look to the famous American writer for tonal inspiration (like, say, nearly every... [SocialTimes.com]

Last Call for "Art Wars" Indie Game Funding - Posted September 1, 2011
The story is a common one: an idealist artist moves to a major urban center (say, New York City) where they expect to be discovered but then must walk the shakey tightrope of balancing their financial and artistic ambitions. This is a tale that's been well tread in film and literature... [SocialTimes.com]

Zombies Weren't Passe in the 1940s: Support FUBAR Comics - Posted August 12, 2011
We're fast approaching the point of complete zombie media saturation but, when a fun enough idea featuring the walking dead comes along, I suppose it evidences that there's still a bit of mileage left in the genre. FUBAR, an anthology of zombie comics set within the framework of the latter half... [SocialTimes.com]

At Long Last, Metal and Mariachi Become One - Posted August 4, 2011
Sometimes something will come along that you've always been waiting for without even knowing how much you wanted it. This is the case with Metalachi, a Los Angeles based group that takes two great flavours -- metal and mariachi music -- and swirls them together into the sonic equivalent of a... [SocialTimes.com]

Help Fund iPad Craziness with 'Robots Love Ice Cream - Posted August 1, 2011
Ice cream and robots are two great tastes that, not unlike orange juice and mint julips, aren't expected to go well together. Addo Games' Burton and Becca Posey are reconfiguring our expections however, working hard on an iPad/iPad2 game that (at last!) combines sentient technology with dairy-based treats. Robots Love Ice Cream... [SocialTimes.com]

Longshot Magazine Announces "Debt" Theme, 48 Hours Remain -- And A Chance At $2,000 - Posted July 29, 2011
Today a noon Pacific time, the crew at Longshot Magazine in NYC announced the theme for this issue -- debt! From their announcement: Yes, we know Washington politicians are also staying up all weekend, debating this... [TVSpy]

BIG MONEY: Social Media and Consumer Web Dominate SecondMarket Action - Posted July 27, 2011
Where is all the money going? Well, it's easy to find out on SecondMarket these days. The New York-based marketplace for private company stock has just released its second-quarter/first-half results. To check out the infographics from the SecondMarket report, take a look at the slideshow immediately below. Then, dig deeper into... [SocialTimes.com]

Help Record the World in Comic Form with 'Circumnavigate' - Posted July 25, 2011
Mad leine Flores understands that the problem with Magellan, Drake, Raleigh, Polo and other famous explorers is that they failed to record their discoveries as comics. And so, to fix this issue, the intrepid cartoonist is setting out on her own to travel the globe and sketch out what she finds... [SocialTimes.com]

The Digital Age and the Space Age Combine with Orbit(Film) - Posted July 8, 2011
Let's stop being so egotistical about Earth for a second. I mean, sure, we all enjoy living on the planet best capable of sustaining carbon-based life forms and, yeah, our ecosystem is varied and beautiful, providing us with aesthetic wonder and myriad, incredible species to admire but -- do we ever... [SocialTimes.com]

How You Can Get Involved With Longshot Magazine - Posted July 5, 2011
The dynamic trio and their team of volunteer editors, sketch artists, photographers, writers, reporters and poets are at it again -- the 48-hour, user-generated Longshot Magazine will be produced... [TVSpy]

How You Can Get Involved With Longshot Magazine - Posted July 5, 2011
The dynamic trio and their team of volunteer editors, sketch artists, photographers, writers, reporters and poets are at it again -- the 48-hour, user-generated Longshot Magazine will be produced... [10,000 Words]

'Safe Zone' Indie Game Mixes Oregon Trail with Zombie Apocalypse - Posted June 17, 2011
There isn't much time left before we reach the point of total zombie saturation. Maybe, just maybe though, you'll be able to find room in your heart for at least one more undead centered romp with this week's featured Kickstarter project, Safe Zone. Blind Eye Games, the small New York City indie... [SocialTimes.com]

Rethink Rooftops with Urban Farm Project - Posted June 10, 2011
When we think of cities we usually picture concrete and steel -- not exactly the kind of environment where anyone expects nature to find a place. This duo behind this week's featured Kickstarter project, Seeing Green: The Value of Urban Farms, want to change our expectations about... [SocialTimes.com]

Kickstarter Project Aims to Bring Fashion Shows to the Masses - Posted June 7, 2011
LES Runway is not just bringing fashion shows to the wide open downtown NYC population. It's also turning to the masses on the Internet to help bring the project to life. Cheryl Maleh and Grand Opening have turned to Kickstarter to launch LES Runway in September.Kickstarter is already a popular site for... [PRNewser]

A 21st Century Odyssey: "My Quest for Yummy Banh Mi" - Posted May 27, 2011
When I was in high school a friend of mine introduced me to one block of our city -- the extremely little Little Vietnam -- that redefined how we spent our lunchtime. While everyone else was off huffing McDonalds we were sampling what was, in that time and place, a little... [SocialTimes.com]

Sponsor Homemade Horror with Nyctophobia 2011 - Posted April 29, 2011
One of the simple pleasures in life is the homemade haunted house -- the ordinary building that is lovingly converted to a seasonal place of terror. Eric Striffler, the man behind the Nyctophobia 2011 Kickstarter project, would agree with me when I say that, without committ... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Movies: A Match Made in Hollywood - Posted April 25, 2011
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Kickstarter and Sundance to Help Films Get Funded - Posted January 27, 2011
Kickstarter, the startup that helps projects find funding through crowd sourcing, has hooked up with the Sundance Institute to help fund independent film projects. Many indie... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

How To Use Kickstarter to Fund Your Publishing Project - Posted December 9, 2010
Today we are proud to announce a brand new feature on GalleyCat: Kickstarter Publishing Project of the Week. Our first pick is the Black Wave Project by Mediabistro Start... [GalleyCat]

Donate to a Kickstarter Project in New York, Get an Hour with a Silicon Valley VC - Posted October 27, 2010
It's hard to explain how Kickstarter works as a micr0-funding site. ... [Fishbowl NY]

Donate to a Kickstarter Project in New York, Get an Hour with a Silicon Valley VC - Posted October 27, 2010
It's hard to explain how Kickstarter works as a micr0-funding site. ... [FishbowlNY]