Big Hollywood has no business being on Kickstarter, says Hollywood insider
Zach Braff is raising money for his next movie on Kickstarter. That’s wrong, argues writer, producer and director Ken Levine. Read more »
Planet Money and Kickstarter: Is web-based crowdfunding the future of public media?
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When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach — and it showed how much crowdfunding has in common with public media. Read more »
Veronica Mars movie hits $2M Kickstarter goal in 10 hours
Veronica Mars is coming back, thanks to Kickstarter: A crowdsourced fundraising campaign to make a Veronica Mars movie has hit its $2 million goal in just 10 hours. Read more »
Cyberbullying doesn’t stop creator from challenging gender stereotypes in video games
Last summer, one woman’s Kickstarter project made her the target of a hate campaign — but the cybermob didn’t keep her from creating an original web series on female characters in gaming, which launched this week. Read more »
Vimeo creates new tools to support and pay video makers
Vimeo which recently broke into the top ten web video web destinations list, is giving video makers new ways of monetization. It is offering two new tools and has plans for others at it helps its indie creators grow. Read more »
Ebook site Unglue.it hits bump after Amazon ends crowdfunding payment support
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A company that aims to release ebooks into the Creative Commons through crowdfunding has had to halt operations after Amazon Payments withdrew support for crowdfunding payments. Kickstarter, which also uses Amazon Payments, remains unaffected for now. Read more »
Could Kickstarter be used to crowdfund journalism?
A journalist from Michigan has raised funding through Kickstarter for a project that will see him travel across the U.S. interviewing people about the election. Could that be an alternative model for financing investigative or in-depth reporting by journalists as newspapers continue to cut back? Read more at GigaOM »
Can a publisher use crowdfunding to replace ads?
Penny Arcade, a webcomic publisher and event producer, is trying to use Kickstarter to finance its web operations for a year so it can replace traditional banner advertising with a reader-centric model. Could traditional publishers learn something from this crowdfunding experiment? Read more at GigaOM »
Soviets, swords, comics and booze: Some crowdfunded projects to check out
Crowdfunding isn’t just a way for big names to raise cash directly from their fans. Here are some samples of the lower profile projects currently seeking funds on the Kickstarter scene, including a video game/fiction hybrid, a documentary about Calvin & Hobbes and a Soviet satire. Read more »
Why Louis CK and Amanda Palmer are the future of content
Comedian Louis CK, who made $1 million selling downloads of a show through his website, has sold $4.5-million in tickets to a new tour in 48 hours. He and musician Amanda Palmer show that for content creators, building a community is more important than ever. Read more at GigaOM »
Kickstarter by the numbers: New stats page gives daily updates
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is pulling back the curtain on the data behind the site. The New York-based startup announced today that it has launched Kickstarter Stats, a page tracking the progress of all of the projects on the site, updated daily and sorted by category. Read more at GigaOM »
Pinterest adds support for Slideshare, Etsy, Kickstarter, Soundcloud
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Image-sharing site Pinterest will now automatically attribute content pinned from 500px, Kickstarter, SlideShare and SoundCloud. Read more at GigaOM »
Seth Godin’s Kickstarter campaign for new book beats $40k goal in 3.5 hours
This morning at 5:05 AM ET, Seth Godin launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $40,000 for his upcoming book “The Icarus Deception.” The goal was to raise the money in a month, but the campaign beat it in three and a half hours. Read more »
Kickstarted: my conversation with Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen
Kickstarter is not just a startup– it’s part of an important shift away from the industrial manufacturing era & toward the maker economy. In this wide-ranging interview, founder Perry Chen talks about how society is reaching a new ‘bursting point of creativity,’ & where Kickstarter goes from here. Read more at GigaOM »
The Carr-Benkler wager and the peer-powered economy
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Is the web run by large corporations, or is it powered primarily by peer-to-peer networks? That’s the question behind one of the longest-running wagers of the modern web era — a six-year-old bet between author and web sceptic Nick Carr and Harvard professor Yochai Benkler. Read more at GigaOM »
46 Percent Of Kickstarter Projects Successfully Funded In 2011
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Online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter raised just shy of $100 million in pledges in 2011, and successfully funded nearly 12,000 projects,… Read more »
Updated: Kickstarter’s Patent Battle Over Crowd-Funding
The startup Kickstarter is suing to stop what it says is a shakedown by a former musician from the band Journey. The musician has obtained a… Read more »
Bleacher Report Raises $22 Million, Aims For New Verticals
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Sports media site Bleacher Report has been on a big publicity push this week and now it’s clear why: The company announced today that it’s r… Read more »
