Kickstarter

Indiegogo seems to always play second fiddle to Kickstarter, despite the fact that it was on the crowdfund scene first, and now someone’s done the math to figure out exactly how the two compare. Freelancers working in the crowdfunding space Jonathan Lau and Edward Junprung scraped Indiegogo’s website to derive comparable numbers to those Kickstarter Continue Reading →

The crowdfunding campaign for the Kreyos smartwatch project has passed $1 million in support, proving once again that backers love them wearables. Kreyos is still at a fraction of the $10 million of support that Pebble raised last year, but it has managed to raise 10 times the amount it was asking for on IndieGogo. Continue Reading →

Fitness-tracking devices by companies including Fitbit, Nike and Jawbone are being used by a growing number of humans. Now their dogs can get in on the action too with a device called FitBark. Pitched as “the world’s tiniest wireless activity tracker for dogs”, FitBark is a tiny device designed to be attached to a dog’s Continue Reading →

One of my favorite new trends over the past few years has been crowd-funding. At its best, crowd-funding – and sites like Kickstarter – help gather passionate fans (with a bit of spare change) to create something that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. I love the idea of that. As a fan of tons of TV Continue Reading →

Crowdsourcing site Kickstarter on Tuesday revealed it has hit a new milestone: over 100,000 launched projects. The company founded just over four years ago in 2009 also noted that of those, 43.96 percent have been funded successfully. Not bad for such a young service. Kickstarter users have so far pledged $630 million, of which $535 Continue Reading →

Finally, some good news concerning females in technology. In the same week that people lost their minds over the Donglegate and upon learning that a woman is behind the popular Facebook page “I F*cking Love Science,” the Internet redeemed itself somewhat after throwing its collective support behind a Kickstarter campaign that’ll help a 9-year-old girl Continue Reading →

Last week, Internet Superhighway history was made when a movie based on a short-lived cult TV series that ended six years ago–no, not The Two Coreys–raised an unprecedented $2 million in less than 12 hours. The Kickstarter campaign for Veronica Mars–the CW series starring a then-nearly unknown Kristen Bell as a high school student by Continue Reading →

Nearly six years after it was cruelly ripped from our hearts by its untimely cancellation, Veronica Mars will live again. After years of on-again, off-again plans to revive the cult detective drama for the big screen, creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell decided to take the matter into their own hands and ask the Continue Reading →

For the first time ever, a Kickstarter-funded film has won an Oscar. How’s that for the power of the Internet and crowdfunding? Inocente — the story of a 15-year old girl from California who refuses to give up her dream of being an artist — brought home a gold statue on Sunday night for Best Continue Reading →

Kickstarter is expanding its crowdfunding reach by launching a mobile app. It’s for iOS devices, and it lets users catch up on projects they’ve already invested in and find new projects to back. Those with existing Kickstarter projects can also use the app to manage their pages, including uploading status report videos. The redesign of Continue Reading →