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 ...
Veronica Mars Creator Rob Thomas Defends Kickstarter Decision
on 3.18.13
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 ...
Veronica Mars Returns: Kickstarter Raises $2 Million for New Film in One Day
on 3.13.13
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 fans ...
Kickstarted Film Wins Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
on 2.26.13
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 Documentary (Short Subject). ...
Kickstarter Releases Mobile App on iOS
on 2.14.13
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 ...
Kickstarter Adds Hashtags to Enhance Discovery
on 1.25.13
Kickstarter on Friday announced a small new feature that the company hopes will make it easier to discover projects to back: hashtags. The new way of breaking up submissions was added after the team noticed certain themes and trends running anywhere for a week to several years. Kickstarter already has categories, but tags ...
Sundance, Oscars Prove Kickstarter Funds Great Movies, Too
on 1.21.13
It is Sundance time in America. And what that means it is time to stand up and take note of Kickstarter for the role it is playing in the development of an independent creative movement. In the film and video category alone, New York-based Kickstarter’s impact is notable. On its website, it notes: "In the past 3 years, ...
A ‘Kickstarter Darling’ and CES: How Pebble Defied the Odds
on 1.14.13
If you can raise $6 million on Kickstarter, chances are good that your idea may go somewhere. Which is exactly what happened to the maker of a Bluetooth watch that showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. I wrote about the Pebble watch halfway through last year—right after the startup earned an outrageous ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Be On the Lookout For New
on 1.6.13
This is the week where in TV land, 2013 gets into high gear. The annual International CES happens in Las Vegas, with more than 150,000 people expected, while TV critics across the country travel to Los Angeles for their annual winter meet with programmers. As this pair of events gets underway, here's a collection of ...
Kickstarter’s First Hot 2013 Project: Android ‘Console-on-a-Stick’
on 1.3.13
We didn’t have to wait very long to discover what 2013's first big Kickstarter project would be. Via Ars Technica, we give you the GameStick, an Android-based two-inch long stick that plugs directly into a controller and acts as a highly portable gaming console. The GameStick team says that their goal with the new ...
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