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Elaine Leung

Flappy Bird's swift nosedive serves to illustrate the dangers of participatory online c... - 0 views

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    We all learn that virility has its positives and negatives on the internet. This article illustrates how an overnight sensation, Flappy Bird, caused the creator great turmoil. The untimely popularity ultimately caused the creator to remove the popular game.
Stanislav Gamar

POWER TO THE PIXEL « Crowdsourcing: Using Audiences to Bankroll Projects - 0 views

  • Now, with online tools that enable direct connections, filmmakers can reach out to their fans for support in the early stages of project development
  • crowdsourcing is a collaborative way to overcome barriers in the filmmaking process
  • lacking financial resources
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  • One of the first and most well known filmmakers to use crowdsourcing is Robert Greenwald
    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      While crowdsourcing is all the rage this days, ranging anywhere from film making (seeking funding on pirate websites) to video game funding, yet not so long ago crowdsourcing was a new concept. This article is one of more early examples of such funding in its infancy.  Article dates from 2009. Please note that such examples that are covered in this article geared towards financing funding as opposed to innovation and idea funding. In first article out of five we will look at early stages, in following article climax of financial/social success will be covered with ultimately looking on last two articles how such crowdsourcing ideas have failed and succeeded.
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