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film studio Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises, the media company behind the Tribeca Film Festival, announced today they are teaming up on a new, subscription-based video-streaming platform. The service will be known as Tribeca Short List and is slated to launch sometime during the first half of 2015. You can expect a "prestigious selection" of movie content from Lionsgate, which will be curated by Tribeca with help from "leading voices in contemporary culture.

Demand Media, a digital content firm that owns eHow and Cracked.com, has announced its acquisition of Creativebug today, a website for instructional videos on various arts and crafts. Part of effort to expand within e-learning category

Nice recos for content publishers

But at Tumblr, at least, there's something else very interesting going on: according to Karp, there are 9 curators for every creator on his site. Reblogging, on Tumblr, is so easy that the vast majority of Tumblr sites actually create little or no original content: they just republish content from other people. That's a wonderful thing, for two reasons. Firstly, it takes people who are shy about (or just not very good at) creating their own content, and gives them a great way to express themselves online. (As Arianna Huffington says, "self-expression is the new entertainment".) And secondly, it acts as a natural amplifier for the people who do create original content - the average post on Tumblr gets reblogged nine times, and therefore reaches vastly more people than if it just sat on its original site waiting to be discovered by people visiting it directly.

But in building explicitly for creators, a widespread network of creators, curators and content consumers was born. Today, Tumblr powers nearly 42 million blog sites and is responsible for the creation of more than 16 billion posts.

platform that facilitates creation of mobile apps using the power of crowds to first improve then fund the apps. they receive a share in apps revenue.

a few look very similar to Pinterest...

consumers help design a store's collection. most voted items will go into production 

"A reliance on inelasticity is also a surefire way to be disrupted."

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