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Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change This post is a guest blog by Josef Davies-Coates and it originally appeared on the P2P Foundation blog. Crowdfunding is a new word for an old idea. The Oxford English dictionary defines it as “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet”. Crowdfunding’s poster child, Kickstarter, launched in April 2009. But Kickstrater is now just one of over 450 crowdfunding platforms worldwide. Source: Crowdfunding Industry Report So, crowdfunding is big and growing fast. An example of particular interest to P2P Foundation readers might be the story of how Jonas Salk created the very first polio vaccine in the 1950s; it is was crowdfunded and patent-free. More recently, crowdfunding has been used with great success to finance political action. Inspired to take action? Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change web | twitter | facebook | github web | wiki | twitter | facebook | github web | facebook web web

Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright, but are based upon it. The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred[3] with the support of Center for the Public Domain. Aim and influence[edit] Creative Commons Japan Seminar, Tokyo (2007) A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. Dr.

Groupon Clone, Groupon Script, GroupoPro Script - Best PHP MySQL based daily deals business script What People Want (and How to Predict It) Companies now have unprecedented access to data and sophisticated technology that can inform decisions as never before. How successful are they at helping forecast what customers want to watch, listen to and buy? The Year 2007 was a terrible year for many big movie stars. One major exception was Will Smith, whose film “I Am Legend” set a box-office record for a movie opening in December, taking in $77 million. In 2008, Smith’s star vehicle “Hancock” grossed more than $625 million worldwide despite poor critical reviews. Smith’s success was not all that surprising, however: With the exception of the Harry Potter movies, those in which Smith star have higher opening weekends and average box-office receipts than movies with any other male lead.1 Does Smith know something that Jim Carrey and others do not? The leading question Methods for predicting what consumers want have been around for decades. Findings

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POST statuses/filter Returns public statuses that match one or more filter predicates. Multiple parameters may be specified which allows most clients to use a single connection to the Streaming API. Both GET and POST requests are supported, but GET requests with too many parameters may cause the request to be rejected for excessive URL length. Use a POST request to avoid long URLs. The default access level allows up to 400 track keywords, 5,000 follow userids and 25 0.1-360 degree location boxes. Resource URL Parameters *Note: At least one predicate parameter (follow, locations, or track) must be specified. follow see note* A comma separated list of user IDs, indicating the users to return statuses for in the stream.

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Platinum Blue Music Intelligence Music Xray is a music tech company based in New York City. The company's official name is Platinum Blue Music Intelligence Inc but it began operating under the name Music Xray in July 2009. The company is billed as "an online platform where artists submit their songs to industry professionals". Its technology, quant metrics, and predictive analytics help industry talent hunters, songwriters and performers find each other. The tech tools allow good songs to bubble up to the top, as measured by what the industry executives tend to prefer.[1] Musicians pay a fee to submit their music to industry professionals, often more than $10, in exchange for a guaranteed listen and response. Some professionals offer in-depth critiques. Music Xray's list of claimed success stories is found on their site.[2] References[edit] External links[edit]

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