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Revenge of the gamers: an epic win for the world
December 7, 2010… about irritating trivia like “school work”, “doing your chores”, and the so called “real world” waiting outside the damn door.
Now, at last, game designer and researcher Jane McGonigal has finally given me the argument I so desperately needed as a child (given I started with a Commodore 16 at age five, it’s been a long wait). Playing games can now help to save the real world.
Massive, multiplayer and misunderstood
Jane McGonigal argues that, far from the stereotype of …
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commodore 16, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, game designer, jane mcgonigal, massive multiplayer, playing games, space invaders, superstruct, virtual worlds, world of wacraft, wow | 6 CommentsTrillion Fund: where normal people can invest (and save the world)
July 5, 2012… huge potential this has for not just the crowdfunding industry and startups, but the investment world as a whole.
One platform that is planning to take advantage of these new laws (the UK is set to follow the US later this year) is Trillion Fund. Trillion Fund’s modest goal is to eventually raise a trillion dollars for sustainable energy projects. Just as ambitious is the fund’s goal of raising it in small increments from people looking to invest modest amounts of money.
Trillion …
Could equity based crowdfunding pay for your retirement (and save the world)?
June 27, 2012… greater returns – assuming you don’t lose it altogether. Managed investment funds promise the world, but seem to specialize more in hidden fees than delivering returns.
Crowdfunding a new era
As you will have guessed by now, the alternative we are coming to is crowdfunding.
Crowdfunding is a big deal: globally the 450 or so crowdfunding platforms raised $1.5bn last year. This figure that is expected to double in 2012.
So far most of this funding has been in return for rewards …
From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012Every country in the world has probably benefited in some way from the unprecedented access to knowledge and services brought about by the digital revolution. But producing the knowledge banks and services has so far been a predominately rich-country business. The world’s poorest countries have generally not been able to participate in the production side of the digital economy and share in its rewards. This is …
Bank, crowd, crowdsourcing, eBay, Facebook, Funding Circle, Loan, microtask, microwork, Person-to-person lending, RateSetter | Leave a commentThe Great War Archive: could crowd conscription help?
January 9, 2012… a good time to talk about something that few, if anyone, will ever be able to remember again: the First World War (one of the last surviving veterans, Englishman Claude Choules, died recently, aged 110). So yes, this is our nostalgic post.
Of course, thanks to the wonders of the written word, thousands of first-hand accounts of the war will outlive those who wrote them. Yet, as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of fighting, many of these records themselves are at risk of being lost. …
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