Popular US-based crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, has made its funding stats available on its website, and the results show just how far a good idea and a strong web-community can take a project. The mission of Kickstarter to “bring creative projects to life” is certainly being accomplished if the stats are anything to go by, and […]
Indiegogo Preparing for Equity Crowdfunding
Investing in return for an equity stake in the company is a particular avenue that has never been open to the crowdfunding community. This method of potentially profitable investment has previously been reserved for accredited investors only. Despite this, Indiegogo has still managed to successfully launch over 200,000 funding campaigns, sourcing investment in return for […]
Facebook faces up to reality with Oculus deal
Facebook has either pulled off a smart deal or gambled £1.2 billion on Oculus VR – a trendy technology company with no track record making a virtual reality gadget that is not proven to work. The social networking site has a vision of the future which involves the merging of humans and gadgets in a […]
Berners-Lee And The World Wide Web At 25 Years Old
The World Wide Web is 25 years old and to mark the occasion, the inventor Tim Berners-Lee has asked web users to take action over some haunting questions about who and why the internet is used. Berners-Lee put forward a paper on March 12, 1989 suggesting scientists could link their computers into a web of […]
Internet of Everything
The meaning of being ‘connected’ has changed a lot over the years, but no one ever envisaged such a simple word meaning so much as technology and humans move from the world of science fiction to science fact and the internet of everything. The internet of everything, or IoE, is when humans, data and devices […]