Kickstarter

Kickstarter is a website where people can fund different creative ideas ranging from video games and ideas about food. People can pledge a certain amount of money toward a project of their choice and it will eventually be funded completely and created. The cool part is that the pledger always something back after the project they funded is complete.

I have decided to fund $50 to Zombie Playground. Zombie playground is a post apocalyptic zombie game that takes place in a school. In the game you are a child who has to fend of the undead. I chose it because I like to play zombie games. My reward for funding will be getting a collectors edition of the game when it comes out plus a digital artbook. I have also decided to also fund $220 the already successful Remee which is a REM enhancing Lucid dreaming mask. It works by flashing lights during REM stages of sleep alerting the sleeper allowing him to control his or her dream. I will recieve a custom remee and a standard remee for my donation. The final project is the limb.al. I will donate $230 for this project. It is a micro usb port that turns your phone into a useful device in work or in the car. The limb.al is a cord that can connect to usb ports and it holds it up so you can multitask. It can even allow windows on your computer to come onto your phone just by dragging it. You can get live feeds form social networking, live blog feeds, stream movies live or even listen to music. With my donation I receive a pre-production limb.al because of my donation. As you can see, Kickstarter offers a variety of creative ideas that you can fund to make the world a better place

Twitter

The 2011 egyptian revolution was a major milestone in history and a large part of the Arab spring. It involved the overthrow the regime of Hosni Mubarak who was the president. People from all different socio-economic backrounds stood up in the many protests. At first the regime seemed almost impossible, but on February 11 2011, Hosni Mubarack officially resigned from power. The aftermath is the soon vote for the new president of Egypt.

Twitter had a large part in the event mainly by helping organize the event. The protesters posted times and dates for protests which was a big reason why most protests were so successful. Because of this new tool in revolutions, this was called "Revolution 2.0". This implies how this revolution is a new version of any other of its kind. The protesters also created hash tags so others can know that they are not alone. This gave them a voice and a greater sense of unity. This is why Twitter was very important in the egyptian revolution.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/01/the-twitter-revolution-debate-the-egyptian-test-case/21296/ 

Crowdsourcing

An example of crowdsourcing is Angies List. Angies List is a website where people share reviews of different services such as babysiters or lawnmowers. To read and write reviews you need to buy a membership from Angies List. Tis information exchange is what makes it crowdsouring.

Another example of crowdsourcing is iStockPhotos. iStockPhotos is a website where people upload pictures and other people are able to buy these pictures. The buyers get the photo for cheap and the uploaders receive a small profit. This photo exchange is what makes this crowdsourcing.