Reading Scott Thomas’ “Designing Obama”

12Jan11

A book review Scott Thomas wrote a book about the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama called  “Designing Obama”. “Designing Obama” is a special book, if only because it was one of the first to come into place trough crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Also, Thomas played an important role in the design of the Obmama campaign, […]

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Tags: Authenticity, Barack Obama, Branding, crowdfunding, Designing Omaba, Kickstarter, Scott Thomas, Typography

Diaspora Beyond its Growing Pains

20Sep10

Last week, the developers of “Diaspora”, an open source alternative to Facebook released the code of their application. Responses were mixed. Some found security issues, others critiqued the AGPL license, while many others merely expressed their excitement. Many people would like to see a project like Diaspora to be a success, if only because of its David […]

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Tags: Cloudcomputing, community, Crowd Funding, Diaspora, Facebook, GPL, Kickstarter, Mark Zuckerberg, Open Source, P2P Cloud, Privacy, User Experience

Crowdfunding Matures

25Mar10

As February featured both the bankruptcy of sellaband.com and the kick-off of its bookish equivalent tenpages.com, the crowdfunding business model has been in the center of attention again. Is the bankruptcy of SellABand a sign the business model that helped Obama become president is flawed? Is the model still viable once the newness wears off? […]

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Tags: community, crowdfunding, Kickstarter, marketing, participation, Sellaband, Social Media, Tenpages