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Kickstarter: Crowdsourced Funding for Ideas that Matter

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 8 March 2010
I finally made my first Kickstarter pledge today – toward an Invisible Children film project including Yeasayer and Polyphonic Spree. Kickstarter is a new website and funding platform for “artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers….” Started by entrepreneurial blogger and developer Andy Baio, Kickstarter invites anyone to submit a project for funding and/or to fund [...]
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State of California takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 February 2010
  State takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends February 26, 2010 |  3:55 pm The Internet can be a wild place, with all the damage one can do from an office cubicle on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the like. So the state of California on Friday unveiled a “Social Media Standard” to ensure that its employees [...]
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UN Report: 4.6 Billion Mobile Phone Subscriptions Worldwide, Cell Penetration Doubles in Developing Countries

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 23 February 2010
Amazing to read this latest report from the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (emphasis mine): By the end of 2009, there were an estimated 4.6 billion mobile cellular subscriptions, corresponding to 67 per 100 inhabitants globally (Chart 1). Last year, mobile cellular penetration in developing countries passed the 50 per cent mark reaching an estimated 57 [...]
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