The concept of crowdfunding has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years. The idea that individuals can network and pool their resources is now being applied to a number of areas. In terms of figures, crowdfunding campaigns managed to raise $2.8 billion in 2012. The fame of crowdfunding has also reached Hollywood where two movie projects (Veronica […]

Even though scientists created this glorious internet you see before you, current scientific practice is still based more on publishing academic papers than sharing ideas online. As one of the more prominent proponents of the open web, Mozilla stepped in to offer a solution with a new open science initiative called Science Lab. It’s designed to bridge the gap between […]

Senior management face a perennial problem in encouraging staff across different functions / teams to stay aligned, particularly across staff who might not normally meet each other in their everyday role. Coffee Who is an app encourages face to face meetings which enable staff to build strong relationships with each other, share knowledge and solve problems. Regular face to face […]

Around 72 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. It would take you approximately 6400 years to watch all those millions of videos. So good luck trying to find something worth watching on your lunch break. Devour is here to help. Using a scientifically technologically artificially intelligently awesomely robotically humanly system (we hand-pick every video on the site), […]

Recruitment and daily staff management for companies and organizations of all sizes is now easier and more accurate with Talent Chaser, the first and only evidence-based recruitment method. The fully scalable software assists with the recruitment of personnel as well as the day-to-day management of staff – two functions which have traditionally operated independently from one another. Unlike other recruitment […]

Airtime is the best frictionless video platform for launching instant video conversations with random people who happen to have some shared interests. That may sound scary, but it’s actually kind of fun. This lightweight, powerful tool for social discovery based on shared Facebook’s interest graph and Facebook friends has relatively rich store of tools for enhancing your video conversations and […]

Vyclone’s special features are positioning it to become the video sharing site within the music category. The iOS app, which was released in May, was conceived as a way for music fans to share and compile footage from live performances. Smartphone videographers can upload up to one minute of footage to Vyclone’s server, where it’s then added to a pool […]

Picle, an iOS app introduced in March by digital agency Made by Many, lets smartphone photographers simultaneously record a few seconds of ambient sound as they take a photo. The resultant audio/visual moments, known as Picles, reside somewhere between the photo and video as a unique medium that perhaps most closely resembles a multimedia children’s storybook. Picles can be shared […]

Hoppit is your personal concierge with an extensive knowledge of the world around you. As the world’s first ambience search engine, it’s the web’s simplest way to curate the world around you. Hoppit provides highly curated recommendations for restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and lounges based on your taste preferences. It finds the perfect ambience for any occasion. Hoppit’s tailored recommendations, […]

For those who prefer art house films to box office blow-ups, Flixel may be more to their liking. Recognizing that the technical expertise that Beck and Burg pour into their category-defining works is not attainable by the everyman, Flixel co-founder Mark Homza wanted to introduce a systemized way for people to add discreet animations to their photos. The resulting “living […]