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Meet the Kickstarter for XXX Projects: Offbeatr

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A Kickstarter for the XXX world? Meet Offbeatr, the crowdfunding platform for all things adult.

It’s sort of like a Kickstarter for porn — a  place to brainstorm and then create all your kinky ideas. And, if they’re popular enough, get them bankrolled. Last week the site announced they’ve funded over $280,000 for pornographic projects since their launch about nine months ago. But it’s not all NSFW fare. Instead of just the raunchy stuff you might expect, funding has also been for art, games and comic books. Unlike Kickstarter or Indiegogo, projects are only funded if they’re approved by Offbeatr users. In total, 100 adult projects have been created with 4,000 receiving funding pledges. The site has 10,000 registered users who have generated 2.5 million page views. Read more…

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Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the New Digital Age

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The growth of the web, the developing world and digital-age career skills were all topics of discussion last Thursday night at a special fireside chat with tech heavyweights Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen at Google‘s Venice, Calif., headquarters.

The talk felt like an in-person abstract for the duo’s new book, The New Digital Age, which was finished after the two traveled to more than 25 countries to forecast the global digital evolution.

“In the next five to ten years, another 5 billion people will join the Internet,” said Schmidt, the company’s chief executive and one of the world’s richest men. Read more…

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