TechShop to relocate its Menlo Park workspace, wants your help funding the move

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Do you appreciate TechShop’s community-driven hackerspaces? If so, the company would like your help in keeping one of those facilities alive. TechShop has to relocate its original Menlo Park workspace before October 31st, and it just launched a $250,000 crowdfunding campaign to help cover the moving costs. Should the fundraiser prove successful, TechShop will reward contributors with both prizes and passes to a Halloween benefit party; it will also hand out gift memberships to military veterans. Those who want to give the Menlo Park workshop a second chance can make a pledge at the source link.

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Kickstarter plans North American expansion, launches in Canada this summer

Kickstarter plans North American expansion, launches in Canada this summer

That’s right Canucks, Kickstarter’s launching in your neck of the woods before the midnight sun sets for the season. The crowdfunding site released a teaser page today, announcing that it’ll open up to Canada-based projects later this summer. It’s not the first site of its kind to accept submissions from north of the border, but if Indiegogo hasn’t been drawing in the results you need, you’ll soon be able to give it a go on another platform. The Kickstarter team is mum on an exact launch date, but with a bit less than three months left in summer, the clock is ticking.

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YouTube Campaigns lets nonprofits draw our interest without the telethons

YouTube Campaigns lets nonprofits draw our interest without the telethons

Trying to launch a concerted nonprofit video campaign can feel like tilting at windmills: you might have one moment of undivided attention from viewers before they’re off to watch cats and Nigerian pygmy goats. Google wants to make the most of that time through its YouTube Campaigns initiative. The strategy brings on-video overlays and channel sections that show viewers both a progress meter for the campaign as well as a handy links to explore and share what they’ve found. If all goes well, charities and like-minded organizations get more donations and YouTube views, while we in the general public are reminded that there’s more to life than K-pop videos. It certainly beats manning the phones for a celebrity fundraiser.

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OUYA wrapping up funding with limited brown metal console, Vevo deal

OUYA wrapping up funding with limited brown metal console, Vevo deal

To put it mildly, the OUYA console has had a better than expected funding run — the project is now past the $6 million mark, or six times what it originally needed. The team still wants a little something to end the last week of fundraising with a bang. It just unveiled a limited edition brown, brushed metal version of the console with a controller to match; all it takes is a $140 pledge during the final push to August 9th and you’ve got the Yves Behar-chosen color for yourself. The special run should arrive as part of the wider March 2013 launch. If the original silver hue will do just nicely, thank you very much, OUYA has struck another content deal and will launch Vevo’s music video hub side-by-side with the console. Click past the break for a peek at the controller, and consider a pledge on Kickstarter if you just can’t stand the thought of having the same console as everyone else.

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