Kickstarter gives birth to a market: Crowdfunding turns Pebble into a platform

GigaOM :: By now, you’ve probably seen the soaring funding numbers put up by Pebble, the e-paper smartwatch that has broken records as the biggest Kickstarter project to date with $4.7 million raised. It is even more interesting to see how the Kickstarter campaign is helping create an instant ecosystem around Pebble’s app platform, giving it the kind of scale that is very hard to conjure up so quickly in the software world.

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