IndieGoGo

Last night at the Web 2 NY meeting, IndieGoGo co-founder Slava Rubin presented their independent movie making marketplace. We covered IndieGoGo back in January and called it a, "online social marketplace to connect the needed people and tools to make films." You can search ideas that are already in the system and get involved or upload your own movie ideas. Artists post, promote and produce their movies through IndieGoGo and fans discover, support, and get perks from the artists. There are a variety of community features and widgets to bring artists and fans closer together to create movies that the fans want.

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This week on nextNYers, Courtney sits down with NY-based Indaba Music co-founders Matthew Siegel and Dan Zaccagnino. Indaba Music is an online social network and web application that not only provides musicians and artists with the ability to locate and communicate with one another, but also to collaborate with fellow artists. Musicians can use Indaba as a tool to finesse already composed tracks, or create brand new material from scratch with their peers. They are privately funded and aren't seeking any additional funding at this time.

Last month we covered a similar service, IndieGoGo.

Check out all of the previous nextNYers episodes along with our review of online video in NYC.

Earlier this week a new NY-based startup launched called IndieGoGo. The site is an online social marketplace to connect the needed people and tools to make films. You can search ideas that are already in the system and get involved or upload your own movie ideas. I spoke with founder Slava Rubin to learn more about the service. He said most of the ideas come from writers and producers but anyone is encouraged to participate in the movie making process. It's all about engaging the audience was a theme I heard throughout the conversation.

They have three working taglines:

1. Where independent happens
2. Don't just choose the movie to watch, choose the movie to make
3. DIWO - do it with others

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