Yes, Spot.us is crowdfunding and Help Me Investigate is crowdsourcing. We were both shortlisted for the Knight News Challenge the same year - Spot.us won the funding, we didn't - but the fact that we got so far gave me the impetus to develop the idea a lot further and eventually get it off the ground with 4iP.
Dave Cohn (who launched Spot.us) and I have talked a few times about a partnership of some form - Spot.us is heading from crowdfunding towards crowdsourcing and there's always been plans to use crowdfunding for Help Me Investigate too. The main obstacle is administrative - we had to form a limited company for the 4iP funding but to crowdfund online you normally have to be a registered charity. Also, many tools for raising money take commission at a level that makes it unviable if you're going to try to raise small sums of money. Otherwise, http://www.sparked.com/ looks an interesting general crowdsourcing tool And crowdfunding stuff bookmarked at http://www.delicious.com/paulb/crowdfunding Paul Bradshaw
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