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Trend Collision/Buzzword Smash

Lucy Bernholz

07 Jul 2011 • 1 min read


Consider this as a Hollywood pitch: "It's like Groupon + Hyperlocal + Crowdfunding. For Good"

Here it is - GiveCorps.

The irony? I was wasting my lunchtime on the brightest shiny object in today's tech skies (Google +) when this came through on that "old fashioned" news site, Twitter.




Tags: trends, buzzword, @givecorps, #givecorps

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