There is a great article on Mashable this week that explains an overview on crowdfunding and explains the difference between all the micro funding types.
In April 2011, I helped Tweet Land Game out of Costa Rica with marketing, media and PR and ultimately to successfully raise the funding they needed to launch their first game ‘Tweet Land Game’ which is the first game in the world to merge tweets with real time game play. They used the popular U.S. crowdfunding program, KickStarter.com, however, in Latin America they have recently launched Idea Me which is a similar concept (offered in Spanish).
Check out The History of Crowdfunding Article
