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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Kickstarter has evolved into such a wealth of start-up revenue that predicting which projects will and will not succeed has become a subject of academic study; in January, research at Georgia Tech led by Eric Gilbert (Interactive Computing) and doctoral candidate Tanushree Mitra concluded that the language of Kickstarter campaigns — including how authoritative and accessible the project sounded, as well as the kind of rewards it promised to backers — accounted for nearly 60 percent of the variance around success.
Source: Washington Post
