His idea: to cater less to the do-it-yourself crowd than to the bigger-ticket, do-it-for-me set.
No-one who heard it will ever forget the tidal wave of sound welling from the depths of the crowd that greeted the news that Mr Obama had won - it rippled back through the crowd that stretched far into the darkness of the night and seemed to hang and echo between the downtown skyscrapers.
Work had already begun on the game, said Mr Garriott, but those backing it via the crowd-funding site would also get a say in how it would be built.
The non-American force would not supplant the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the go-it-alone crowd in Europe insists.
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It brought the brand to life for consumers and for the business-to-business crowd it provided a human face for the big box retailer.
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"Seeing it in America - the crowd, the atmosphere, the advertisements and how big boxing is over there - it's made me want to go over there and fight, " he said.
Think of it as crowd-sourced mentoring for the Millennial crowd, collecting data points and case studies from every member in hopes to better serve the startup community down the road.
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Neither Stephens nor Huntingdon will reveal the identity of the mystery buyer--but the animal-rights crowd suspects that it is Stephens in disguise.
Carmack, the 38-year-old multimillionaire software whiz behind the videogames Doom and Quake, is a pesky gnat among the do-it-yourself rocketeering crowd.
An integrated enterprise social collaboration suite makes it easy to find or crowd-source the correct answer and then provide it to the customer.
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Best Picture and Best Director usually go to the same movie, but it is possible the Academy could split them between crowd-pleaser, "Slumdog" and "Benjamin Button" this year.
Rutherford also praised the 80, 000-strong crowd at the stadium, saying "it was the lift I needed to win".
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Written in SBOL, an open-source language popular with the synthetic-biology crowd, it seemed like a standard vaccine request.
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The 920, which already looked a very attractive product in the brief moments I had my hands on it last week, will have something to make it stand out from the crowd - in the UK at least.
Later, medal in hand, I watched, awestruck, from the stands as the winners were awarded their trophies and the final two competitors -- one using a walking frame, the other on crutches -- made it across the line to the roars of the crowd.
The brunch at Moonshine's is not to be missed - even if it meant waiting out the crowd that starts congregating well before doors open at 10 am on Sundays.
Consider the guest list - for they are all guests, invited by the forum - and it will soon become apparent why this crowd stands out.
The home crowd are expectant - it will be fascinating to see how the team cope with the pressure.
It equivocated before plumping for the crowd-pleasing option.
And while I was walking along the rope line -- it was a big crowd, about 3, 000 -- a young woman in uniform was shaking my hand and other people were grabbing and taking pictures.
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The online game targets 8-14 year olds, but the company says it sees a sizable crowd of teen and adult players.
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There was little celebration afterward, with many fans having already left when the public address announcer told the crowd the Knicks had won it after Anthony finished his on-court interview.
Of all the things, it's almost the best bit - the noise, the roaring of the crowd and journalists, that's wonderful.
'Course, it'll still take some arm twisting to get the low-end crowd to try anything not labeled "Windows, " but if anyone can do it, it's the company that inexplicably kept Gmail in "beta" for over five years.
Burke, only recalled because of injury to Michael Chopra, had danced around the covering defenders before poking a miss-hit effort through a crowd of bodies and it trickled into the corner of Millwall stopper David Forde's net.
The crowd all joined in - it was a terrific finale to a terrific match.
Exchanges are scrambling to cater to the high-frequency crowd, in part because the huge volumes they generate can make it easier for other traders on the exchange to execute orders.
By the time they made it to the gold medal round, a capacity crowd that included royalty and celebrities -- from Prince Harry to David Beckham -- turned out to watch what May-Traenor had said months earlier would likely be her last match.
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We're most interested in the ATIV S: thanks in part to Windows Phone 8's multi-core support, it's effectively a Galaxy S III for the Microsoft crowd with a similar 4.8-inch Super AMOLED HD screen, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.9-megapixel front shooter.
Seriously, stratospheric prices don't bother us -- there is the "rich keep getting richer" crowd, after all -- but is it too much to ask for feature parity with entry-level receivers for this kind of money?
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