Exploring the internet

So I started off here http://www.palantir.com/ which brought me to the homepage of the company palantir's website. I didn't know anything about this website so i clicked the link that read OUR WORK, which brought me here http://www.palantir.com/what-we-do/ where I learned that palantir is a website that solves technical problems so we can focus on the more important things.

         "We build software that allows organizations to make sense of massive amounts of disparate data. We solve the technical problems, so they can solve the human ones. Combating terrorism. Prosecuting crimes. Fighting fraud. Eliminating waste. From Silicon Valley to your doorstep, we deploy our data fusion platforms against the hardest problems we can find, wherever we are needed most." (quote directly from the site). 

There mission http://www.palantir.com/mission-focus/ is to help the world's largest companies solve there most pressing problems. 

          As i was going through the site i noticed the branding of the company and the website. The company had its own little icon that was incorporated throughout every part of the site. The colors on the site where very consistent as well, everything was black, white and gray unless they were pictures or graphs. the Pictures were very colorful and they pulled your attention. I thing a color scheme is a good idea, it pulls everything together. Even though this seems like a good website and it is I just feel like there was not enough information and the set up of the information they had was a little confusing.

         I also took a look at http://www.gofundme.com . This is a website that is a little like kickstarter in what it does. I personally thought the the homepage page was a little cluttered. but i noticed two sections that they had- a creative arts, music and film section and a education section so i took a look at both
The Arts Section-
http://www.gofundme.com/Creative-Arts-Music-Film/
And in this section i found these people- http://www.gofundme.com/4892go a high school theater department that needs money so they can learn and pay for supplies (sound familiar). they raised $1,285.00 in a week. on there page they have a picture of the group and a description of who they are and what the money will be used for.

There where not many posts like this in the Arts section so i moved over to the education part
http://www.gofundme.com/Education-Schools-Learning/ ... where there wasn't much.

So i looked at http://www.kickstarter.com/?ref=nav , I found that i liked this website better, it looked less cluttered and was easier to find things, it also showed the projects that are going on in your town.
I went to the discover projects link and it brought me here http://www.kickstarter.com/discover?ref=nav . I liked the set up of this page and found it easy to navigate and i like that they kept the color scheme (black, white and green) but it wasn't so drastic that it pulled away from what you are trying to look at. Since here there was not an education section that i could see i went over to the art section where i found them
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1288172791/handcraft-studio-school though they are not kids, this woman was raising the money for the same things we need?want supplies and workshop teachers. this woman raised $9,500 which is $1,000 over her goal in ten days. on her page there was a video, and plenty of pictures. she also gave away prizes depending of how much someone donated.
I found that the most successful people on this website were the ones who posted a video and pictures and gave a lot of information about there program and what they where doing.