Here’s how to vote. 1. You must register with NetSquared’s site to vote. NetSquared is cool so it’s a good idea anyway. 2. Once you’ve logged in go to the bottom of the page where you’ll see the PROJECTS tab. Click on the N2Y3 Mashups Challenge Project Gallery Link. 3. You’ll end up at the project gallery which has a ...

A week ago I posted about working with fellow FISpacer Patrick Shore to  frame a proposal for the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. The proposal was to get help from Google engineers to see what we could do to map data about cancer incidence and mortality along with SES indicators to see if we could get a visually impactful mashup about cancer ...

The 2008 NetSquared conference (N2Y3) will be about the results of their Mashup Challenge. The Challenge is an invitation to nonprofits to think up a  mashup that would serve their cause and submit a proposal to build it. The top proposals will be decided by voting by the NetSquared community. The winners will be matched up with programmers from big ...

What I got out of listening to Craig Venter at The Long Now Foundation lecture last Monday night is a couple of perception shifts about life on Earth that sort of make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You have to understand that Venter is a guy who has no qualms about busting through to new ...