Sunlight Labs is pleased to announce our new mashup contest for 2009: Apps for America. Inspired by our own mashup... View Article
Continue readingNetSquared.org’s Mashup Challenge
Our friends at NetSquared.org understand as well as anyone the tremendous potential the Web holds for non-profits and NGO's working for social change. They help these groups build strategic capacity, knowledge and skills through online tools, greatly enhancing their effectiveness and impact.
And voting has begun for NetSquared.org's Mashup Challenge to decide which projects will go on to the 3rd Annual NetSquared Conference (N2Y3), which is to take place May 27 - 28 in San Jose, Calif. You may remember that our grantee MapLight.org was a winner last year.
The community will select the 20 mashups that will go to the conference on March 24. At the conference, NetSquared will ask the 20 selected project teams to present their mashups and attendees will vote to select the top three. They will receive a share of $100,000 in prize money.Here's the link to this year's candidate projects.
Continue readingMashup of the Day
With one week left till the close of our Congressional Mashup Contest we are excited to report that Steve Nelson's Second Life entry has made "Mashup of the Day" at Programmable Web. If you recall we introduced this exciting Mashup before here. Seeing Congressional information take center stage on this cutting edge website really shows how people get excited about new ways to view Congress.
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