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The 21 Featured Projects competed at the N2Y3 Conference for a share of $100,000 and other benefits. The winners have been just been announced:

1st place: shahidi: Mapping Reports of Post-Election Violence in Kenya

2nd place: KnowMore.org Firefox Extension

3rd place: Social Actions

And the $10,000 prize for the DonationNow Mashup Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation was awarded to Tweet4Good.

Congrats to all!

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Geekcore: bloggers, virtual revolutionaries, nerdnetizens. Commmonly seen at: NetSquared, CivicActions, NTen, and the Web of Change Conference.

I Heart Miro has created the absolute easiest (and most passive) way to support the Participatory Culture Foundation's FOSS Miro project. By just installing the Firefox extension, anytime you shop at Amazon a small portion of the proceeds will go to support Miro. The extension works by adding the Miro referral code to the URL when you browse on Amazon. When you buy something, the Amazon referral fee is donated to their a 501c3 non-profit. Joe Solomon introduced me to the project and posted on the NetSquared blog about abstracting the project to support any non-profit.

At lunch today I had a great connection with Joe Solomon, a Social Media Consultant, who is the Project Lead of the KnowMore.org Firefox extension. When installed, KnowMore's icons integrate into Google's search results to help users understand data from the KnowMore database. KnowMore is community dedicated to chronicling corporate abuses, worker's and human rights, fair trade, business ethics and the environment, via a vast user-generated wiki database. The extension is powered by KnowMore's new API which enables any developer to take KnowMore's corporate data and build web apps that empower consumers and help citizens hold corporations accountable.

Usability Principle #1: You can't join the party if you can't find the front door.

Monday night, after using the three-day weekend to re-landscape my front yard and launch my new un-business, I faced the reality that I had to get to San Jose for the NetSquared Mashup Conference at 8am. (The day after a three-day weekend seemed a strange scheduling choice.)

I went to the NetSquared site to find the conference location.

This proved surprisingly difficult, as I couldn't find any link referencing the logistics of the conference. After clicking back and forth through 20 other links featured above the fold, I found it discretely hidden in a side bar labeled "Hot Spot."

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The MetaVid project captures legislative proceedings and make full video streams accessible and searchable from the text transcripts. Check out MetaVid directly or search Pelosi read more

Brief Update from NetSquared: Aaron's del.icio.us links from the conference. Leveraging Identity on the Web: http://www.identitywoman.net/?p=769 The Future of FreeCycle Cellular Osmosis Easy-to-build widget apps: http://del.icio.us/pava/widgets Share your PowerPoint: http://www.slideshare.net Make easy forms: http://wufoo.com Forum Hosting: http://www.lefora.com Community Mapping: http://www.yourmapper.com Purchasing Power: http://knowmore.org