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April 29, 2008

Obama in 30 seconds - 15 Finalists

Check out the Finalists.


Positive Vision:

Targeted at Republicans:

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April 5, 2008

Social Innovation Camp in London this weekend

logo.jpgThis weekend in East London is what looks like an amazing first of it's kind event that hopefully will be replicated across the world soon. Based on the Barcamp / Unconference events that have blown up over the last year or so, Social Innovation Camp puts teams of techies with social entrepreneurs whose 5 ideas have been chosen before the weekend event.

My housemate Seth actually submitted one of the selected ideas, which is Stuffshare, Freecycle meets Street Car . The idea that actually seems the most similar to my own vision for Open Green is Barcode Wikipedia:

A site for storing user-generated information – such as carbon footprint, manufacturing conditions and reviews - against a product, identified by its barcode number.

Even though I'm a bit disappointed to not have submitted an idea to the perfect event for my converging interests (too much of my time focused on my job), it'll be cool to attend the final session tomorrow afternoon.

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Live from my Nokia N95 to you

I found out via rubbishcorp about this interesting app qik that enables live broadcasting from my phone. Of course the challenging part is the lack of permission from people, but we'll see where it takes us.

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