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Facebook Fund REV Graduation Day: Backlight, Thread and More

By Dana Oshiro / September 1, 2009 7:00 PM / View Comments

facebook_demo_aug09.jpgAfter a summer of hard work, Facebook's 24 fbFund REV incubator companies presented their products to a room full of investors, entrepreneurs and journalists. Created by Accel Partners and Founders Fund, the fbFund REV program is meant to foster innovation and test the boundaries of app development on the Facebook platform. The groups have certainly come a long way from concept to creation, below are just a few of our favorites:

Google Stiffs Nonprofits, Launches Second Rate Widget Builder With No Hosting

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 9, 2008 8:48 AM

The new Google Gadget Builder for Organizations looks like the easiest way there is to build a widget for webpages or a gadget for iGoogle. Intended for nonprofit organizations, the Gadget Builder lets widget authors combine RSS feeds, YouTube video playlists and links to donate or join the email list serve for your organization.

That sounds great, until you start kicking the tires. On the same week Google launched it's ballyhooed App Engine, which offers powerful Google-style development architecture and gobs of free hosting and scaling - nonprofits get stuck with a substandard builder for widgets that Google won't even host for them.

NetSquared Mashup Challenge: 120+ Mashups for Social Change

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 19, 2008 10:40 AM

net2conflogo.jpgNonprofit tech assistance project NetSquared has opened the voting for their Mashup Challenge this week and it's a great place to discover a long list of interesting mashups being built to make the world a better place.

We've written about one participant here before, MoveSmart, and another really good one (SocialActions) reached out to us this week with a handy Sproutbuilder widget embedded below.

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