September 2009
3 posts
Opening the Door to Foreign Business
Posted by Merrin
The challenge to create content for a website providing an overview of labor and employment practices in the U.S. is set to close on September 30th, so send in your solutions quickly! Posted by CT Johnson, the challenge aims to benefit foreign investors and businesses that might be concerned about expanding to the U.S. without easy access to this crucial information. The...
Filtering Twitter To Just The URLs - Solved!
Posted by Merrin
Bibhas Acharya just solved a challenge that was posted by Anthony Townsend only a couple of days before to build a web application that filters Twitter down to just the URLs. The application – for which Bibhas was awarded $100 – is called Twit-URLs and can be found at http://768654.appspot.com. Bibhas not only gets $100 but getspublic credit for helping Anthony.
Anthony posted...
Thinking Big in Air and Space
Posted by Merrin
An active promoter of start-ups in air and space, Esther Dyson is hoping to entice a “far-thinking multi-billionaire” to initiate a Mars Habitation Corp. dedicated to making Mars livable for human beings. Dyson suggests that an initial investment would be approximately $20 billion, and that subsequent investment would best be achieved by selling shares to a constituency of...