StudioE9 receives mention for it’s role in helping Blanket America provide 1 Million blankets to people in need though the use of social media.
Excerpt from Adam Penenberg’s article in Fast Company.
“Blanket America creates a different mechanism for charity. For every item a user buys, another is given away to someone in need. Therefore each act of consumption is also social instead of anti-social. Demand and donation become synonymous. When someone targets their needs, they are also targeting someone else’s needs.”
Read more at Fast Company.
Jonah Keegan talks about an online registry that simplifies giving and receiving 529 contributions for college.
A lot of pixels have been spilled trying to explain what “web 2.0″ means. I’m neither wise nor foolish enough to propose my own answer, but one of my favorites is that it means we’re still only in the second inning of the internet. I think I like that answer because it means we ain’t seen nothing yet.
The improved personalization, more efficient communication, and more data-rich environments (more data equals more better) provided by the current state of the art in internet technology is giving entrepreneurs better tools to solve new problems and in turn open up new markets.
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