ChaCha is a free mobile answers service, allowing users to call 1-800-2-ChaCha or text questions to ChaCha (242-242) on mobile phones and receive answers within minutes from real people. We've just launched our new API's, which provides you with free access to ChaCha's database with over 400...

 The NYC BigApps Competition will reward the developers of the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the City of New York's NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.

Update 10/02/09: Thank you very much for your participation in the Mozilla Labs Weave Web UI Design Challenge. The Weave team will go through the submissions in the coming days, evaluate, and discuss. Mozilla should finish this process by the end of next week, after which they will provide...

Create a Google QSB plugin that allows me to quick add to Google Calendar. Deliver me the source code.

First, create a list in excel as follows: Company Name, Company Phone Number, Company Website Listing all of the property management companies in NYC. This alone will be useful. Next, create a list of buildings with their corresponding management companies: Street Address of Building,...

It is a huge environmental waste to package and transport bottled water to offices when there is already running water in the building that could be filtered, cooled, and made available to office workers for hydration. Water companies are driving large trucks that pollute the environment to...

I'm sure everyone has dreamed of winning a prize at one time or another - the HGTV dream home giveaway, a trip to the Bahamas advertised on the back of a grocery box or a makeover from a high end salon.  Many of these sweepstakes have online entry forms where people can post their...

As a classical singer, I'm often asked to sing for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, birthday parties, anniversary events, etc. and I'm sometimes at a loss for a variety of options to offer the event host.  Language requirements are occasionally given or secular versus non-secular...

There's still an ongoing debate whether cellular phone radiofrequency radiation is indeed clinically harmful. Never the less, given the immense numbers of users of mobile phones, even small adverse effects on health could have major public health implications. Note children are especially at...

Moffett Field’s Hangar One is a recognizable landmark in the San Francisco Bay area and a part of its early aviation history. The Navy built Hangar One in 1932 for the USS Macon and to serve as the West Coast base for the U.S. lighter-than-air aviation program. The Navy transferred the...

How many times do you simply click "I agree" to a bunch of legal-ese without having read a single word? How often do you check the box which says you've read the full Terms of Service for a product download or a website sign-up, when you've merely scrolled past it all to the bottom of the...

Develop a small and portable device that measures purity of the milk. Impure and contaminated milk is a big problem in China, India and many other developing countries. Over 50% of the milk is distributed by small dairy owners and distributors and less than 50% by the large companies. Due to...

While venture capitalists pass on companies for many reasons, one of the most common reasons is that they don't think the opportunity is "big enough". What does this mean?  It means that even if the company executes as planned, the VC doesn't think the exit will be large enough to generate...

Current prosthetic legs are expensive and only last 3 to 4 years. To win this challenge you must create a complete design for high-performance legs that will last for at least 5 years and that can be built for less than USD$1,000.00 Users must be able to run and sprint comfortably as well to...

Would you like to make a contribution of historical proportions? Here's your chance. This challenge is to create technology that can literally help to reshape our world, liberate hundreds of millions of people from repression, and bring down evil regimes in the process. There are few...

Step by Step instructions in MSWord to research and file appropriate paperwork to be issued a Patent on a Physical Item/Design  

A public service that will let two or more people schedule a meeting.  Just provide email address, calendar service, schedule rules, and it will poll your individual calendars to suggest a time.