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.

Judging: Will be performed by NYCEDC.

The realtime web is rich with signals, and alive with the seeking, sharing and viral spreading of information. OneRiot API partners use these signals to deliver realtime content to the people looking for it - but what does it look like before it reaches them? In other words - how can we... read more

Judging: Will be performed by OneRiot.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Pankaj Maheshwari.

Vim is a popular text editor with a very large community and thousands of available plugins.  Unfortunately, the central clearinghouse for these plugins -- http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php -- is extremely basic and lacks many useful features such as user reviews, searchable metadata,... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Benjamin Hoffstein.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Rod Furlan.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Nova Spivack.

One  challenge for current medical research, and especially genetic research, is that most people with extensive health records are sick or in some way unhealthy.  We know much more about the sick than about the healthy, let alone the super-healthy.  Therefore, I'd like to see both... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Esther Dyson.

The idea is to make Mars livable for human beings, by giving it a climate similar to Earth's (Terra's).  This should be easier to do on Mars than on Earth because no one lives there to complain; we can experiment with less concern for errors. It will take a few decades and several 10s of... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Esther Dyson.

I do my best to ensure my family is consuming a balanced diet, but how good a job am I actually doing?  At the beginning of each week, I select recipes from various sites that I like and from a stack of recipe books, and I make sure to add fruit, cereal and healthy snacks into the mix, but I... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Julie Baron.

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

Judging: Will be performed by Emilio Matt.

 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.

Judging: Will be performed by NYCEDC.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Nova Spivack.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Mozilla.

The realtime web is rich with signals, and alive with the seeking, sharing and viral spreading of information. OneRiot API partners use these signals to deliver realtime content to the people looking for it - but what does it look like before it reaches them? In other words - how can we... read more

Judging: Will be performed by OneRiot.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Josh Kopelman.

Vim is a popular text editor with a very large community and thousands of available plugins.  Unfortunately, the central clearinghouse for these plugins -- http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php -- is extremely basic and lacks many useful features such as user reviews, searchable metadata,... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Benjamin Hoffstein.

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,... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Andrew Kortina.

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

Judging: Will be performed by Andrew Kortina.

The idea is to make Mars livable for human beings, by giving it a climate similar to Earth's (Terra's).  This should be easier to do on Mars than on Earth because no one lives there to complain; we can experiment with less concern for errors. It will take a few decades and several 10s of... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Esther Dyson.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Rod Furlan.

 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.

Judging: Will be performed by NYCEDC.

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... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Nova Spivack.

Being a successful entrepreneur is hard work, but as Apple says, “There’s an app for that!”...well, there isn’t, but we think there should be! With the explosive popularity of the iPhone and mobile applications, we’re challenging all hardworking entrepreneurs to put on their thinking... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Angelsoft.

We’re very excited to be part of LeWeb’s startup competition. We will have a few minutes only to demo in front of the jury how cool superfeedr is. Needless to say that it’s pretty hard for an API-based service, and we want to showcase cool stuff created with Superfeedr! We're... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Superfeedr.

For hundreds of years, entrepreneurs have started new ventures based on a carefully prepared written document known as the Business Plan. Essentially unchanged throughout that time, the traditional business plan includes sections on things like Organizational Background and Product... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Angelsoft.

The realtime web is rich with signals, and alive with the seeking, sharing and viral spreading of information. OneRiot API partners use these signals to deliver realtime content to the people looking for it - but what does it look like before it reaches them? In other words - how can we... read more

Judging: Will be performed by OneRiot.

Vim is a popular text editor with a very large community and thousands of available plugins.  Unfortunately, the central clearinghouse for these plugins -- http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php -- is extremely basic and lacks many useful features such as user reviews, searchable metadata,... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Benjamin Hoffstein.

We seek a software applet that will shade shapes of an .shp or .svg file based upon  external data.. We work for Democrats and progressive causes and  frequently generate maps to aid in the understanding of the political landscape in a congressional or local race.  Geographical boundaries... read more

Judging: Will be performed by Brad Chism.

This challenge is to create content for a website dedicated to helping foreigners invest and do business in the US.  Labor & Employment Practices is an area of significant concern for most foreign businesses coming to the US.  The content should address unions, discrimination and equal... read more

Judging: Will be performed by CT Johnson.

The New York State Legislature, long a hotbed of turf wars, ethnic politics, naked self interest, backroom dealings and general incompetence, has finally outdone itself. The New York State Senate is currently deadlocked in a 31-31 split between Democrats and Republicans, with the consequence... read more

Judging: Will be performed by David S. Rose.