21 projects were selected as finalists to potentially share in $100,000 in funding.  The NetSquared participants will vote on the top three projects which will receive $25, $15, and $10K.  The guidelines are:

• Which project(s) could take off and succeed?
• Which project(s) could achieve the greatest impact?
• Which project(s) could be leveraged best by the social change community.

Each project gave a two minute pitch and then there was a "carnival" to allow folks to more closely interact with each project team.  This is what I gleaned from the two minute pitches.  Needless to say, these are not complete "visions" of each group but represent the essence/buzz words that I heard.

21 featured projects -- 2 minutes at a time.

1. Volunteer Now -- Spare Time for Social Good by Mobile Phone.
2. OneWorld.net -- BBC of the nonprofit circle.  More than just an information service.  Voice of the marginalized folks.
3. Greenmap System -- think global map local.
4. Moosemart.org -- Technology can help you make better decisions.  They will empower housing seekers.  Regional contextual maps.
5. Rosetta Project -- Supporting sustainability for languages.  700 languages currently being used, 90% will disappear in the next 100 years.
6. AskyourLawmaker.org -- Set out to level the playing field by asking questions and then those questions are asked by journalists.  Can vote on what questions you want to have asked.  Web widget on 800 sites.
7. Squarepegged.org -- to allow folks to be more influential.  Squarepeg uses a recommendation engine.  Change is social.
8. Crocodyl.org -- Screen scrape Edgar DB  Visualization of companies using SPARQL
9. Ushadi.com means Testimony in Swahili--Deployed in countries with social uprise.  Crowd source conflict.  Free and available.
10. Social Actions--mashup of social networks. Search engine.  Open API
11. Genocide Intervention Network -- Mission is to bring an end to present and future genocide using the legislative process.
12. Thinknola.com -- In New Orleans they used social networking to start rebuilding city.  Photo records are being put together to document the process.
13. Assetmap.org -- two ways that you can view at underserved "Glass is half empty", what can't they get to in terms of resources.  Or "Glass is half full", how do you identify and harness what they have rather than what they don't.
14. Advancement Project, Map This -- Healthycity.org tool created to connect people to resources they can get to.
15. Metavid -- Need for access to representatives/created a few thousand hours of video of representatives and then created a search system for that video.
16. Freecycle -- A free Ebay.  Cybercurbside.  Integrating Cell phone
17. Nomore.org -- Thousands of injustices by corps.  This allows folks to follow brands/products/companies that do bad things.  Corporate abuse.
18. Opencongress.org -- What is really happening in congress?  Opensource/Nonpartisan.
19. YourMapper -- Trying to solve a problem that a map is only as good as the data is represents.  YourMapper is to make public data available through mapping.  Shared revenue with those who create the map/data.
20. Maplight.org -- Mapping money and politics.  If you want to run for office "How much money can you raise".  Not "How will you be a good leader".  Illuminates the abstract of money and politics.
21. Greenerone -- Build eco-ratings for consumer products.  Choose 2 or 3 products of the same quality and pricing will allow you to choose the most green product.

Next comes voting...