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We've just begun Day 2 of NetSquared's annual conference, hosted by Cisco Systems at their Santa Clara, CA conference center. The 350 or so attendees were drawn here by a call for proposals for social good in the form of mashups; the 21 project proposals with the most votes from NetSquared members have made it to the conference and are presenting their cases for funding. Later today everyone here will vote for their favorites, and the top votegetters will share $100,000 to fund their projects.

As we close the application process for the DML Competition tonight, a look back at the images we used in our publicity campaign.

Though I've spent a fair amount of time either in my office or huddled around my laptop at home of late, helping out with the DML Competition, I have been reading a bit about what's going on IRL. Recent notes from the streets ...

How do you learn about a neighborhood without actually being there? I commonly use the internet to find information on living, visiting, or eating my way through unfamiliar neighborhoods, and here are some of the tools that help me do it.