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I think I first met Peter Deitz at Web of Change, talking about his work as micro-philanthropy consultant, and his idea to mash up the actionable opportunities on all the platforms for social change. That became Social Actions, a platform where you can find things to do: join an event, sign a petition, donate to a cause, give out a loan, volunteer.

RSSMixer es un nuevo servicio en línea, que te permite mezclar las feeds que lees en forma diaria y crear un mashup en distintos formatos.

Es lo más facil que ví para crear un recurso de este tipo.  Solo llenamos un formulario en donde le damos un nombre al mashup que vamos a crear, introducimos las url’s de las rss feeds, incluímos las etiquetas con que queremos etiquetar al mashup, su descripción, presionamos Mixit y listo, ya tenemos nuestro mashup listo.

It's been a little over 2 months since the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) where the 21 NetSquared Mashup Challenge Featured Projects presented their ideas.  The Conference may have ended, but their work has not. 

I rode my bike to the gym tonight. Was a little odd to start my workout already warmed up – not a bad thing though. The ride is easy enough and I think I’ll try to do this more often.

Once I got home I was curious about how far, exactly, I had ridden. I found a site that makes it very easy to find out: Gmaps Pedometer.

It is a reasonably simple web app that uses Google Maps to help you find distances. Anyone who walks, jogs, runs or bikes might find it useful when wondering about distances.

Heck, it’ll even give you a (weight-based) calories burned estimate.

The NetSquared, Cisco and the other sponsors put on a great event. Here are some of the folks I worked with at the registration table in the morning.

Jayson Fagar & Colleen Nagle, NetSquared staffers, at the registration table.

I'm writing this while I sit in the passenger seat of a giant, white cargo van careening up the East Coast on route 15, so if I seem a bit distracted in tone, that's probably why. I could wait the four hours until I'm safely in the confines of my computer chair, but I don't want to lose the ideas while they're there. Well, that and I'm sort of melodramatic...

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We've got 3 deadlines coming up. Please pass them on to interested folks:

In my third year coming to NetSquared, I find myself in a new role: as one of 21 designated "project leads" who will be trying to connect the featured projects with the developers ready to work on an NGO project.

I'm working with Roshani Kothari and Michael Litz of the Oneworld Connect project, and together we've started a wiki page with what we'd like to work on. I'm posting the story here too: please help us develop this further, shape our thoughts, and connect our ambitions to the endless possibilities :-)

Last year, NetSquared Featured Project, FamilyFarmed.org received the Yahoo! Green Award for its potential to use Web 2.0 tools to benefit the environment by connecting everyday consumers with their local farmers.

This year, Yahoo! is looking for innovative “green mashups” that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment.

Last week I posted about a volunteer opportunity for Bay Area folks to demonstrate how to make mashups at the Maker Faire May 3 & 4, but I gave you an incorrect email address.

If you are interested in volunteering, please email Jon Zilber at jzilber@techsoup.org.

If you live in the Bay Area, don't forget to sign up for Sun Microsystems and NetSquared Meetup/Mashup on May 4th. Below is a re-post of more information about the event from Sun's CommunityOne site. You can also check out the event's Facebook page.

Meetup/Mashup