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Omidyar and World of Good

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:19:12 -0400

Does anyone know whether Omidyar and World of Good (also mentioned in the same NewsWeek article on Omidyar) had met up prior to the BOP Conference in San Francisco?

Overview of Handicraft Sites

Rob Katz — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:16:32 -0400

Novica is a good one - I keep coming back to, why do we need a new entrant in this old-model field? An overview of tech-enabled handicraft sites, both mainstream and bizarre, can be found at the Digital Dividend page.

Novica (www.novica.com) has

_imnakoya — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:04:24 -0400

Novica (www.novica.com) has a similar concept.

Review: The Giving Back Awards

Rob Katz — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:11:35 -0400

As I waited for my bagel to toast yesterday, I noticed the latest Newsweek perched in the WRI magazine rack. Normally, I flip to the Perspectives page, then to the Last Word column, and I’m done. Not this time. The cover story, “The Giving Back Awards,” piqued my interest and won out, mostly because of this nagging question: how would Newsweek feature social entrepreneurs, if at all?