Google is celebrating its 10th birthday this year and is looking back on a decade of technological advances and its direct impact on the way information is distributed, read, understood and found around the world.

The ability to change the world by doing good is something Google takes seriously, literally. “Project 10 to the 100th” is Google’s new brainchild calling for ideas to “Change the World by helping as many people as possible”.  To make sure this happens, Google has committed $10 Million to implement the winning idea.

Project 10 to the 100th kicks off immediately and all idea submissions must be entered by October 20th. Google will pick 100 ideas from the submissions and post them as semi-finalist for voting to take place on January 27th, 2009. 
Once five finalists have been selected for funding, an advisory board will begin the process of identifying the organization(s) and proposals that are in the best position to help implement the selected ideas.

Submissions must fall into one of the set guidelines of the Project and must define how many people the idea would help, how urgent is the need (of the idea), can the idea be implemented within a year or two, and how long will the impact from the implemented idea last.

For more information, visit the official Project 10 to the 100th site.

Techvibes Media Inc. is pleased to announce our sponsorship of Ideas on Tap - a casual business networking event for Tech professionals in Vancouver.  Industry veterans likely recall Ideas On Tap from back in 1999 when IDEApark ran it at the Yaletown Brew Pub.  During the Dot-com bubble, Ideas On Tap was the place to network with the high-fliers of the Tech community and pitch your new ideas. The must-attend event attracted huge crowds to witness elevator pitches where contestants had 60 seconds to win votes from the standing-room only crowd  from atop a milk crate.

As a hyper-local technology blog that covers 8 cities across Canada and Seattle and Portland in the Pacific Northwest, it’s great to see successful initiatives like Ideas On Tap reborn in the local marketplace.  

Techvibes’ office overlooks the Yaletown Brew Pub, so our coverage of the event will be as hyper-local as it can get. This time around, a new wave of tech professionals - social media marketers and bloggers – will join other fans of the tech community to make this event a success.

Congrats to the folks at 6S Marketing for re-inventing Ideas On Tap and bringing it back to Yaletown - it will be great way for people to connect and share ideas over a beer every 3^rd Thursday of the month.

In June 1999 I joined a Yaletown Web design company called Stratford Internet Technologies as the Webmaster for DiscoverVancouver.com. I had been working in the hotel industry for 3 years and was looking to make a change into the emerging world of the Internet. I was living in my parents basement and spending far too much time in front of the computer. With my social life in need of an upgrade, and few friends in the industry, I started attending every high-tech related networking event I could find. Back then, a Yaletown incubator called ideaPARK, launched an event called Ideas on Tap and for a year, until the dot-com crash, it was the most fun networking event around. The event was informal and simple and was hosted at the Yaletown Brewing Company. 8 and a bit years years later, 6S Marketing is bringing it back and trying to retain its grass roots feel.