OK, I’ve checked them all out and here are my favorite NetSquared Innovation Award proposals. Britt asked us to choose just five, but I saw a good twenty to thirty that had potential:

1. Throngz: The Online Discussion Space That Comes And Gets You*

• Throngz can be used by everybody, not just by people working on hunger, say, or homelessness, or the environment, or whatever issue it might be.
• Throngz is a tool that can add value to every social networking site and to every community of people who long to make deeper, more substantive connections on the Internet.
• The challenges that motivated the creation of Throngz resonate with other Internet users.
• Throngz doesn’t depend on others being present at a particular site for you to interact with them. It helps cure us of “portal-itis.”
• Throngz counters the “diffusion of attention” that occurs each time we go on the Internet.

Tom Watson at onLine discusses many of the frustrations that led to the development of Throngz.

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