The deadline to vote for your favorite NetSquared Mashup Challenge projects is 5 PM PT---one hour from now!

The NetSquared Mashup Challenge is a community-based project so your votes will determine which 20 projects will go on to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3).

Use your power wisely, and  vote.

Hey Net2!

We've decided to give the projects who submitted mashup ideas to the NetSquared Mashup Challenge more time to get out the vote, so we've extended the voting deadline to Monday, March 24th at 5 PM PT.

Flex your voting muscles and help determine which of the 122 projects that were submitted to the NetSquared Mashup Challenge will go on to the 3rd Annual NetSquared Conference (N2Y3). The top 20 projects will have an opportunity to discuss and display their projects at the Conference. Conference attendees will vote to select the top three projects. All 20 projects will receive a share of $100,000 in prize money.

When you vote for your favorite projects this week, please keep these three criteria in mind:

Our Net2 Livebloggers have been taking notes during the Intro Presentations and Feedback Sessions so that you can refer to them when you are deciding on who to vote for.

You can read notes from the Project Intro Presentations and Feedback Sessions from Day 1 here.

And here are the posts from Day 2:

Feedback Session 4

Social Impact Track by Sophia Tu

Welcome to San Jose! It's great to see so many innovators in one room with an interest in bringing new resources and new players together.

So what are we doing here? To connect, resource, share, learn, collaborate, brainstorm, challenge, encourage and vote!

For the next two days I will be blogging here at Cisco for the feedback focus sessions and will do my best to keep the conversations alive here on NetSquared.

Daniel's at the podium now setting the stage for the event, asking us all to keep brevity at a premium as we seek to go through 21 great projects in a matter of hours. The hat person chooses Nabuur first as the projects begin their five minute introduction to present their work to the community.

Best wishes to all of the presenting innovation networks!

Youth Venture, sister program of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (www.ashoka.org), is one of three finalists in the MySpace Impact Awards. Youth Venture is building a global movement of young social changemakers by inspiring and investing in young people around the world to launch and lead their own social ventures. Youth Venture is using it's innovative new website, www.genv.net, to connect young people across the globe in a movement of youth-led social change. Youth who have already launched Ventures can create their own profiles of their teams and can read about and connect to other teams.

We're still working on some details, but we hope to be able to announce the winning projects this afternoon. Stay tuned.

"The thrill is not just in the winning, but in the courage to join the race."

We will be announcing the 20 Featured Projects that will continue on to the Net2 Conference tomorrow, Wednesday, April 18th around Noon PDT. (Update 4.18.07 at 8:50 AM PDT: Looks like it will be later in the day).

With 45 minutes of voting left, we're sure you're as excited as we are to find out who won. In the meantime, we're thinking that you might have some questions like:

Why Didn't You Use Judges?
Isn't This Just a Popularity Contest?
Won't People Just Pick Their Project and Four More Random Ones?
Couldn't You Have Made the Voting Process Easier?

Check out this cool mashup badge that Lars Hasselblad Torres made for  voters to post on their web site or blog. Thanks, Lars!

You can pick up the code for it here.