Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009

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Since contests are so in vogue this year. Let's have a contest for people using public data APIs to find the biggest discrepancies in spending for different departments, etc.

Giving people data and a little bit of motivation will really show what can be done with this stuff.

Do you mean http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/ ?

i can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but i'm not. they are awesome!!

i won a contest and happily use products founded on top of open api's. the open ecosystem is growing!

Recovery.gov, perhaps one of the best-known of the new sites, offering up details of how resources from the Recovery Act are being allocated.

Recovery.gov is know for costing $18 million for something that could be mimicked with a Wordpress theme and a flash slideshow.

Although I do find them interesting because they apparently have a pagerank of 10, higher than that of Congress, the Senate, the President, Yahoo, MSN, or iGoogle, and tied with Google itself.

Interesting side note: Recovery.gov runs on Drupal.

This is a very good start IMO. I think they should try to monetize these websites and run like a corporation and then lower the taxes side-by-side. I dont see a reason why they should not. People will be paying money from all around the world and we (US tax payers) will be saving money. :)

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