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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Google Project 10^100 open letter

To Andy Berndt, Director of Google's Project 10100

I'm concerned about Google's Project 10100. Way back in the fall of 2008, you announced Project 10100 in celebration of Google's tenth birthday. You planned to gather big ideas from normal people and launch the best of those ideas for the benefit of all mankind. Along with many others, I submitted my idea and began waiting for you to announce the 100 finalists. I wasn't surprised when you pushed the announcement of the finalists back to March 17; after all, you had received over 150,000 entries. However, when March 17 arrived and you didn't set a new date to announce the finalists, I began to worry.

The economic crisis was still intensifying, and the need for Google's Project 10100 was increasing, yet the project was delayed indefinitely. I had hoped that a new deadline would be announced within a week or two, but my optimism was unfounded. You haven't given any news about the project for over one hundred days, while the need for Project 10100 hasn't subsided.

Perhaps the recent internet crackdown in Iran could be stopped by someone's internet anonymity idea, or maybe an individual's green energy plan could create jobs for the unemployed. Project 10100 has great potential to help the world, but potential alone can't help anybody.

Project 10100 has been delayed long enough. It is time for you to set a firm date to announce the finalist ideas. Transfer in people from other departments, encourage your employees to work overtime, or set aside your division's other projects, but finish Project 10100. The world has waited long enough.

27 comments:

  1. 10 million is just a drop in the bucket for ya Google! Your word is worth much more...

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  2. I agree, but I don't think they'll cancel the project. I think they're saving the announcement for something, like their eleventh birthday celebration. However, I think they should start the project now when the world needs it most.

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  3. I heard someone say Sparta?

    Yea, I am in.

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  4. Yes, just go for it... Can this be done this year?

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  5. Google can change our lives for the better.

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  6. An official Facebook group would be a good idea to make this site a success, we are supossed to be more that 100,000 so lets gather them and do it. I'm really tired and frustrated of waiting for an answer. May those who help the most win ! BUT NOOOOOW !!!!! C'mon Google !

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  7. By the way the official email still is Project10tothe100@google.com so we can send to them this site.

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  8. There is a Facebook group!
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128434250662

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  9. The other high-profile delayed Google contest, Android Developer Challenge 2, has officially begun as of August 1, and entries are due by August 31. This means there are no more excuses for Google to at least give a tenative date for 10^100.

    Come on, Google, get your act together! This is going beyond unprofessionalism, and is starting to look like there must be some serious infighting going on there. This is tarnishing your normally goody-goody image, and may invite legal action for damages due to diversion of intellectual property by fraud. Time is running out.

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  10. I think they've taken the ideas and are working on them without giving credit where credit is due.

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  11. Google sucks! People should start withdrawing their ideas - legally, because what Google's doing is getting illegal. This could be a good chance for a Google competitor to jump in - perhaps Yahoo...

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  12. I think very few people would be willing to withdraw their ideas because there's still a chance their ideas could still be chosen. It would take a massive withdrawing of ideas for Google to take note, but everybody still wants their idea to be chosen.

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  13. To stay with Google till 'this fall' (which could easily be for another two years :) or with another company (must be animated first) that would handle the matter honestly and with due respect for submitters? I vote for Richard Branson :)...

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  14. "As between you and Google, you retain ownership of any intellectual and industrial property rights (including moral rights) you have in and to your submission.
    As a condition of participation, you grant Google, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative work from, and publicly display your submission and the proposal provided therein"

    a "perpetual".
    can someone explain?
    or is this sign, sealed, and delivered.
    (crossing fingers)
    by the way, "perpetual" is just the starting

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  15. All I am saying is it would be wise if we all went to them with cross fingers,

    yes we must all go to them so that they would know

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  16. i no a way out but i have to work on it personally for many days. i need only one hundred idea submitters e mail id so that i can do my part.
    if u have faith in me then send me your e mail id.

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  17. for aug 12 data my e mail id is ashokmisrasy@yahoo.co.in.....Anonymous

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  21. What the F__K! Google scams all our best ideas. Even when they pick the finalists another year from now I'm sure the finalists won't even include the best (google will steal the REAL beast ideas and launch those businesses themselves)

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  22. Look people, Google is a scam. They just prooved it with this whole 10^100 idea thing. I suspect that they planned to take all of the ideas and lock them away from the start. Having a database of useful ideas is valuable, even if say only 5% of those ideas are seriously good it's still worth a lot. They didn't have to pay anything for these ideas.

    Google doesn't respect you either. If they did they would respect your time and not demand votes within 2 weeks after dragging their feet for so long. Besides, they have broken the terms they laid out originally. They have changed the thing around to be whatever they said it should be. Interesting how a company with so many resources can't be bothered to let us see any of the ideas submitted!!!!

    They will either try to claim ideas for themselves or sell access to their secret database of ideas to others.

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  23. Instead of allowing Google to monopolize on the hidden ideas they have collected we need to open up websites that invite people who gave Google ideas to reproduce their ideas on those websites.
    I personally kept exact copies of the ideas I submitted to Google.

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  24. Hello. I am writing a piece about this issue and if anyone here would like to share their story I would like to talk to you. Thanks

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  25. Hi!
    By story what do you mean please

    Mouli
    www.EurekaOnDemand.com

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