Progress Report: We need your help!

Project 10¹⁰⁰ Now is in trouble. The website and Twitter campaign have failed to generate enough exposure to elicit a response from Google. The web traffic spiked on the first day to 250 people and dropped precipitously after that. Yesterday, only 20 people visited the site. We need a major boost to reach critical mass.

If this project is going to succeed, you must help. First of all, we need you to ask your favorite tech blogs to write about us. If you look around most tech blogs, you'll find an email address or contact form for submitting tips. If you don't know of any tech blogs, you can pester Engadget, Mashable, Ars Technica, and Google Blogoscoped. We also need you to promote Project 10¹⁰⁰ Now through social media like Digg, Slashdot, and Delicious. You can do that easily with the "share" link at the bottom of the site or in the sidebar of this blog.

Please don't limit yourself to the promotion methods I've mentioned here. If you can think of an off-the-wall campaign or a crazy publicity stunt, we'd be glad to hear it. Of course, the project could also be saved by a polite letter to a local news station or a flyer on a college bulletin board. We need any help you can provide; one person could be the difference between failure and success.

Progress Report: Gaining momentum

Project 10¹⁰⁰ Now has officially launched! We sent out the press releases Tuesday morning, and we're beginning to see a response.

So far, we've had three blog posts written about the project. One was on the popular Spanish-language blog Mangas Verdes, and one was written for the lively tech blog Internet Evolution. I didn't appreciate the Internet Evolution article's total disregard of my secretive partner, but we need all the exposure we can get.

If you'd like to help Project 10¹⁰⁰ Now succeed, you should bring attention to the project any way you can. You should tell you favorite tech blogs to write about the project or contact Google directly about the delay. Every submission counts; we only need one major article to get Google's attention.

Progress report: Laying the groundwork

Project 10¹⁰⁰ Now is progressing incrementally. Here's a list of what we've already done:

• Published the website We've already launched a stripped-down version of the main web page at Project10tothe100Now.org.
• Joined Facebook and Twitter We've launched both a Twitter account and a Facebook group for our project. Show your support by following us and joining our group.
• Drafted open letter The keystone of our plan is an open letter to Andy Berndt, the man in charge of Project 10¹⁰⁰. The letter has been drafted in two languages, and it will be posted here once it's ready.
• Gathered email addresses Once everything is ready, we'll issue a press release to all of the major tech blogs. If even one writes about our project, our marketing campaign will be a success.

Although we've come a long way already, we still have a few things left on our to-do list.

• Upgrade the website Before we launch the website, we need to get the retweet button working, add a list of the most recent tweets about our project, and let Spanish-speakers find the translated web page and open letter.
• Style the website One of the most important things left for us to do is to make the website look good. We'll go for a spartan, Google-themed style with a splash of red for urgency.
• Upgrade this blog We've made progress on the style of the blog already, but we plan to make it mirror the features of the main website, as well as showing the most recent of our Twitter updates

We're making progress, but we still have a lot left to do. If you have any suggestions, or you'd like to help, please contact us at Contact@Project10tothe100Now.org. We'd love to hear your opinion.