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Google's Project 10^100 team announced today that they were unable to complete the internally vetted list of 100 finalists for public voting, because they were overwhelmed by the number of ideas (over 150,000). They have pushed back the announcement date to March 17 (St. Patrick's Day).

Josh Emig, Nash Hurley and myself decided to use Google's Project 10^100 ideas competition to give shape to an idea that we had been kicking around for some time. Project 10^100 was launched to celebrate Google's 10th birthday (crazy, right?), with the company committing $10 million (even crazier) to fund up to five ideas to "change the world, in the hope of helping as many people as possible."