This category features organizations doing good by providing platforms, applications, services and products to help make others feel better, live better and uplift our globe. These are posts that showcase ideas that are helping transform our world.
Jojo, an altruistic Belgian shoe brand, picks up where philanthropic companies like Toms leave off. Designed to look like a bandaged foot, for every pair of Jojo shoes purchased, they plant one tree or provide one person with a year of clean drinking water. But you don’t have to… Read More…
After powering problem-solving challenges for clients like the U.S. federal government, the city of New York, Michelle Obama, Samsung and the World Bank, ChallengePost has raised $4.1 million to develop a new type of platform — one that not only solves problems, but helps point them out…. Read More…
It was only a few months ago we saw the launch of Tokii, claiming to be the world’s first relationship management platform. Now San Francisco start-up Kahnoodle is also aiming to use web and mobile technology to help couples stay together…. Read More…
We’ve covered news aggregators on our virtual pages before, but now we’ve come across something a little different. Aiming to bring more news reports from around the world before the eyes of English-speaking readers, French Worldcrunch selects, translates and edits content from top foreign-language outlets and delivers them online to English speakers…. Read More…
Thotpad is a micro blogging network based on votes. Its aim is to bring forth the collective conscience of the people and unite them. Designed as a social network to create and promote change, Thotpad reaches out to the crowd and puts everyone on their own soap box to lets it be known what their decision and “thot” is…. Read More…
The destruction of the World Trade Center towers was indisputably a massive loss for every American. For lifelong New Yorkers, however, something else was lost. … 110 Stories is an iPhone app concept by Brian August that will use augmented reality to place the Twin Towers back in to view…. Read More…
More than 3.5 million people die each year as the result of water-related disease according to the World Health Organization. Water Canary, a new device unveiled this week at TED Global in Edinburgh, Scotland, hopes to put a dent in this number by providing real-time information on potential outbreaks of disease- infected water…. Read More…
Getting to know your neighbors, those in your community and local area can sometimes be a difficult task. You might not know if they have similar interests or even want to be social. Communr is a social network associated around your local community by connected people from the same community who share similar interests and lifestyles. Also, Communr connects people to the places and businesses in their community. Essentially, Communr is a new way to connect you with your community…. Read More…
There have been times where people have been sick at the new-startups.com offices and other times where conversations turn into how to deal with different ailments and the treatments that have been given, shared or even invented. Healthysparx is a simple way to ask questions about health and get answers. Healthysparx gets you everyday health questions answered…. Read More…
Within Every Woman is a documentary which tells the untold stories of the former “Comfort Women” – a term used to describe the 200,000 women who were coerced or kidnapped into sexual slavery by the Japanese Military during WWII. The documentary focuses on the aftermath of such atrocities, and the complexities involved in healing from sexual abuse. The grandmothers are strong, resilient, beautiful women. For some, it took over 50 years to come forward and tell their families and loved ones about their past…. Read More…