6 January 09 It's time for our weekly bucket update! After a couple of weeks of recruiting frenzy there has only been little movement during the last week. Slowly, but surely, the "Water For Dixie" project is reaching for the crown.

5 January 09 Are you using Amazee frequently? Interested in Social Collaboration and social action in general? Do you care about how Amazee is going to be developed in the future? Well, you can be a part of all that: Just join the development project!

4 January 09 After sobering up from celebrating and welcoming the new year, it is time to ask ourselves: What does the year hold for us? What are we expecting personally, what is going to happen in the world? Mark January 20th for Change!

2 January 09 It is only a little over three weeks to go until the first Startup Camp Switzerland is going to take place. And already there are far over a hundred participants signed up for it. The list is almost complete, but there might be still a couple of more seats.

31 December 08 There is a child in each and every one of us, but there is also a time for us to grow up. That's the time when we get rid of old things representing childhood and youth.

30 December 08 We are so excited! A lot has been happening in the race for the bucket over the last week, just like the weeks before. But is it safe to say that there is one favorite? It's still more than three weeks to go before the deadline, a lot can still happen!

29 December 08 We have heard a lot about the South African village of Dixie, thanks to Amazee user Graham. A group of helpers have taken the kids to the movies, celebrated Christmas with the whole village, and now they want to supply water taps for every home!

27 December 08 Christmas is over, and with the inauguration of a new president in the USA just a couple of weeks away, it is time to straighten out old bills. For some this means: Bush has to pay!

24 December 08 Today is the deadline. Depending on what country you live in, Santa Claus is going to bump down the chimney either this afternoon or tonight. What is on your wishlist? A better tomorrow? A cleaner environment? World peace?

23 December 08 Did we say before that competition was heating up around the Amazee bucket? Forget it! Now things are getting wild! There are several projects in the runnings, but only the top three can get a piece of the USD 10'000 in prize money!

22 December 08 These days the Roma Rights Network could celebrate a big victory. Not one of their own, but for Roma worldwide last Friday was a very important day: Construction work on the Memorial to the murdered Roma started in Germany's capital Berlin.

21 December 08 Do you remember the Kids at Dixie? It was one of our most prominent projects of the summer and early fall, bringing the children of a small South African village to the movies!

19 December 08 Here's a bold proposition: Combine the forces of a peace corps and regular physicians and improve the health of communities around the world! There is a new project on Amazee which proposes just that. Can it work?

18 December 08 Have you ever wondered exactly what it is you can do with your project magazine? How you can add a little color to your project or how you can make it look unique? Our tech head Markus has put together a project for demonstration purposes only!

17 December 08 Have you ever wanted a TV channel with not just glossy high-end documentaries about the spectacular wild-life of let's say, Africa? Or would you rather have the real deal, be able to see what is going on in a wild-life reserve on a day-to-day basis?

16 December 08 It's getting hot in here! We are amazed that the competition for the Amazee Bucket is already heating up at such an early stage. With five weeks to go, until we give out 10'000 USD to the biggest projects on Amazee we have a new front-runner.

15 December 08 Have you grown out of your Lego bricks? Then waste no time and join the great Lego exchange project! The goal is to bring all the lonely Lego bricks, Bionicles, Duplos, etc. into the hands of children who have little or no access to these tremendous toys.

13 December 08 Have you ever come across the expression "perpetual beta"? Perpetual beta has come to be associated with web 2.0 services like Amazee, in which constant, user-oriented updates build the foundation of the product development.

12 December 08 Imagine the year 2019. Will there be a rich diversity of small, medium and large social media? Or are we going to live in a digital desert with one big facebook and one big Google silo? Will you feel closer to your digital tribe than to your family?

11 December 08 The first StartupCamp especially for Swiss startup businesses is taking place end of January 2009 in Basel. It is organized via Amazee and the participation spots are going fast. So, if you want to join, you have to be quick.

10 December 08 There is an important international commemoration day today. Sixty years ago, the United Nations have declared and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is still a lot of work to do, but there are a couple of promising projects.

9 December 08 It is a little over six weeks to go, but already there is a lot going on in the race for the Amazee Bucket, which contains 10,000 US-$ for the three biggest projects. Several users have stated that they want to go for the bucket, so let's take a look.

8 December 08 What do you know about Eritrea? That country in Africa on the Red Sea. Not much? Probably poor? Probably somewhat war-torn? Right, that's about it. A brilliant example about how we like to ignore what doesn't affect us. Well, check this project!

6 December 08 What is beauty to you? Being natural or being like Beyoncé? Beauty, as it is promoted by most media today has little to do with being natural, unfortunately. Ruth Rogers now wants to celebrate beauty in a realistic way. In a theatre play!

5 December 08 As we all know, there are two big political parties in the United States, the Democratic and the Republican Party. Both of these parties can be broken down into local committees, one of these has now formed a project on Amazee.

4 December 08 Do you remember the Kids of Dixie? Amazee user Graham Wallington initiated a project on Amazee to take all the children of the South African village of Dixie to go to the movies. Now he wants to celebrate Christmas with the whole village!

3 December 08 The festive season is a time of meeting (or avoiding) the family, of over-eating and of too much time on your hands. Why not read a book? A big, fat one for that matter? Scott Cobb suggests we all read Roberto Bolaño's posthumous "2666".

2 December 08 If the death penalty is just or cruel, right or wrong, has been discussed at length at least since the age of the Aufklärung. For a group of Americans, the case is quite clear. The death penalty must be abolished.

1 December 08 Today, the 1st of December 2008, is World AIDS Day. On this day the whole world remembers those that have been killed by the disease, but it also serves as a landmark in our calendar to raise awareness for the HIV/AIDS issue.

30 November 08 As we look around this world, as it gets more and more complex day by day, we see that things are going wrong all over the planet. Economic downturns, international terrorism and ongoing destruction of the Earth keep us asking: What is the answer?