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The Cleanweb Takes Off

This past weekend in New York, a group of high tech companies, venture investors, hackers, college students held the second Cleanweb Hackathon -- a gathering where software developers and serial entrepreneurs, fueled by coffee and burritos -- or similar fare -- stay up one, two or more nights writing code for apps that just may change the world.

Hackathons have been held on subjects as diverse as operating systems and disaster relief as in Random Hacks of Kindness.

By Sunday afternoon, the teams had developed applications that compared the energy efficiency of every municipal building in New York (www.honestbuildings.com) collected your daily travel patterns from your smart phone's movement to recommend ways to slim your travel, calculated the cost of installing solar on your home by typing your address into Google maps, notified you or your spouse by email that an appliance at home was drawing excessive power and provided a link to click it off, and turned your thermostat up or down based on the distance of your phone from your home.

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