{"id":1598,"date":"2009-12-05T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T20:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:25:01","slug":"10-balloonies-geocaching-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2009\/12\/05\/10-balloonies-geocaching-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Balloonies – Geocaching for Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Balloonies – Groundspeak’s DARPA War Room<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Groundspeak<\/a><\/p>\n

To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Internet, DARPA is hosting the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems. The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States.<\/p>\n

Groundspeak is the owner of Geocaching.com<\/a> and if they win this competition, Groundspeak has pledged to donate $10k on top of the $40k prize money to charity.<\/p>\n

As of this writing, they are half way there. They’ve located 5 of the 10 balloons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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