Located at Virginia Commonwealth University (the NCAA Final Four underdog), the Illuminated Ventures Project is a student-driven new media incubator co-op that uses the web to engineer ideas and broker dreams for social good .

1.  Why is the Illuminated Ventures Project (IllVP) important?

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Sometimes I rely on my computer so much I want to hug it. It's the repository for my fondest memories, the source of friendly social interactions and a hub of productivity.

But when my Internet's down or computer is running slow, life stops. Sometimes, as… Read the rest

Seth Godin is telling us to create the status quo.

You don't have to follow the formula or rules set by whoever came before you. You don't have to wait to be told the next steps, he says in his new book Poke the Box,… Read the rest

You've got to love the ingenuity coming out of the latest apps and websites that are making our lives easier and connecting us to golden opportunities. Here are 15 websites to keep your eye on this year.

If you've gotten to experience any of these… Read the rest

If only your world history class were as simple as a 100-second video.

Using geographical coordinates and dates linked in Wikipedia articles, Gareth Lloyd and Tom Martin constructed their own version of a quick visual world history lesson, showing us how world events evolved from… Read the rest

Klout is the new Groupon. Everybody’s asking about Klout scores. We hear about Klout swag, Klout Kribs, and Klout parties. Every major blogger – perhaps to beef up their Klout score – is doing a story on… Klout.

And earlier this week, I saw a job seeker claiming he was denied an interview for a social media internship because his “Klout score was too low.” Then he asked, “Is there a way to game my Klout score?”

On Monday, the "blogging is dead" conversation sprung back to life with a New York Times article passing the torch to Facebook and Twitter, saying users -- especially among the ages 12 to 17 -- prefer making quick updates on those sites to the more… Read the rest

If you thought GoTo Meeting and WebEx were your only options for web conferencing, a new player has entered the field. Zipcast, unveiled last week to the public, is the brainchild of the 4-year-old presentation-sharing site SlideShare. And it's free!

SlideShare, tapped by 45 million… Read the rest

Over Thanksgiving, I purchased Google TV with the hopes of bringing Internet videos and TV-episode sharing sites like Hulu to my fingertips. Why be confined to a few TV channels when the web offers so much more? I imagined sitting in the comforts of my… Read the rest

The right idea in the right place at the right time can cure disease, topple governments and put human beings on the moon.

That's pretty damn cool. Why aren't more people innovating their days away?!

Well, here's the thing. Although many young people feel… Read the rest