Astadia, a pure-play Cloud computing integrator and top Salesforce.com partner, today announced the launch of the Cloud I.T. Transformation (ITX) ROI Calculator. Results are available in British Pounds Sterling and in US Dollars at www.astadia.com/roi. Read more...

Omidyar Network today announced a planned grant of up to $1.5M to Herdict, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.  Herdict is a crowdsourcing platform that allows individuals to contribute real-time data about website accessibility and outages around the globe.  Stacy Donohue, Omidyar Network director of investments for government transparency, made the announcement during a presentation at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington D.C.  The grant will be used to build Herdict into a standalone non-profit and recruit a CEO.  Additionally, Donohue will join Herdict's board of directors. Read more...

Piryx.com, the first online fundraising tool to integrate real-time giving into social media networks, today announced it has released new widgets for Facebook that will allow leading non-profits and NGOs to leverage social media into a powerful global fundraising tool that can raise millions almost instantly. Read more...