Public Data Ferrets, Topic Meadow, Mobile Nube, MoodThingy, Nonstop Honolulu, and other Knight News Challenge entrants

LINK: newschallenge.tumblr.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | March 14, 2012

The deadline for applications for the new-look Knight News Challenge is just three days away. Here are links to all the 200-plus entries so far.

A few that jump out for something beyond having amusing names: Piano Media (past Nieman Lab subject, Mitteleuropa paywall provider), ThinkUp (Gina Trapani/Anil Dash social media analysis tool), BookBrewer (from past KNC winner Dan Pacheco), Hypothes.is (recent Kickstarter success), and Unicef (for a youth-led mapping tool).

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