After reading the 'Wikipedia has cancer' op-ed from earlier this month I was remembering back to the earlier days of the Internet when upstart Internet projects seemed to be trying to take on every major source of power. These projects were largely 'good' and altruistic, looking foremost to change the world and often didn't include a clear business model.

Examples: Craigslist (21 years old) Wikipedia (16 years old) FireFox (15 years old) OpenOffice (14 years old) OpenStreetMap (13 years old) DuckDuckGo (7 years old) etc

Obviously, there has been tremendous successes with things like Andriod (10 years old), Raspberry Pi (5 years old), and Bitcoin (6 years old). But what's new? What's your favorite new upstart project? Or are all the brilliant minds being lured away by the page views, app downloads, and venture capital cycle?