Innovative Find of the Year 2006: Pledge Bank

Pledge Bank (www.pledgebank.com) is a website to help people get things done that they have always wanted to do, especially things that require several people. The judges felt that the world needs a service like this - lots of good things don't happen because there aren't enough organised people to do them! PledgeBank allows users to set up pledges and then encourages other people to sign up to them.

A pledge is a statement of the form 'I will do something, if a certain number of people will help me do it'. The creator of the pledge then publicises their pledge and encourages people to sign up. It was this powerful concept behind the site that set it above the others and the reason the judges felt it should win best innovative website of 2006.