I spent last night in Melbourne for the official launch of ActNow, a site that Massive built for the Inspire foundation. ActNow is a website for young people to learn more about global and local issues and find things they can do about them.

I've put a lot of time into this site since we started talking about it last year, so it was great to unwind a bit and party with some of the people involved. Although I'm still feeling the effects of the Orange Martinis with Leisa.

The launch event was great too, all the people creating content and using the site are really enthusiastic and excited. It's a nice change working on something that actually effects peoples lives rather than just making money for a company. Inspire have a fantastic group of young people working on creating content for the website and it's going to be really exciting to watch how it all grows.

From a techy perspective, the site is an ASP.NET application, written in C# and has an SQL Server database. There is some cool flash and XML integration and lots of RSS.

Grant beat me to blogging about this too, but he did leave earlier than me :)

Update: Leisa has lots to say here.