Americas Most Promising Startups - Business Week

I thought some of them seemed very useful. I liked the invention to lift manhole covers (http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0627_fresh_entrepren...) and the BidMyCleaning.com idea (http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0627_fresh_entrepren...).

This is from a year ago and the startups... I'm not too impressed. Blog backup company, social networks...