[Balloon] balloon looks old

please, please, lets a) portect the wiki form spamers
(using captcha, or a login like "balloon" pwd "balloon"...)
b) let us knwo what happend to the idea to provide a "cheaper", versatile and open Board (Balloon3).
c) explain what differntates balloon from stuff like gumstix.org or www.toradex.com's colibir.
tia & sorry