n2 y3 tidbits for net tuesday 6 3 08
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Tidbits from the 3rd annual NetSquared Conference (N2Y3)
San Jose, May 27-28, 2008[attended by Seth Horwitz & Ivan Boothe]
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Interesting Mapping applications:
• Ushahidi www.ushahidi.com
• My Green Maps www.greenmap.org/ogm• End Mountaintop Removal
www.ilovemountains.org
• Maplight.org www.maplight.org
• Asset Maps www.assetmap.org/uganda
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Ushahidiwww.ushahidi.com
Reporting and mapping post-election violence in Kenya
via web, email and cell phone texting.
(1st place winner)
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Ushahidi home page
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Ushahidi Incident Report Page
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Ushahidi’s South African version
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My Green Mapswww.greenmap.org/ogm
Helping people identify, share, and act on
local sustainable living, nature, social and cultural resources.
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Baltimore Greenmap (metro view)
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Baltimore Greenmap (zoomed in)
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End Mountaintop Removalwww.ilovemountains.org
Personal impact visualization and resource center
for mountaintop removal coal mining.
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“What’s my connection?”
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Degrees of Influence
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Maplight.orgwww.maplight.org
Mapping campaign contributions to compare candidates and track special-interest giving.
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Maplight.org
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Maplight.org
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Maplight.org
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Asset Mapswww.assetmap.org/uganda
Aggregating and presenting info about needs and resources
in post-conflict northern Uganda.
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Knowmore.orgwww.knowmore.org
Firefox extension affecting:• Site home pages• Google home page• Google search results• (Amazon results)
Alerting users when they visit or search for companies with unethical practices.
2nd place winner.
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Knowmore’s Amazon.com page 1
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Knowmore’s Amazon.com page 2
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Knowmore’s Amazon.com page 3
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American Apparel’s home page(with Firefox extension installed)
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Knowmore’s American Apparel page
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Google Home Page(with Firefox extension installed)
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Google Search Results(with Firefox extension installed)
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Metavidwww.metavid.org
(http://metavid.ucsc.edu)
Wiki-based availability of US House and Senate floor video footage.
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Metavid: Search Results Page
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Metavid: Input
• Input– Captured Cspan footage– Closed captioning– OCR to identify speaker– Metadata about speakers, etc.– Wiki content• Including corrections to transcripts
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Metavid: search• Text – of speech (transcript)– of wiki content
• Category• Date range• Speaker– Name– Metadata, e.g.,
• “Representatives from Ohio and Michigan”• “Reps who have received over $500K from the
Pharmaceutical Industry”
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Metavid: Output
• Video – Embed clip code– Download
• Ogg Theora 300 or 900 kbs• Mpeg 4 64 kbs or 256 kbs• Mpeg 1• Mpeg 2• Flash video
• Transcripts• Wiki content
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... and just a couple more
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Social Actionswww.socialactions.com
Aggregating peer-to-peer social change campaigns.
3rd place winner.
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Social Action
Partners
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Ask Your Lawmakerwww.askyourlawmaker.org
New service of Capital News Connection,
enabling individuals to submit (and vote on) questions to ask Washington representatives.
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Ask Your Lawmaker home page