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]
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
Ushahidiwww.ushahidi.com
Reporting and mapping post-election violence in Kenya
via web, email and cell phone texting.
(1st place winner)
Ushahidi home page
Ushahidi Incident Report Page
Ushahidi’s South African version
My Green Mapswww.greenmap.org/ogm
Helping people identify, share, and act on
local sustainable living, nature, social and cultural resources.
Baltimore Greenmap (metro view)
Baltimore Greenmap (zoomed in)
End Mountaintop Removalwww.ilovemountains.org
Personal impact visualization and resource center
for mountaintop removal coal mining.
“What’s my connection?”
Degrees of Influence
Maplight.orgwww.maplight.org
Mapping campaign contributions to compare candidates and track special-interest giving.
Maplight.org
Maplight.org
Maplight.org
Asset Mapswww.assetmap.org/uganda
Aggregating and presenting info about needs and resources
in post-conflict northern Uganda.
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.
Knowmore’s Amazon.com page 1
Knowmore’s Amazon.com page 2
Knowmore’s Amazon.com page 3
American Apparel’s home page(with Firefox extension installed)
Knowmore’s American Apparel page
Google Home Page(with Firefox extension installed)
Google Search Results(with Firefox extension installed)
Metavidwww.metavid.org
(http://metavid.ucsc.edu)
Wiki-based availability of US House and Senate floor video footage.
Metavid: Search Results Page
Metavid: Input
• Input– Captured Cspan footage– Closed captioning– OCR to identify speaker– Metadata about speakers, etc.– Wiki content• Including corrections to transcripts
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”
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
... and just a couple more
Social Actionswww.socialactions.com
Aggregating peer-to-peer social change campaigns.
3rd place winner.
Social Action
Partners
Ask Your Lawmakerwww.askyourlawmaker.org
New service of Capital News Connection,
enabling individuals to submit (and vote on) questions to ask Washington representatives.
Ask Your Lawmaker home page
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