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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information. Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline.

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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

And when we had our little earthquake here a few years back, phone did not work tho SMS did! That’s just my opinion, and I am glad that you have a system that works for you! Its a cool system we think for sharing information and compensation. Dollars and attention in the mix.

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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Plurk introduced a comment system which helps create a conversational feel. Brightkite: Email and SMS – mobile web is definitely the wave of the future. There’s been much talk about people gaming the system and worrying about their karma, thus plurking about them losing (or gaining) karma points.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the other hand, Plurk is really new, and thus, Twitter wins on followers (and the fact that mobile access — via SMS — totally owns), so the Plurk discussions (for now) are at a minimum. love the commenting system, and emoticon also get karma more higher then i will get more emoticon and became NIRVANA.Yippie.

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6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And since we first covered it in April of 2006 it has gone completely free. When we first reviewed 2or3things Blastfeed in late 2006 it appeared to be shaping up as a good consumer filtering alternative to Feed Rinse. ZapTXT also powers email, IM, and SMS alerts for sites like TheStreet.com. not via an RSS reader).

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