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