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‘Snowl: Unified Messaging In Your (Firefox) Browser’
For all you road warriors out there this one might prove useful. TechCrunch has a story about a new release from Mozilla Labs called Snowl: “Mozilla Labs announced a new project today called Snowl....
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InSTEDD needs an iPhone developer for a great App
Eduardo Jezierski over at InSTEDD is looking for a developer to help build an SMS GeoChat iPhone App. It seems that SMS GeoChat has begun to draw some attention even though it is pre-Beta. For those...
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Polka’s Emergency Card iPhone App
Mike Kirkwood over at Polka.com is our hero of the day. Mike responded to the request I posted yesterday asking for iPhone developers for a worthwhile SMS GeoChat App that InSTEDD is working on. I...
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Present.ly enters the corporate Twitter arena
Previously, we mentioned Yammer as a possible tool for corporate or organizational communications for emergency response scenarios. Now there is Present.ly which apparently ‘means right now’ and...
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MSF + SMS = ‘Surgeon saves boy’s life by text’
David Nott volunteers for a month a year with the medical charity For the last few days I have been having a spirited discussion with Janet Ginsburg of InSTEDD offshoot Trackernews over at Paul...
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FrontlineSMS and Telecoms Sans Frontieres are making it happen in Niger
These days the success stories coming out of the humanitarian/tech community are few and far between. There are many apps and groups struggling to put out a workable product, one that does actually...
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FrontlineSMS introduces FrontlineForms and changes the game for all of us.
Wow, the group of talented developers over at FrontlineSMS have just released what could be a game changer for the aid industry: FrontlineForms. Now your IT person, using the FrontlineSMS system, can...
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Why microblogging might prove a good fit for aid agencies
I apologize for neglecting my duties but I have been busy making arrangements for an upcoming trip. I’ll fill you in on the details in the next few days but for now I want to point out my little find...
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Is Laconica the best microblogging platform for aid agencies?
Following my last post Rob Allen left a comment pointing me toward the open source microblogging platform Laconica. I skipped right past Laconi.ca a week or so ago but thanks to the redirect I have...
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Update: Satellite to Twitter now does KML and embeds
Nick Jaffe of Satellite to Twitter and Big Oceans fame wrote me a few days ago: Hey Jon, All is well – I’ve sailed down to Hawaii, and will continue on to Palmyra & the south Pacific this week...
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FrontlineSMS and Telecoms Sans Frontieres are making it happen in Niger
These days the success stories coming out of the humanitarian/tech community are few and far between. There are many apps and groups struggling to put out a workable product, one that does actually...
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FrontlineSMS introduces FrontlineForms and changes the game for all of us.
Wow, the group of talented developers over at FrontlineSMS have just released what could be a game changer for the aid industry: FrontlineForms. Now your IT person, using the FrontlineSMS system, can...
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Why microblogging might prove a good fit for aid agencies
I apologize for neglecting my duties but I have been busy making arrangements for an upcoming trip. I’ll fill you in on the details in the next few days but for now I want to point out my little find...
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Is Laconica the best microblogging platform for aid agencies?
Following my last post Rob Allen left a comment pointing me toward the open source microblogging platform Laconica. I skipped right past Laconi.ca a week or so ago but thanks to the redirect I have...
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Update: Satellite to Twitter now does KML and embeds
Nick Jaffe of Satellite to Twitter and Big Oceans fame wrote me a few days ago: Hey Jon, All is well – I’ve sailed down to Hawaii, and will continue on to Palmyra & the south Pacific this week...
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