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This brief presentation was given at GeomobLDN in November 2011. It includes some of the thinking that inspired it and a demo of what it is at this time.
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what’s happening near you
How it started
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...blah blah platforms blah blah open blah blah generative networks
Post
Adjust
Offers
Events
Flag
Nearby people
Qualitative
voting
Collaborative updating
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Background
Brand
Front end: jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile. Twitter’s Bootstrap.
Environment: PHP using Zend and MySQL.
Search: Solr.
Read API: Solr.
Location: JavaScript API and Geocoding API.
Fonts: Google. Cabin is the primary typeface.
Deployment: github, dbdeploy and Jenkins.
Hosting: EC2 and S3. We also cache PHP using APC.
Analytics: Chartbeat and Google Analytics.
Media: embed.ly.
Content: People.
Moderation: People.
