Technologies Used
Ruby on RailsTwitter Bootstrap3
twitter api
SparkPost
HP Idol-on-demand
google plus api
linode hosting
About
There are many natural disasters occurring every second around the world. Happening is a social media platform where users can find out current disasters happening. They can sign up for alerts for disasters they specify. Team: Carlos, Berta, Egor, Darren, Nolan
Comments
Kristian Rickert - 2919d
WHAT IT IS:
New and social aggregation platform. For example if you are interested in earthquakes - they look for keywords and hit up twitter. From last night there were 15K earthquake tweets. So they use "disaster" loosely.
A service like this can help a lot of people. As soon as they tweet about a problem in one area it can be reported for another.
Value add: scrapes twitter. Also does instagram, twitter, blogs, etc. This way you can be alerted to things in this area. Using service called mention where it gathers.
Creativity: mainly saw twitter feeds aggregated. Other services mentioned but not demonstrated. 2 stars.
Design: Aggregation feed with simple design. 2 stars.
Impactfulness: can save lives. 4 stars.
Simplicity: Confusing how it can hook between services and aggregate. 2 stars.
Benjamin Dean - 2919d