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Federated Microblogging, SMS and Location

The ideas represented here stem from thoughts on a post I did on my personal blog called, “Microblogging, Location and Emergencies” about the broader scope and coverage of mobile social networks in places like Africa.

“I don’t want to just get updates from random strangers in my locale. I want to only receive the ones that are “important” to me. I want to be notified when there is an emergency, major traffic jam or something else pertinent to me. “

It’s about the ability to have multiple types of social microblogging and mobile networks anywhere in the world plug into something greater in times of emergency. A way for anonymous users to take part. It also talks to even bigger ideas and the greater impact in Africa of a real social mobile network that can connect people using only mobile phones and do it as needed.

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By Erik Hersman
December 23, 2008

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  1. Google Latitude: Consumerizing Location and Emergencies - The Ushahidi Blog linked to this post on February 18, 2009

    [...] the way). It’s a mobile social network with a focus on location. See my earlier thoughts on microblogging and crisis, and the official Google blog post on [...]

  2. Ushahidi Tech Meeting | White African linked to this post on March 23, 2009

    [...] be working on in the coming year. This is where we discussed how Ushahidi can fit into the microblogging and mobile social networks, Insta-wikis, Swift River and how we can work with voice and other projects like Huridocs and [...]

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