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January 16, 2008
Developer Spotlight: Not Just A Number homicide mashup
In YDN Theater this week, we're featuring an interview with Sean Connelly and Katy Newton, creators of the award-winning Not Just A Number homicide mashup produced in partnership with The Oakland Tribune newspaper.
The Oakland Tribune hosts this amazing community-driven service that attempts to humanize the violence occurring on Oakland's streets. There were 127 homicides officially reported in the city of Oakland, California in 2007 and 148 in 2006. The web site serves the victims' families and helps to tell their story which is often lost in the traditional media process.
Sean and Katy built what was initially intended to be a simple crime mashup into a deeply interactive Flash user experience. They leveraged the Yahoo! Maps Flash API and Yahoo! Geocoder.
"We saw how easy it was to integrate the mapping service from Yahoo!. It made more sense coming from a newspaper business where we're always looking to cut corners. And it was so easy. It took me like 5 minutes to get everything in there. It was so simple."
In this short video by Ricky Montalvo and Matt McAlister, you can hear where the idea came from and get some insight into how they built the site.
Posted at January 16, 2008 10:58 AM
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Yay Katy & Sean!! :)Good Job!
Posted by: dakotta at January 17, 2008 10:44 AM
nice work. we know how hard you worked, but you made it look easy. now try returning a phone call. hope all is well.
Posted by: jeff at January 18, 2008 12:19 AM
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