Mashup: Gulf Oil Spill Tweets from SE United States
A map mashup showing the latest tweets of the BP gulf oil spill from SE United States.
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Firefox add-on. Quickly look people up by highlighting their full name on a page and then right-clicking to search for them across Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook and more.
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Mashup of Google Maps, Virtual Earth with many other APIs. Ext.js is used to make user interface intuitive. It lets you search for hotels, photos, restaurants, wifi spots, local news/blogs, events,...
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Track reports of eminent domain law abuse in the United States. Also includes pinpoints for related events: rallies, meeting, protests, etc.
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