http://simonwillison.net/2010-04-11T20:42:11+00:00Simon Willison2010-04-11T20:42:11+00:002010-04-11T20:42:11+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/11/wired/#atom-tag

<p>Two quick updates about <a href="http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/">WildlifeNearYou</a>. First up, I gave a talk about the site at <a href="http://fivepoundapp.com/">£5 app</a>, my favourite Brighton evening event which celebrates side projects and the joy of Making Stuff. I talked about the site's <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/12/wildlifenearyou/">genesis on a fort</a>, <a href="http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/best/">crowdsourcing photo ratings</a>, how we use <a href="http://www.freebase.com/">Freebase</a> and <a href="http://dbpedia.org/">DBpedia</a> and how integrating with Flickr's machine tags gave us <a href="http://code.flickr.com/blog/2010/02/10/5-questions-for-simon-willison/">a powerful location API for free</a>. Here's the video of the talk, courtesy of <a href="http://ianozsvald.com/2010/03/31/22nd-5-app-write-up-for-wildlife-plaques-robots-go-and-golf-gadgets/" title="22nd £5 App Write-up for WildLife, Plaques, Robots, Go and Golf Gadgets">Ian Oszvald</a>:</p> <object width="450" height="255"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10578232&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10578232&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="450" height="255"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10578232">£5 App #22 WildLifeNearYou by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user707645">IanProCastsCoUk</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>Secondly, I'm excited to note that WildlifeNearYou spin-off <a href="http://owlsnearyou.com/">OwlsNearYou.com</a> is featured in UK Wired magazine's Wired / Tired / Expired column... and we're Wired!</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/simon/4511451405/"><img src="http://simonwillison.net/static/2010/wired-owls-small.jpg" alt="Wired / Tired / Expired column from May 2010 Wired UK" width="450" height="176" /></a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/api">api</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/crowdsourcing">crowdsourcing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fivepoundapp">fivepoundapp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/freebase">freebase</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/natalie-downe">natalie-downe</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/owlsnearyou">owlsnearyou</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/my-talks">my-talks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wildlifenearyou">wildlifenearyou</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wired">wired</a></p>

2007-09-12T12:12:39+00:002007-09-12T12:12:39+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/12/app/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://fivepoundapp.com/">£5 app</a></strong></p> Monthly Brighton meetup for people interested in building (and maybe selling) lightweight software with 1-2 man teams. Nat and I went along last night and really enjoyed it. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/brighton">brighton</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/events">events</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fivepoundapp">fivepoundapp</a></p>