{"id":3364,"date":"2010-01-15T23:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T06:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2010-01-17T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:41:09","slug":"google-app-to-help-find-information-on-people-missing-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/15\/google-app-to-help-find-information-on-people-missing-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Google App to Help Find Information on People Missing in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an application from Google that tries to locate information about missing persons in Haiti.  I don&#8217;t know how well it works, but I think Google is trying pretty hard with its considerable resources to find any data that might help.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><iframe  src=\"http:\/\/haiticrisis.appspot.com\/?small=yes\" width=350 height=300 frameborder=0 style=\"border: dashed 2px #77c\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update (1-17-2010):<\/span><\/strong> News organizations that have set up sites to help locate people are apparently opening their systems and sharing their data with the Google people-finder application.\u00a0 The MIT Center for Future Civic Media is calling on all people-finder data collectors to pool their data in one place.\u00a0 This is very smart and will drastically increase the effectiveness of the Google people-finder app.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/01\/17\/haiti-a-call-to-peop.html\">Here&#8217;s more about the call for shared data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an application from Google that tries to locate information about missing persons in Haiti. I don&#8217;t know how well it works, but I think Google is trying pretty hard with its considerable resources to find any data that might help. Update (1-17-2010): News organizations that have set up sites to help locate people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[862,861,881],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-service","tag-earthquake","tag-haiti","tag-mit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}