#fivepoundapp

Two quick updates about WildlifeNearYou. First up, I gave a talk about the site at £5 app, my favourite Brighton evening event which celebrates side projects and the joy of Making Stuff. I talked about the site's genesis on a fort, crowdsourcing photo ratings, how we use Freebase and DBpedia and how integrating with Flickr's machine tags gave us a powerful location API for free. Here's the video of the talk, courtesy of Ian Oszvald:

£5 App #22 WildLifeNearYou by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe from IanProCastsCoUk on Vimeo.

Last night I spoke at the £5 App event about Pistach.io. 

Ribot sponsored the event by providing beer (with smart design process packaging) & also Qiking the event.