Tag: disasters

Donate to Hurricane Sandy Relief While Using iTunes
Apple and the American Red Cross have partnered to help superstorm Sandy survivors by adding a donation page to iTunes this morning. From the iTunes homepage, you can access t...
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“We Are Ok” Is Facebook’s Top Term Following Hurricane Sandy
Yesterday, as the east coast was preparing for Hurricane Sandy's landfall, FEMA sent out a few tweets suggesting that those affected by the storm...
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Asteroid DA14 Misses Earth In Animated, Data-Backed Video
For those of you still fretting that Earth will get smacked with a 40 meter-wide asteroid next year even though...
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Google, World Bank To Improve Disaster Preparedness In Developing Countries
Within a generation, we will no longer leave the house. We won't need to. Mobility will become obsolete. Similar to our regard to the appendix and nipples on males, feet will becom...
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See The Japan Earthquake / Tsunami Damage Through Before & After Street View
Back in March, a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami caused massive damage to a large part of eastern Japan. A few months later, Google...
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Tropical Storm Katia Tracks in Irene’s Footsteps, Finds Disaster Fatigue on Twitter
Hurricane season is far from over, but it seems as though people are already feeling the effects - I'm talking about disaster fatigue. A complicated concept, it involves any of...
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Mississippi Flood Photos from Google Maps Satellite Imagery
Google has put together a whole bunch of data and imagery from the Mississippi floods on Google Maps. On Google's Lat Long Blog, Pete Giencke of the Google Crisis Response Team...
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Social Media Disasters: The Do’s and the Don’ts
There are numerous examples in which companies really messed up on social media. For instance, remember...
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Google Steps In After San Bruno Explosion
Google often steps in when disaster strikes, helping people in Chile, China, Haiti, and Pakistan (among many other places) to date.  And now that fire's claimed several liv...
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BusinessWire Offers Free Haiti-Related Press Release Distribution
Popular press release distribution site BusinessWire, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, is offering its services for free to compan...
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Google Launches Relief Site To Help Haiti
Survivors of the earthquake in Haiti are going to receive help from Google in a big way.  On a new Support Disaster Relief site, Google's released satellite imagery of the...
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