Topic: apps
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Contests
Announcing the Semi-Finalists for the 2013 AppMyCity! Prize
An international mobile application contest from the New Cities Foundation.
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Contests
Meet the Judges for the AppMyCity! Prize
There's still time to enter the international mobile application contest from the New Cities Foundation.
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Toilet Tuesday
App Developers Turn Their Eye to Global Sanitation
Participants of the "International Sanitation Hackathon" have some promising ideas to fight disease and death caused by poor sanitation.
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Contests
Announcing the AppMyCity! Prize
We've teamed up with the New Cities Foundation and Google to award $5,000 to the best new urban app from around the world.
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12 Fresh Ideas for Transforming the Places We Live With Open Data
A few of the 886 proposals from the Knight Foundation's latest open government news challenge.
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Maps
Mapping the Noxious Ozone Plumes Over Houston
A new app from Texas researchers shows how clouds of lung-pummeling ozone move through Houston neighborhoods.
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Maps
Why It's Nearly Impossible to Make GPS Work for India
A "classic example of copy-pasting a first world solution in an emerging economy."
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Finally, a Good Reason to Send Somebody a Photo of Your Genitals
The "STD Triage" app lets you email pictures of your "intimate problem" to a panel of dermatologists.
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Wanted: An App That Calculates Wait Times Straight to Your Airport Gate
A group of entrepreneurs are working on technology that could vastly improve the universally terrible experience of airports.
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The Best Parking App We've Ever Seen
How risky is it to run inside for that cup of coffee without feeding the meter? SpotAgent will figure that out for you.
