FEMA isn’t screwing around this time. There’s a hurricane hitting the gulf coast, and they are not going to take the blame if things go wrong.
They’ve evacuated 2 million people, for example.
And now, they’ve got widgets, which have been created by the Department of Homeland Security. Earlier this evening, MySpace says, Homeland Security phoned MySpace’s Chief Security Officer, Hemanshu Nigam who then called President (and hacker extraordinaire) Tom Anderson to quickly fast-track the project. Within a couple of hours Tom had posted a message to all MySpace users with links to information contained in the widget.
I’ve installed the FEMA widget on my MySpace page (sidebar, on the left, please excuse the music but it’s how I roll). It helps people locate victimes by directing them to FEMA’s National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System, allows people to make donations, and tracks the approach of Hurricane Hanna. It will be available in both English and Spanish.
If you want to install the widget on your own MySpace page, here are the details. These are actually simple IFRAME widgets so they can be installed on most sites.
Honestly, that widget doesnt it seem very helpful. Its just links? Much rather see some dynamic content cycling through it.
or spend the time flying in more helicopters, bottled water and blankets. or whatever people need in hurricanes.
OKey, i just want to claim: i must give up myspace!!
No reason, too hard to use it for me:)
when i want to upload my own video to it, always hints: failed!!
This time FEMA is ready. I doubt if FEMA would ever make that Hurricane Katrina mistake by not evacuating people in time.
yep. and they have widgets too.
This is sooooooooo lame. Give me a freakin break. Does it really take Homeland Security, MySpace’s Chief Security Officer and President to embed some useless static links via an iFrame? Wow!
MySpace should have interns do this crap while the rest of the folks try to get ideas from Facebook’s new slick user interface or something. Lame!
“You’re doing a hell of a job Tommy”
To make those widgets were a good idea on FEMA’s part…:-)
http://www.ShawnDrewry.com
The cost of this fabulous widgets design? A mere $2 Billion dollars, pretty good eh? I’d like to see you do better…what’s that? You grandma can do better? Oh DID do better, well good for her. J/K I hope it helps out with the aftermath.
Not impressed. If it helps someone, great. But it should be more dynamic information.
Hurricane tips for your home:
http://afewtips...8407dc37538c644
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mike how come you didn’t write about google in this article? you must have forgotten. here, i’ll do it for you. google google google google.
Is this what it takes to rally people together, fucking widgets? Come on. I’ll be putting a poll on this at tinycrunch, i want to get a number on this.
Poll Is Up
happy birthay google
It helps people locate victimes by directing them to FEMA’s National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System, allows people to make donations, and tracks the approach of Hurricane Hanna. It will be available in both English and Spanish.
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