www.crowsne.st tutorial video. how to build a real time crowdsourcing website using crows.

Tutorial of the crows crowdsourcing system , available at http://www.crowsne.st Crows is a free open source web software you can install on your website to cover events in real time. Your Crow can be set up very quickly and can includes a variety of fully customizable social media widgets:

-twitter widget that follows an unlimited amount of hashtags in real time
-flickr widget to search and display photos
youtube widget to display youtube videos from an account, a public search, or a custom playlist
-add a podcast rss feed to your site from services such as blip or libsyn
-rss news aggregator widget
-public reporting tool to allow reporting directly onto a google map in real time
-widgets communicate with each other any content from any of the widgets can be added to the map by anyone
-full mobile site works on any basic mobile device with browser for real time field reporting

Crows was produced by pittsburgh indymedia to cover the g20, and and has recieved millions of visitors and has been featured in the new york times. Check out the full system and demo sites at http://www.crowsne.st and let me know what you think!

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