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05/23/2007, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Speaker:
Rob Curley, Vice President, Product Development, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.
Hailed as the "hyper-local hero" by Fast Company magazine, Rob Curley is using open-source technology and an open-source mentality to keep newspapers relevant in an age of rapidly changing roles for mainstream media. He's getting newspapers to think about creating relationships with their readers: on his sites, users can compare historical home prices, street by street or neighborhood by neighborhood; receive a text alert about a Little League rainout, the weather, or the fishing report; click on a map to assess local hurricane damage; chat with the subject of a story or its reporter; check out a weekly high-school sports roundup and daily news video. One of Rob's first Django-powered projects for The Washington Post -- "onBeing" -- brings ordinary people's stories to washingtonpost.com via interactive video.
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