DAILY GRINDER: Local Voting App Featured in PW Wins Award
The web app developed by Philly Voter activist Faye Anderson, Yo! Philly Votes, recently won 1st place in the first round of Hacks For Democracy, which sought to judge applications that could improve the fall election. Yo! Philly Votes was previously featured in Philadelphia Weekly as one of the best election apps this year. The app allows users to easily report...
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New SEPTA App Will Modernize Waiting For Bus
As noted by Technically Philly this morning and, later, a SEPTA news release, the Authority has unleashed a new horror upon modern society: A smartphone app that shows you when your train/bus is coming by way of Google maps. It’s called TransitView and, according to TP: [T]he web app relies on GPS-enabled SEPTA buses and trolleys to track precise positioning...
Continue ReadingPhilly Fraud: There’s an App For That
Your trusty city controller, Alan Butkovitz, took to the press conference circuit today, introducing the hippiest Philly phone application this side of PunkStar Studios’ ‘Septa Transit App.’ It’s called “Philly Watchdog” and it allows citizens to “instantly report incidents of fraud, waste or abuse directly to my Fraud Unit,” Butkovitz said at...
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