p2pnet news | P2P:- Still on the devastating California fires, “Today my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected,” says Allen Stern on Center Networks.

But he does more than just offer commiserations.

“The pictures show a scene straight out of a war movie,” he says, going on:

“I thought it would be interesting to look at how the popular social media services are being used to report on the fires.

“Putting the various sites together shows an almost live look at what’s going on across the region.

“One thing I do notice is that there is no central keyword or search term to find everything, everyone lists their content in a different way. An idea would be to create “crisis centers” and aggregate the content together for easy locating.”

To give you a taste, “Flickr is adding one image per minute on the top tags for the fire,” he says, and “YouTube is showing several thousand videos when you aggregate the various searches.”

Google news, “keeps track of the news from sites that they consider news worthy” and, ” Google blog search includes basically everyone else. The LA Times has a Google Maps mashup showing where the fires are burning (hat tip to Robert Scoble). Another mashup of San Diego allowing GPS and coordinate submissions.”

What of Facebook and and MySpace?

Nothing.

But, “Wikipedia has a great overview page of the various fires, locations and links to news.”

Slashdot it!

Also See:
devastating California fires - Celebrities escape California wild firess, October 24, 2007
Center Networks - Firestorm 2.0 - Using Social Media Services to Track The California Fires, October 22, 2007

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