He thinks, “Oh, there’s something called the Google Place API. I could just take all those incoming messages and visualize that in a map.” Once he got the visualization done, he found out, “Oh, you can just report on the map,” which is not a new idea. It’s Ushahidi. It’s exactly the same idea as Ushahidi. Then he just code it up in a couple hours.

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