Share it Live – Site and API

Share-it Live, an experiment in citizen journalism, was born out of a company hack-day and launched in the spring of ’09. The service was designed around an iPhone application that allowed a person to share a photo and description of a news worthy event. If the submission was interesting the news desk might carry it… in theory at least. The iPhone application used a publicly available API and the website made content submitted through the app available online. Images were geocoded and scaled when uploaded.

I wrote the website and api as two separate applications that shared a core data model. The apps leveraged part of an in-house web framework, with original code that embraced a restful and resource oriented architecture.

Some of the cool things the service saw included photos shared from outside of the Neverland Ranch when Michael Jackson passed away, the mid-western blizzard of 2009/2010 and random images from all over the world.

http://www.shareitlive.com
http://api.shareitlive.com

Versions: 1.0, 1.1

  • Features:
  • playlist and player
  • social sharing via Gigya
  • Tech:
  • php
  • mysql
  • google maps
  • jquery
  • Open ID
  • Other contributors:
  • Jake Behrens: iPhone App
  • Tommy Yi: Graphic Design and CSS
  • Jay Spear: Pep Squad