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18th November 2008 - Link Blog

Hack Day at the Guardian. Video of the demos from the first Hack Day at the Guardian. I presented a crowdsourcing app I used to collect annotations for an SVG map of the UK.

Posted 18th November 2008 at 5:58 pm

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