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More links to blog posts about SpotCrime:

• LifeHacker: SpotCrime Maps Local Illegal Happenings
• Mashable: SpotCrime: Mapping The Criminal Landscape
• KillerStartups: SpotCrime.com - How Safe Is Your Neighborhood?

See our original blog post on SpotCrime getting TechCrunched.

The iPhone application we recently developed for SpotCrime just got written up in a TechCrunch article at http://tinyurl.com/5hnx38.

The iPhone application itself is available at spotcrime.com/iphone.php.

The iPhone application has been a success so far and is being used by thousands of iPhone users every day. It is currently the seventh most popular travel application in the Apple iPhone Travel Webapps directory.

Developing this application was a fun project for us because we were able to learn the “ins and outs” of the custom programming functions available to iPhone web applications. Some neat features of the webapp:

• Rotating your phone will cause the map to go full-screen
• User-friendly buttons for navigating the map: the buttons are round and somewhat transparent, making the most of the small screen
• Easily navigable list of cities for which crimes are reported

For more information and more images, see our portfolio entry for the SpotCrime iPhone webapp.

SmartLogic Solutions has rolled out its first Facebook application. CampusCourses provides a way for students to list courses they are taking. They may also search courses at their school by course name and number, professor, or by their friends.

Searchles - a Web 2.0 social search engine - has just released Searchles TV! Searchles TV is a video player that lets you combine multiple videos in any order using multiple sources like YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, Blip.tv or Grouper and play them through one viewer either at Searchles or on your blog or website without the hassle of using editing software.

We at SmartLogic Solutions created the actual video player itself using Adobe Flash.

Below is an example of the video player in action:

Some highlights of the video player:

• The volume slider is a lot more usable than YouTube’s volume slider.
• The position seeker is also a lot more usable. You can actually drag it around and the picture updates in real-time.
• You can play multiple videos in one player! Click the “menu” button on the player to view the playlist. You can click the little play/pause buttons to move to any video.

More information / related links:

• View more information on the Searchles Video Player in SmartLogic Solution’s Portfolio
• Searchles blog post regarding the launch of Searchles TV
• Searchles TV