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APP OF DEATH plots local fatalities on demand

A new smartphone application helpfully plots murders, and traffic fatalities, on an interactive map of the local area, showing you at a glance how many people died nearby in the last 18 months, and what killed them. The application is actually a demonstration of instant-app-factory MobileNationHQ, which reckons it took only …

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with a public api...

... you could build a realistic zombie game, use google to add real names and you'd surely have a winner.

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that truly is one of the most insensitive, but at the same time brilliant ideas going.

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Re: with a public api...

Great idea. Of course, xkcd beat you to it... :-)

http://xkcd.com/873/

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Did Austin Powers beat xkcd to it?

http://www.the-back-row.com/index.php/2011/02/12/deleted-henchmen-scenes-from-austin-powers

"Deleted scenes"? I think I saw 'em in the British TV showing. Maybe there were more of them.

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Grab your Steam SDKs to Left 4 Dead 2...

...and get to it! This ought to be fun. Most of the game is ready, you only need the zombie names...

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Hmmm

"IDEAL FOR THE ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION IN A HURRY" - Anon revier.

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aye

a terry pratchet reader.

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Hmmm

I suppose if you're a trainee medium looking to practice the skills it might be a good thing but seems a tad ghoulish otherwise.

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Not quite what I expected

From the headline, I was expecting an app that helped you plan the perfect murder. Or give you the option to hire a local assasin through the in-app payment system.

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Or for bikers

It might give you a hint about places where you might want to slow down and not drive like a complete twat.

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warning signs

don't those warning signs for bikers, like "to die for", mean it's a good road and you should speed up?

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Or for drivers...

... it might give you a hint to actually *LOOK* for bikers instead of pulling out because you don't see any cars and then utter the pathetic cry of "Sorry, Mate, I Didn't See You"...

Bikers gerr

Maybe Bikers should stop hovering around my blind spot, pick one, overtake or stay behind me so I can see you! I keep thinking your trying to open the passenger door behind me...

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Car fu...

...opening the passenger door and forcing a biker (or pedestrian) through its window is called car fu, or the Toyota tripwire, if I remember correctly. Oh yes, here it is...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToyotaTripwire

So.... where is it then?

Are you going to tell us where to find it then? What platforms it runs on? Anything?

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Full app name?

Is it called Death App or App of Death? Or something else entirely? What am I meant to do, guess?

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"App of Death" already taken

See the boys in Redmond for that one.

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Killer app?

(Sorry.)

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where to find ...

http://apps.mobilenationhq.com/deathapp

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Oh goodness...

It produces a web app too...brrr...I'll stick to Basic4Android

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Thanks...

...For the link...Now I have to look into what "mobilenationhq" is all about...having just about bought the idea of Basic4Android...hmmm

The notion of developing an app in a browser freaks me....google App Factory...brrr...

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Any chance of some incidental information?

Last time I looked the Reg was a tech site...

So would it be too much to ask to have some basic information, like what PLATFORMS does it support and can we have a LINK to the product/site?

IT Angle

More details

It appears that this mobilenation thing supports iOS and Android only.

See that, Reg hacks? It's called research.

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