At Instivate, our work developing Neighborlogs community news sites has helped us create low cost, powerful sites for larger independent news and information efforts. One of these sites is SeattleCrime. It's a fantastic city news site run by a pro journalist and powered by Instivate technology. We're extremely proud to announce an exciting new component of the site -- the SeattleCrime iPhone App.

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Developed in conjunction with mobile partner Purple Robots, the app showcases many of the tenets of our news and info delivery philosophy -- and, of course, the city's crime news flow keeps things interesting with great stories. Here is what the app does:

• Continuously maps the latest emergency calls across the city
• Mixes in original reporting from SeattleCrime and Neighborlogs Seattle community news blogs
• Is location aware so you can fire it up and find out what those sirens near you are about.

The SeattleCrime app is the kind of thing we love to build. Useful to anybody who's ever seen a cop car race by and wonder what is going on as well as the full-time information gatherers we hope will add the app to their arsenal of news collecting tools.

And that's just the start. We look forward to growing the app in the same spirit that powers all of our technology by bringing great innovation to the collection and sharing of community news.