{"id":15100,"date":"2010-01-22T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=15100"},"modified":"2010-01-22T01:01:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T09:01:49","slug":"torontos-xtremelabs-develops-help-for-haiti-app","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/torontos-xtremelabs-develops-help-for-haiti-app","title":{"rendered":"Toronto&#8217;s XtremeLabs develops Help for Haiti App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the human tragedy in Haiti occured last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/technology-and-social-media-play-part-in-helping-haiti\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>people<\/strong><\/a>, companies, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogto.com\/tech\/2010\/01\/toronto_tech_community_bands_together_to_help_haiti\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>organizations <\/strong><\/a>have come together to lend a helping hand.&nbsp; Or app&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobihand.com\/upload\/082\/48082\/screenshot160.gif\" alt=\"haiti\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/crackberry.com\/helphaiti\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Crackberry.com<\/strong><\/a>, Toronto App Developer XtremeLabs has partnered with MTV and Crackberry to develop a Help Haiti app.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the wake of the tragic earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti, the great folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtremelabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">XtremeLabs<\/a> in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crackberry.com\/\">CrackBerry.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a> have put together the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/software.crackberry.com\/product.asp?id=48082\">Help Haiti app for BlackBerry Smartphones<\/a><\/strong>. The Help Haiti app makes it easy to donate to charities in both the USA and Canada that are working hard to help in Haiti&#8217;s relief and recovery. <span class=\"content\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"content\">We spoke with Xtreme Labs Vice-President, Farhan Thawar.&nbsp; He explained that the aim of the application is three-fold:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Raise awareness and provide information to users through the various social networking tools (Twitter, Flickr, Google News)<\/li>\n<li>Use the reach of the mobile platform to raise funds for the organizations doing work to help support and rebuild after the events in Haiti.&nbsp;The application provides a one stop donation platform to all the SMS shortcodes in North America to the various relief organizations<\/li>\n<li>Promote the MTV fund raising effort (MTV telethon airing Saturday)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Xtreme Labs created this application to support the relief efforts and after noticing a need for consumers to be well informed of the various charities and organization supporting relief efforts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Charities both in Canada and the US will receive the donations.&nbsp; In Canada, through a partnership with Rogers, funds will be dispersed to the Salvation Army, Plan Canada, and World Vision Canada.&nbsp; In the States, there are a dozen charities involved including Habitat for Humanity, Clinton Foundation Haiti Relief Fund and Oxfam America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the human tragedy in Haiti occured last week, people, companies, and organizations have come together to lend a helping hand.&nbsp; Or app&#8230; According to Crackberry.com, Toronto App Developer XtremeLabs has partnered with MTV and Crackberry to develop a Help Haiti app. In the wake of the tragic earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":15102,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-15100","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/15100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/15100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}