Who and what makes act.ly possible

Act.ly is coded and run by Jim Gilliam (@jgilliam), designed by Jesse Haff (@slowdive), and built on a variety of amazing tools and web services, including:

Twitter, of course.
Ruby on Rails, TwitterAuth and Geokit
VoteSmart and MobileCommons for free U.S. legislative district info and mapping
USC GIS Research Lab for free census block mapping
Google Maps for pretty maps and free geocoding
Heroku and Amazon Web Services for hosting and scaling in the cloud
Klout and Topsy for Twitter reputation metrics.
BackTweets for finding act.ly links re-shortened by bit.ly.
Chartbeat for real time stats and New Relic for free performance monitoring

It takes a village, as they say.

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@OneSimpleFact

Wow. Brilliant.

@cvvalencia

stroke of genius.

@Mlsif

Twitter comes of age
as an advocacy tool.

@PolicyLink

This. Is. Awesome.

@MattOrtega

okay, so i rlly love act.ly

@StacyMonk