helpsauce.com is a way to associate trends in social media updates with emerging crises, so that when looking at a map of a particular crisis area, the user can get relevant updates. 

Progress RHOK3 Redmond

Able to hit a specific disaster primarily by geographic proximity and also disaster name (#rhoksea) or Tweet (!help, !sos, ptlboom).

url: helpsauce.com (still need hosting setup)

code repository established: github

initial api: (api.helpsauce.com) is operational and public 

database: (helpsauce.iriscouch.com) is set up

demo: running on local machine, but the api is aliased to use the live api (currently only sourcing Twitter api, with plans for including other social networking sources, such as geoloqi.com)